Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Scottish Topology Seminars
Summer 2000
Tuesday, 11th July, 2.30PM, Room 4312, JCMB
W. Browder (Princeton)
Constructing group actions
Tuesday, 4th July, 2.30PM, Room 4312, JCMB
B. Hughes (Vanderbilt)
The approximate tubular neighbourhood theorem
Thursday, 25th May, 2.30PM, Room 4312, JCMB
F. Quinn (Blacksburg)
Subexponential groups in 4-manifold topology
Tuesday, 25th May, 4PM, Room 4312, JCMB
I. Grojnowski (Cambridge)
Rigid structures on the symmetric group
(Joint Geometry/Topology seminar)
Tuesday, 16th May, 4PM, Room 4312, JCMB
Shicheng Wang (University of Peking and
Max Planck Bonn)
Maps of non-zero degree between manifolds
(Joint Geometry/Topology seminar)
Friday, 12th May, 2.30PM, Room 5215, JCMB
J. Roberts (Edinburgh)
Is knot theory really K-theory?
Friday, 12th May, 4.15PM, Room 5215, JCMB
D. Sheiham (Edinburgh)
Noncommutative characteristic polynomials
Spring 2000
Friday, 28th January, 2.30PM, Room 6, Appleton Tower
THE TALK BY F.T.FARRELL HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Friday, 4th February, 2.30PM, Room 4312, JCMB
S. Willerton (Strasbourg)
On Rozansky-Witten weight systems
Friday, 11th February, 2.30PM, Room 6, Appleton Tower
T. Nye (Edinburgh)
The topology of periodic instantons
Wednesday, 15th March, 4PM, Room 4312, JCMB
P. Eccles (Manchester)
Double point surfaces of immersions
Autumn 1999
Thursday, 14th October, 4.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB
V. Buchstaber (Moscow)
Groups of polynomial transformations,
non-formal symplectic manifolds and Massey products
(Joint with Geometry Seminar)
Friday, 22nd October, 2.30PM, Room 2D, Appleton Tower
G. Arone (Aberdeen)
Calculus of functors: From homotopy groups of spheres to spaces
of embeddings
Friday, 12th November, 4PM, Room 5215, JCMB
M. Gross (Warwick)
Topological mirror symmetry
(Joint with Geometry Seminar)
Wednesday, 17th November, 2.30PM, Room 4312, JCMB
O. Cornea (Lille)
Rigidity of the Morse complex, and non-smoothable Poincare complexes
(Visit supported by LMS)
Friday, 26 November, 2.30PM, Room 4312, JCMB
A. Pazhitnov (Nantes)
Nonabelian Lefschetz zeta functions for dynamical systems
Friday, 3rd December, 2.30PM, Room 4312, JCMB
J. Przytycki (Washington)
Algebra situs: an example from knot theory
Scottish Topology 1998-1999
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