Manchester Geometry Seminar 2008/2009.

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 12-3pm in Frank Adams Room (with a lunch break, the time of which may vary). See details here.

• October 2:
  Dr Theodore Voronov, (University of Manchester): Differential forms and higher Poisson brackets
• October 9:
  Prof. Vladimir Bavula, (University of Sheffield): The Jacobian map, the Jacobian group, and the group of automorphisms of the Grassmann algebra
• October 16:
  Dr Ivan Cheltsov, (University of Edinburgh): Einstein metrics and birational automorphisms
• October 23:
  Dr Miguel Rodríguez-Olmos, (University of Manchester): Gauge equivalence and conserved quantities for Lagrangian systems on Lie algebroids
• October 30:
  Prof. Anatoly Neishtadt, (Loughborough University): On stability loss delay for dynamical bifurcations
• November 6: No seminar (reading week)
• November 13:
  Dr Taras Panov, (Moscow State University): Cohomological rigidity in toric topology
• November 20:
  Prof. Anatol Odzijewicz, (University of Białystok): Quantization of non-compact Riemann surfaces and spectral analysis
• November 27:
  Dr Paul Mitchener, (University of Sheffield): Coarse geometry, cell complexes, and connections with positive scalar curvature
• December 4:
  Prof. Victor Buchstaber, (Steklov Mathematical Institute and University of Manchester): The heat equations and the sigma-function of the universal genus two curve
• December 11:
  Prof. Harry Braden, (University of Edinburgh): Cyclic monopoles, Toda and Ramanujan