University of Edinburgh
School of Mathematics



Scottish Topology Seminars

Spring 2007

Wednesday, 23rd May, 10AM - 5PM, ICMS
Maxwell Institute Colloquium on Conformal Field Theory and Topology
10.00--11.00 Dan Freed (Texas)
Pions and generalized cohomology Abstract
11.30--12.30 Vassily Gorbounov (Aberdeen)
Overview of the chiral de Rham complex
14.30--15.30 Peter Teichner (Berkeley)
Quantum Field Theory and Generalized Cohomology, Part I
16.00-17.00 Stephan Stolz (Notre Dame)
Quantum Field Theory and Generalized Cohomology, Part II
Organized by Andrew Ranicki, Richard Szabo and Constantin Teleman.
Participants. Please email a.ranicki@ed.ac.uk if you wish to attend, as space is limited.


Friday, 18th May, 4.10PM, Room 4312, JCMB
Peter Teichner (Berkeley)
Four-manifolds with Baumslag-Solitar fundamental groups


Friday, 11th May, 4.10PM, Room 4312, JCMB
Erik Pedersen (Copenhagen)
TOP/PL via bounded topology


Friday, 4th May, 2.30-3.30PM and 4-5PM, ICMS
Tony Pantev (Penn)
Langlands Duality for Hitchin Systems
Visit supported by LMS.
Please email the local organizer Elizabeth Gasparim if you wish to attend, as space is limited.


Friday, 30th March, 4.10PM, Room 4312, JCMB
Cherry Kearton (Durham)
Branched cyclic covers of knots


Friday, 23rd March, 4.10PM, Room 4312, JCMB
Ivan Smith (Cambridge)
Exact Lagrangian submanifolds of cotangent bundles


Thursday, 8th March, 4.10PM, Room 4312, JCMB (CHANGE OF DATE AND TIME)
Richard Hepworth (Sheffield)
Chen-Ruan cohomology


Monday, 15th January, 2.30PM, Room 4311, JCMB
Marc Lackenby (Oxford)
The crossing number of composite knots
(Also a colloquium on Property Τ, 4.10PM, Room 6301, JCMB)

Autumn 2006

Tuesday, 28th November, 4.10PM, Room 4312, JCMB
Alexander Shumakovitch (George Washington University)
Khovanov Homology and its Torsion
Abstract

Thursday, 26th October, 3.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB
Johan Dupont (Arhus)
Gerbes, simplicial forms, and invariants for families of foliated bundles
Abstract

Friday, 13th October, 3.00PM, Room 7.01, David Hume Tower
Catharina Stroppel (Glasgow)
The idea of categorification, cobordisms and extended Khovanov homology

Wednesday, 27th September, 4.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB
Thorsten Eppelmann (Heidelberg)
Signature homology and symmetric L-theory

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