Manchester Geometry Seminar and Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar 2014/2015: Semester 2 *Time:* Thursdays 4.15pm (for the *Manchester Geometry Seminar*) Thursdays 3.15pm (for the *Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar*) *Location:* The *Frank Adams Room 1* (Room 1.212) in the *Alan Turing building*. 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 3.15pm and have a break around 4pm. * *February 5: Manchester Geometry Seminar. 4.15pm, FA1. Dr Theodore Voronov , (University of Manchester ): Adjoints for nonlinear operators and L∞-bialgebroids * * *February 12: Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar. 3.30pm, Horace Lamb Room (1.204). * */Dr Theodore Voronov: / Adjoints for nonlinear operators and L∞-bialgebroids. II * * February 19: /no seminar/ * *March 5: Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar. 3.30pm, FA 1. * */Dr Hovhannes Khudaverdian: / A non-linear generalisation of the Cayley transformation for the group of symplectomorphisms * * March 12: /No seminar/ * *March 19: Manchester Geometry Seminar. 4.15pm, FA 1. Prof. Marta Mazzocco , (Loughborough University ): Laminations of Riemann surfaces with cusped boundaries * * *Monday March 23: Manchester Geometry Seminar (extra session). 4pm, Alan Turing_G.205. Dr Aneta Sliżewska , (University of Białystok ): The dual Atiyah sequence * Easter break: Monday 23 March to Friday 10 April. [Gregorian or Western Easter: Sunday 5 April; Julian or Orthodox Easter: Sunday 12 April = 30 March Old Style (Julian).] * *April 16: Manchester Geometry Seminar. 4.15pm, FA 1. Prof. Arkady Vaintrob , (University of Oregon ): Invariants and representations of the "strange" Lie superalgebras * * April 23, 30: /To be announced/ * *May 7: Manchester Geometry Seminar. 4.15pm, FA 1. Dr Anna Felikson , (University of Durham ): Cluster algebras of finite mutation type * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~tv/seminar.html| /Ted Voronov. 28 February (13 March) 2015 /