UO Math Dept Geometry-Topology Seminar Fall 95-Winter 97

Here is a list of the speakers and titles for Fall 95 through Winter 97 of the UO Math Department Geometry Topology Seminar of the Mathematics Department of the University of Oregon (Eugene Oregon 97403) You can also consult the current schedule

Tue. Oct. 3 1995: Peter Gilkey "The Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg Conjecture"

Tue. Oct. 10 1995: Hal Sadofsky Determining $E_*(BG)$ from $E^*(BG)$ when $E$ is periodic and complex oriented.

Tue. Oct. 17 1995: Boris Botvinnik The universal Chern and Pontrjagin characteristic classes

Tue. Oct. 24 1995: Egidio Barrera-Yanez "When do spheres admit almost complex structures?"

Tue. Oct. 31 1995: A. Granas "Geometric approach to degree and fixed point index"

Tue. Nov. 7 1995: Jim Isenberg Strong Cosmic Censorship

Tue. Nov. 14 1995: Stana Nikcevic (University of Belgrade) Title: Curvature and representations of the unitary group

Tue. Nov. 21 1995: Jon Wiens "The Topology of Braid Arrangements."

Tue. Nov. 28 1995: Jeff Boersema "Clifford Algebras and Vector Fields on Spheres"

Tue. Jan. 16 1996 Christine Escher (OSU): "Minimal isometric immersions"

Tue. Jan. 23 1996 Richard Koch (On a paper of Milnor)

Tue. Jan. 30 1996 Chris Guenther "The Harnak Inequality for Ricci Flow"

Tue. Feb. 6 1996 Seon-Bu Kim (Chonnam Ntl Univ South Korea) "Myers type theorems on space-times"

Tue. Feb. 13 1996 John Berglund "How to tile the plane"

Tue. Feb. 20 1996 Mike Hitchman "Using surfaces to solve decision problems."

Saturday Feb. 24 . The winter meeting Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar . MSRI

Tue. Feb. 27 1996 Hal Sadofsky "Adams Spectral Sequences."

Tue. March 5 1996 Hal Sadofsky, "More on the Adams Spectral Sequence"

Tue. March 12 1996 Ann Ritchey "A Remarkable Symplectic Structure"

Tue. April 9 1996 Juha Pohjanpelto "Generalized Conservation Laws of the Frobenius Conditions"

Tue. April 16 1996 Sonja Schirmer "Smale Horseshoe Maps".

Tue. April 23 1996 Chris Phillips Dixmier-Douady classes and continuous trace C* algebras not isomorphic to their opposites.

Tue. April 30 1996 John Leahy "Generic singular symplectic structures"

Saturday/Sunday May 4/5 Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar at Seattle

Tue. May 7 1996 Lew Ward "Life without second countability"
See also: Oregon State University: Robert Osserman "The shape of the Universe"

Tuesday May 14 1996 NO MEETING!

Friday May 17 1996 Special meeting: 1600-1700 Mark Mahowald (Northwestern University and University of Seattle) on "Brown-Comenetz duality and Spanier-Whitehead duality.". Deady 210

The spring meeting of the Cascade Topology Seminar was Saturday-Sunday May 18-19 1996 at the University of Oregon.

Tue. May 21 1996 Robert Brunner (Wayne State) "Connective K-theory for some finite groups"

Friday May 24 1996 John Greenlees of Sheffield University ""Rational equivariant cohomology theories." Special Seminar at 1400; location TBA

Tue May 28 1996 Mike Dyer TBA

Tue June 4 1996 D. Nishimoto "Vassiliev's Invariants and Cord Diagrams"

Tue October 8 1996 Paul Hjorth of the (Technical University of Lyngby in Denmark) "Finite Metric Spaces of Strictly Negative Type"

Tue October 15 1996 Robert Sterioff TBA

Tue October 22 1996 Richard Koch "On another paper of Milnor"

Tue October 29 1996 Jeff Boersema "Vector fields on spheres part II"

Tuesday November 5 1996 Roger Ahders On the paper "The 3 torus is Kervaire" by Duncan and Howie (tentative)

Saturday November 9 Fall Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar (Oregon State University).

