Thirty-fourth meeting of the Transpennine Topology Triangle

Department of Pure Mathematics
University of Sheffield
Monday, May 20th 2002

This will be a working meeting. There will therefore be the usual time for participant discussion. Talks will take place in Room J11, on the sixth floor of the Hicks Building.

Programme

11.00 am: Coffee in I15
11.30 am: Dietrich Notbohm (Leicester)
``Homology decompositions of spaces''.
2.30 pm: Jonathan Scott (Aberdeen)
``Cell E_{\infty}-algebra models for loop space cohomology''
3.30 pm: Tea in I15
4.00 pm: Kostya Feldman (Edinburgh)
``Classification problems for symplectic manifolds supporting Hamiltonian torus actions''

We expect to go to eat nearby, soon after the last talk.

Abstracts

KF:``Classification problems for symplectic manifolds supporting Hamiltonian torus actions'' In the talk we discuss recent progress in classification of symplectic manifolds supporting Hamiltonian actions of a high--dimensional torus. We explain how methods of complex cobordism theory can be used for further development of this area.

Anyone who wishes to participate is welcome: we shall operate the usual arrangements for assistance with travel expenses. We expect to assemble for tea and coffee in I15, Floor 5, from 11.00 am until the first talk. Each lecture will take place in Room J11 of the Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield.
Tea and Coffee will be served in the common room I15.
For further information email John Greenlees j.greenlees@sheffield.ac.uk, (or John Hunton jrh7@mcs.le.ac.uk or Nige Ray nige@ma.man.ac.uk) if you are interested, so we can make approximately the right amount of tea and coffee.

How to get there

From the rail station, you can catch the Number 60 bus, and get off where it crosses the ring road. Or take the supertram to the University stop. There is more information at School of Mathematics and Statistics Homepage

The meeting is partially supported by a Scheme 3 grant from the London Mathematical Society.

Escape routes