Manchester Geometry Seminar 2004/2005.

(There is an accompanying postgraduate seminar: Geometry and Mathematical Physics)

Each lecture begins at 4pm. Visit the main page to find more information about the seminar.

• February 3:
  Dr Taras Panov, (Moscow State University): Torus graphs and simplicial posets
• February 10:
  Dr Denis Osipov, (Steklov Mathematical Institute): Multidimensional local fields and the Krichever correspondence for algebraic varieties
• February 17:
  Mr David Carter, (University of Manchester): Loop spaces of Bott towers
• Wednesday, February 23. Extra seminar session. Room G.15 Newman, 4pm.
  Dr Frank Loray, (Université de Rennes): Affine and projective structures on compact Riemann surfaces
• February 24:
  Prof John Rawnsley, (Warwick University): Smooth maps of star products
• March 3:
  Mr Mark Grant, (University of Manchester): Cobordism of immersions and self intersections

• March 10:
  Prof Fran Burstall, (University of Bath): Curved flats and conformal geometry
• March 17:
  Dr Oleg Chalykh, (University of Leeds): Ideals of the Weyl algebra and Calogero-Moser spaces

• April 14: (Change of date!)
  Mr Gábor Lippner, (Eötvös Loránd University): Characteristic numbers of multiple point manifolds (joint work with G. Braun)
• April 21:
  Prof Alexander Helemskii, (Moscow State University): Quantum functional analysis: non-matricial approach
• April 28: No seminar. Orthodox Great Thursday (Orthodox Easter: 18 April/1 May)
• May 5:
  Mr Adrian Dobson, (University of Manchester): Real K-theory of Thom complexes
• May 12. Two talks:
  • 2.30pm: Dr Alexander Odesski, (Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik): Elliptic algebras
  • 4pm: Dr Marta Mazzocco, (University of Manchester): Canonical structures of the Schlesinger equations
• May 19: No seminar
• May 26:
  Prof Nikolai Tyurin, (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research): The Seiberg-Witten equation and the space of hermitian triples