UWO Mathematics Calendar

Week of December 06, 2015
Tuesday, December 08

Noncommutative Geometry

Time: 11:30
Room: MC 107
Speaker: (Western)
Title: Learning Seminar

We continue on: ---The index problem for elliptic PDE's, characteristic classes via Chern-Weil theory, ---Miraculous cancellations, Getzler's supersymmetric proof of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem, special cases: Gauss-Bonnet-Chern, Hirzebruch signature theorem, and Riemann-Roch.

 
Friday, December 11

Graduate Seminar

Time: 13:30
Room: MC 108
Speaker: Mitsuru Wilson (Western)
Title: Noncommutative Geometry in a nutshell

Noncommutative geometry was discovered by Alain Connes in the early 80's. In short, noncommutative geometry is based on a duality between the categories of algebra and geometry. A noncommutative space is thought of as the dual object to a noncommutative algebra. In my talk, I will discuss the ideas of noncommutative geometry and concepts in the category of geometry which admit noncommutative versions, and of course examples.