Manchester Geometry Seminar 2003/2004

Each lecture begins at 4pm and must end shortly after 5pm. We have tea and biscuits before the lecture, 3.30-4.00 at Brian Hartley Room (6th floor), and then move to the seminar room (Room 1.08). Attention: Tea and coffee will have to be in 108 before the seminar throughout March (because of the Year 13 visiting days). Visit the main page to find more information about the seminar.

• February 12:
  Ms Apala Majumdar, (University of Bristol): Tangent unit-vector fields in convex polyhedra
• February 19:
  Prof Alexander Veselov, (Loughborough University): Coxeter group actions on the complement of hyperplanes
• February 26: No seminar
• March 4: (Joint seminar with the K-Theory Day)
  Prof Guyan Robertson, (University of Newcastle): Operator algebras associated with discrete groups acting on buildings and their K-theory
• March 11:
  Prof Boris Zilber, (University of Oxford): Zariski geometries: from classical to quantum
• March 18:
  Prof Nigel Ray, (University of Manchester): Geometry and real K-theory of Bott towers
• March 25:
  Dr James Montaldi, (UMIST): Relative loop spaces and relative periodic orbits
  Easter break: 29 March -- 18 April.
  Latin and Orthodox Easter fall on the same day: Sunday 11 April n.s. ( = 29 March o. s.)
• April 22:
  Mr Daniel Singh, (University of Sheffield): A new description for the moduli space of stable n pointed curves of genus zero
• April 29:
  Prof Roger J. Plymen, (University of Manchester): The extended quotient versus the ordinary quotient in noncommutative geometry
• May 6: seminar goes to the movies (Room 2.17):
  Three of the Millennium Prize Problems - Video of a lecture given by John Tate
• May 13:
  Prof Victor Snaith, (University of Southampton): Stiefel-Whitney classes and local symplectic root numbers
• May 20:
  Dr Frank Neumann, (University of Leicester): On the algebraic K-theory of the category of unstable modules over the Steenrod algebra