Scottish Topology 1995-1996
Summer 1996
Friday, 26th April, 2.30PM, Room 8, Appleton Tower
P.Turner (Aberdeen)
Rational Morava E-theory and CS^0
Thursday, 9th May, 2.30PM, Room 8, Appleton Tower
S.Cappell (New York)
Euler-MacLaurin summation in many variables and the topology
of singular varieties
(Visit supported by LMS)
Monday, 24th June, 3.30PM,
ICMS 14, India Street
M.Weiss (Notre Dame)
Applications of index theory without operators
Tuesday, 25th June, 3.30PM,
ICMS 14, India Street
M.Postnikov (Moscow)
On the so-called Smirnov theory of the higher homotopy groups of spheres
Spring 1996
Monday, 5 February, 3.30PM, Room 5215, JCMB
(Edinburgh University colloquium)
C.T.C.Wall (Liverpool)
The geometry of discriminants
Friday, 23rd February, 2.30PM, Room 8, Appleton Tower
J.-C.Hausmann (Geneva)
The topology and symplectic geometry of polygon spaces
(Visit supported by LMS)
Friday, 1st March, 2.30PM, Room 8, Appleton Tower
M. Schwarz (Cambridge)
Floer homology and the deformed cup-product
Autumn 1995
Friday, 20 October, 2.30PM, Room 8, Appleton Tower
C. Kearton (Durham)
Algebraic knots increase with dimension
Thursday, 9 November, 4PM, Room 4312, JCMB
(joint with Geometry Seminar)
A.O. Kuku (ICTP, Trieste)
Higher K-theory
of orders, group-rings and modules over 'EI' categories
Friday, 8 December, 2.30PM, Room 8, Appleton Tower
W. Harvey (King's College, London)
Drawings, triangles and curves in moduli space