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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