Tuesday November 26 1996 Egidio Barrera-Yanez "The eta invariant and the connective K-theory of spherical space form groups"

Tuesday January 14 1997 Peter Gilkey Metrics of positive Ricci curvature on principal bundles

Tuesday January 21 1997 JeongHyeong Park (Honam University Korea) "The geometry of Riemannian submersions"

Tuesday January 28 1997 Dae Y. Song (Sunchon National Univ, South Korea) "Using the square root of the Laplacian in mathematical physics"

Thursday January 30 1997 Matthew Ando "The homotopy theory of the Witten Genus (or how I survived my encounter with MO<8>)"

Tuesday February 4 Hong-Jong Kim (Seuol National University) Derived Manifolds and Characteristic Classes Abstract

Saturday February 8 1997 Winter Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar (MSRI, Berkeley CA)

Thursday February 13 (special time) 11:00-11:50 102 Deady Evans M. Harrell (Georgia Institute of Technology) "Why are the most stable phase boundaries round?"

Tuesday February 18 Hal Sadofsky Title: "Morava K-theory of loop spaces and Witt vectors"

Tuesday February 25 Boris Botvinnik Title: K theory with singularities and positive scalar curvature

Tuesday March 4 Sonja Schirmer Title: "Optimal Control of Dynamical Systems"

Tuesday March 11 Lorenz Title: CLASSIFICATION OF HOLONOMIES OF AFFINE CONNECTIONS

Tuesday April 1 Chris Guenther Title: "The heat kernel on manifolds with time varying metric"

Tuesday April 8 Lew Ward "The Konigsberg Bridge Problem for Peano Continua"

Thursday April 10 Ivan Avramidi Title: Covariant methods for computation of the heat kernel Deady 104 (note special time and location)

spring meeting of the Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar at UBC Sat-Sun April 12-13

11:00 April 12 Yat-Sun Poon: Deformation of Hypercomplex Structures
13:00 April 12 Richard Wentworth: TBA
16:00 April 12 Rafe Mazzeo: Local and global aspects of some geometric moduli spaces
10:00 April 13 Steven B Bradlow: A new look at the vortex equations: dimensional reduction without symmetry
11:15 April 13 Robin Graham: A Blow-up Approach to Edge-of-the-Wedge Theorems

Tuesday April 15 C. Phillips "Analytic index for Z-k manifolds"

Thursday April 17 L. Del Riego "Non-linear Sprays and Connections on Semi-Riemann Manifolds" (Special time - Held in 104 DEA)

Spring 1997

Tuesday April 22 J. Boersema "Self conjugate K theory"
Tuesday April 29 Tan Zhang Title: "The spinnor spanner"
Tuesday May 6 Jim Isenberg: Title "Is Constant Mean Curvature a Good Choice of Time for Solutions of Einstein's Equations?"
Tuesday May 13 1997 Michiel van den Berg (Bristol UK) "Heat content asymptotics for the s-adic von Koch snowflake"
Tuesday May 20 P. Gilkey "Manifolds whose curvature operator has constant eigenalues" (joint work with J. Leahy and H. Sadofsky)
Tuesday May 27 Mike Hitchman Title TBA
Tuesday June 3 Dev Sinha (Stanford University) On the Structure of Unitary Equivariant Bordism Rings
Thursday June 5 (special time) Dusan Repovs (University of Ljubjana): On actions of p-adic integers on manifolds: the Lipschitz case Abstract of talk.

Spring meeting of the Cascade Topology Seminar at Oregon State:

James Cannon, June 5th, Dehn's algorithm revisited: building machines
    to match our algorithms.
James Cannon: June 6th, Flattening orange peels in the plane:
     cubulated 3-manifolds and their  spaces at infinity.
James Cannon, June 7th, The Hawaiian Earing:
     the Geometric Group theory of 1-dimensional spaces
Bruce Kleiner, June 7th Spaces with  nonpositive curvature and
    higher dimensional analogs of (Gromov) hyperbolicity.
Reinhard Schultz, June 7th Cartesian powers of  3-manifolds.
Allan Sieradski, June 7th Group theory for wild topology.
Fred Cohen, June 8th, TBA
Dusan Repovs, June 8th, Chogoshvili conjecture - past and present

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