University of Edinburgh
School of Mathematics


Scottish Topology Seminars

Summer 2003

Tuesday, 23rd September, 4.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB
Ian Hambleton (McMaster)
Actions on products of spheres

Tuesday, 15th July, 4.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB
Frank Quinn (VPI)
Homology manifolds

Friday, 13th June, 4.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB
Oliver Renaudin (Sheffield)
Spectra for model categories

Friday, 9th May, 4.30PM, Room 4312, JCMB
Erik Pedersen (Binghamton and Munster)
Smoothing loop spaces
(Visited supported by LMS)

Friday, 9th May, 2.00PM, Room 6203, JCMB
Paul Baum (Penn State)
The index of elliptic operators and K-theory for group C*-algebras

Tuesday, 6th May and Thursday, 8th May, 4.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB
Paul Baum (Penn State)
The index of elliptic operators and K-theory for group C*-algebras I.,II.
(A minicourse)

Thursday, 1st May, 2.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB (CHANGE OF DAY AND TIME)
J.A.Seade (UNAM)
Orthogonal actions and conjugation in complex projective spaces

Friday, 25th April, 3.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB
Diarmuid Crowley (Penn State)
Quadratic modules in surgery theory

Spring 2003

Thursday, 20th February, 4.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB
Kostya Feldman (Edinburgh)
Topological quaternion determinants

Friday, 31st January, 3.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB
Martin Bridson (Imperial)
Aspherical manifolds, non-positive curvature and decidability
Abstract

Thursday, 16th January, 4.00PM, Room 3317, JCMB
Michael Atiyah (Edinburgh)
Von Neumann algebras in topology II.
(Jointly with the Geometry Seminar)

Tuesday, 14th January, 4.40PM, Room 6, Appleton Tower
Guido Mislin (ETH & Newton Institute)
The Bass Conjecture and acyclic groups
(Jointly with the Algebra Seminar)

Friday, 10th January, 4.00PM, Room 3317, JCMB
Michael Atiyah (Edinburgh)
Von Neumann algebras in topology I.
The first of two talks giving a historical introduction to the applications of von Neumann algebras to topology via K-theory, index theory and L^2-cohomology.
(Jointly with the Geometry Seminar)

Autumn 2002

Friday, 29th November, 3.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB
Thomas Huettemann (Aberdeen)
The finiteness of total cofibres

Friday, 15th November, 2.30PM, Room 6207, JCMB
Simon Willerton (Sheffield)
A look at the classical Chern-Simons invariant

Friday, 25th October, 2.30PM, Room 4312, JCMB
Rick Jardine (Western Ontario and INI)
Cubical homotopy theory
Abstract

Friday, 18th October, 3.00PM, Room 2D, Appleton Tower
Aidan Schofield (Bristol)
Stranger duality
(Jointly with Algebra Seminar)