24 seminar

We'll go through classic papers from across as broad a part of mathematics as we can manage. We meet on Fridays from 3-5; one person will present the paper, and be told 24 hours before what it is they are speaking on. A bit like non-academic life, I'm told.

First Semester

• 30.9.11 "The characters of the finite general linear group" by J.A.Green (Iain)
• 7.10.11 "The upper bound conjecture and Cohen Macaulay rings" by R.Stanley (Rollo)
• 21.10.11 "Convexity and commuting hamiltonians" by M.Atiyah (Will)
• 28.10.11 "The Grothendieck duality theorem via Bousfield's techniques and Brown representability" by A.Nemman (Guillaume)
• 4.11.11 "Euler class, Lefschetz numbers and vector fields" following Bredon's Algebraic Topology book (Joe)

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