Manchester Geometry Seminar 2007/2008.

Visit the main page to find more information about the seminar, in particular, programmes of talks for previous years.

We meet about 3.45 to collect tea, then take it to the seminar room, where there will be biscuits. Each lecture begins at 4pm.

Related seminar:
Informal Research Seminar on Geometry and Mathematical Physics
Special programme:
Double and Multiple Structures in Standard and Super Geometry
Thursdays 2-3.45pm in Frank Adams Room. See details here.

• February 7:
  Dr Mikhail Feigin, (University of Glasgow): Around quantum Calogero-Moser system
• February 14:
  Prof. Tomasz Brzezinski, (University of Swansea): Contramodules
• February 21:
  Prof. Victor Buchstaber, (Steklov Mathematical Institute and University of Manchester): Combinatorics of simple polytopes and differential equations
• February 28:
  Dr Alexander Odesskii, (University of Manchester): Integrable Lagrangians and modular forms
• March 6:
  Dr Vasilisa Shramchenko, (University of Oxford): Frobenius manifolds, Hurwitz spaces and Riemann-Hilbert problems
• March 13:
  Dr Gil Cavalcanti , (University of Oxford): Blow-up and blow-down in generalized complex geometry

• April 10:
  Dr Alexey Bolsinov, (University of Loughborough): Proof of the Mischenko-Fomenko conjecture
• April 17:
  Dr Hovhannes Khudaverdian, (University of Manchester): Berezinians and rational functions
• April 24. No seminar: Orthodox Great Thursday. [Orthodox Easter: Sunday 27 April / 14 April old style]
• May 1:
  Dr Dmitry Roytenberg, (Utrecht University). There will be two talks, and tea served during the break:
  1. Multiderivations on vector bundles and a deformation complex for Courant algebroids
     (Time: 2pm, location: Frank Adams Room.)
  2. Differential graded manifolds, simplicial presheaves and higher Lie theory
     (Regular time and location.)
• May 8:
  Dr John Gibbons, (Imperial College London): Hamiltonian structure of reductions of the Benney system
• May 15:
  Prof. Thomas Nevins, (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Mirabolic Langlands duality and the Quantum Calogero-Moser system