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Department of Mathematics and Statistics




Scottish Topology Seminars

Summer 2001

Friday, 31st August, 2.30PM, Room 4312, JCMB
S. Cappell (NYU)
Holonomy and the invariants of stratified spaces

Tuesday, 28th August, 4.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB
B. Hughes (Vanderbilt)
h-cobordisms of stratifolds

Wednesday, 11th July, 4.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB
(Note date change)
F. Quinn (Blacksburg)
The construction of homology manifolds by the splitting of quadratic Poincare complexes

Tuesday, 26th June, 4.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB
A. Neeman (Canberra)
Determinants, K_1 and derived categories

Friday, 11th May, 2.30PM, Room 6, Appleton Tower
M. Crabb (Aberdeen)
Polynomial loops in spheres

Thursday, 19th April, 4.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB
B. Oliver (Paris)
Homotopy finite groups

Spring 2001

Friday, 6 April, 2.30PM, Room 4312, JCMB
T. Panov (Manchester)
Combinatorial aspects of torus actions
Abstract

Friday, 23rd February, 2.30PM, Room 4312, JCMB
E. Rees (Edinburgh)
The Gelfand map,symmetric products and invariants of the symmetric group

Friday, 16th February, 2.30PM, Room 4312, JCMB
K. Feldman (Edinburgh)
Chern numbers of Chern submanifolds

Autumn 2000

Thursday, 5th October, 4.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB
V. Buchstaber (Moscow)
An algebraic approach to complex cobordism

Thursday, 19th October, 4.00PM, Room 4312, JCMB
L. Kauffman (Illinois)
Rational Tangles, Rational Knots and DNA
Abstract
(Jointly with Geometry Seminar)

Friday, 20th October, 2.30PM, Room 6, Appleton Tower
S. Willerton (Heriot Watt)
A knot theorist looks at the derived category of a manifold

Friday, 20th October, 4.30PM, Appleton Tower
L. Kauffman (Illinois)
Virtual Knot Theory
Abstract
(EMS Lecture)

Friday, 27th October, 2.30PM, Room 4312, JCMB
R. Geoghegan (Binghamton)
SL(2) actions on the hyperbolic plane
Abstract
(Visit supported by LMS)

Friday, 17th November, 2.30PM, Room 4312, JCMB
N. Nekrasov (Princeton and IHES)
Instantons and the eleventh dimension
(Jointly with the Edinburgh Mathematical Physics Group)

Friday, 8th December, 2.30PM, Room 4312, JCMB
K. Feldman (Edinburgh)
The Poincare-Hopf theorem for fibre bundles