Geometry Seminar

Program of fall term 2003/04

October 8 No lecture because of the Confernce celebrating W. Schmidt's 70's birthday
October 15 Franz Kamber (University of Ilinois): "Fourier-Mukai Transforms and Foliations" Abtract
October 22 Peter Michor: "Riemannian geometries on spaces of plane curves" Abtract
October 29 Stefan Haller: "Reidemeister torsion, Ray-Singer torsion and the Cheeger-Müller theorem" Abtract
November 5 Andreas Cap: "Automorphism groups of parabolic geometries" Abtract
November 12 Dusan Repovs (University of Ljubljana): "On the Hilbert-Smith conjecture and related problems" Abtract
Thursday, November 20
15:00 - 16:00, ESI lecture hall
David Mumford (Brown University): "Riemannian metrics on the Space of 2D Shapes: theory and computer exploration"
November 26 Alexander A. Boukhgueim (University of Vienna): Defense of the thesis "Numerical Algorithms for Attenuated Tomography in Medicine and Industry" Abtract
December 3 No lecture because of the general assembly of the Institute of Mathematics
December 10 Mark Losik (University of Saratov): "Polarizations in classical invariant theory" Abtract
December 17 Yurii Neretin (ITEP Moscow): "On Stasheff, Kapranov, and Karpelevich polyhedra"
January 14 Pawel Nurowski (Warsaw University): "G2 Cartan connection associated with equation z'=F(x,y,y',y'',z)" Abstract
January 21 No lecture because of the Winter school in Srni
January 28 Michael Eastwood (University of Adelaide): "Higher symmetries of the Laplacian" Abstract
February 11 Armin Rainer (Wien): Defense of the thesis "Choosing roots of polynomials smoothly and lifting smooth curves over invariants" Abstract