Manchester Geometry Seminar
and
Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar

The two seminars are run in combination/ alternation. Visit the main page to find more information, in particular, programmes of talks for previous years. For the Manchester Geometry Seminar, we meet about 3.50 for tea and biscuits; each lecture begins at 4.15pm in the seminar room FA 1. For the Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar, we start at 3pm in the seminar room FA 2; after a break around 4pm we move to the seminar room FA 1.

• February 10: Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar. 3pm, FA 2.
  Adam Biggs. The canonical pencil of differential operators of higher order on Rⁿ. Preliminary report.
• February 17: Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar. 3pm, FA 2.
  Adam Biggs. The canonical pencil of differential operators of higher order on Rⁿ. Preliminary report (continued).
• February 24: Manchester Geometry Seminar. 4.15pm, FA 1.
  Dr Theodore Voronov, (University of Manchester): Graded geometry and "non-linear" Lie algebroids
• March 3: Manchester Geometry Seminar. 4.15pm, FA 1.
  Prof. Victor Buchstaber, (Steklov Mathematical Institute and University of Manchester): Deformed Baker-Akhiezer function
• March 10: no seminar
• March 17: Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar. 3pm, FA 2.
  Adam Biggs. The canonical pencil of differential operators of higher order on Rⁿ. Preliminary report (continued).
• March 24: no seminar (university strike)
• March 31: Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar. 3pm, FA 2.
  Adam Biggs. The canonical pencil of differential operators of higher order on Rⁿ. Preliminary report (continued).
• April 7: Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar. 3pm, FA 2.
  Special Programme on Double and Multiple Structures
  Kirill Mackenzie: Dirac structures
  The name of Dirac is conjured with by a great many people. The Dirac structures in this talk were introduced by Liu, Weinstein and Xu in 1997. They are increasingly being taken as fundamental objects in various new approaches to geometry. The definition of a Dirac structure is not particularly difficult but, as Spivak said long ago of modern differential geometry in general, `it's just impossible to see why anyone would have thought of it.' I will aim to meet the Spivak complaint by approaching the subject through Poisson homogeneous spaces.
  

• May 5: Manchester Geometry Seminar. 4.15pm, FA 1.
  Prof. Wang Weiqiang, (University of Virginia): A super duality approach to the representation theory of Lie superalgebras
• May 12: Manchester Geometry Seminar. 4.15pm, FA 1.
  Prof. Andrey Lazarev, (University of Leicester): The master equation and variations on rational homotopy theory