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February 07, 2025
Friday, February 07
Transformation Groups Seminar
Time: 09:30
Speaker: Vladimir Gorchakov (Western)
Title: "An introduction to $RO(G)$-graded cohomology theories"
Room: MC 108

Abstract: n this talk, we will give an introduction to $RO(G)$-graded cohomology, which, in a certain sense, extends Bredon cohomology.

Graduate Seminar
Time: 15:30
Speaker: Siyuan Yu (Western)
Title: "The symplectic embeddings of closed balls into the complex projective plane $\mathbb{C}P^2$"
Room: MC 108

Abstract: In this presentation, we investigate the embeddings of five disjoint closed balls into the complex projective plane $\mathbb{C}P^2$. In 1985, Gromov found a new symplectic invariant called Gromov's invariant by studying the embedding of closed balls into a cylinder. This ground-breaking result opens a new era of the research of symplectic geometry. In this presentation, we explore the relationship between the homotopy type of the space of symplectic embeddings and the configuration space of $\mathbb{C}P^2$, focusing on the case of five balls.