Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Scottish Topology Seminars
Summer 1999
Wednesday, 17th June, 2.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB
(Joint with Geometry seminar)
A. Tyurin (Moscow)
On Bohr-Sommerfeld bases
Friday, 28 May, 4.00PM, Room 5327, JCMB
J. Roe (Penn State)
Amenability and the Novikov Conjecture
Hardy Lecture -- organized by LMS and EMS
Wednesday, 26 May, 4.30PM, Appleton Tower
D. McDuff (Stony Brook)
A survey of symplectic topology
Friday, 23 April, 2.30PM, Room 7, Appleton Tower
B. Oliver (Paris)
Free actions of finite groups on acyclic 2-complexes
Spring 1999
Friday, 26th February, 2.30PM, Room 5215, JCMB
A. Pazhitnov (Nantes)
The simple homotopy type of the Novikov complex and the zeta
function of the gradient flow
Friday, 19th February, 2.30PM, Room 5215, JCMB
J. Roberts (Edinburgh)
The Kirby calculus for manifolds with boundary
Friday, 29th January, 2.30PM, Room 7, Appleton Tower
N. Strickland (Sheffield)
The equivariant homotopy of toric varieties
Autumn 1998
Friday, 11th December, 2.30PM, Room 6, Appleton Tower
M. Lackenby (Cambridge)
The number of exceptional surgeries on a hyperbolic knot
Wednesday, 9th December, 5.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB
V. Snaith (Southampton)
Hurewicz images in BP and related homology theories
Friday, 6th November, 2.30PM, Room 2A.1, Appleton Tower
M. Weiss (MPI, Bonn)
Spaces of embeddings from a sheaf-theoretic point of view
Wednesday, 4th November, 4.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB
A. Szczepanski (Gdansk)
Some results on Fibonacci groups
Friday, 23rd October, 2.30PM, Room 7, Appleton Tower
R. Levi (Aberdeen)
Abstract
On self equivalences of p-completed classifying spaces
Tuesday, 20th October, 4.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB
(Joint with Geometry seminar)
D. Allcock (Harvard)
Braid pictures for certain Artin groups
Thursday, 15th October, 4.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB
(Joint with Geometry seminar)
M. Farber (Tel Aviv)
The geometry and topology of closed 1-forms
Friday, 9th October, 4.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB
V. Buchstaber (Moscow)
Torus actions on manifolds determined by polyhedra
Scottish Topology 1997-1998
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