Noncommutative Geometry

Speaker: (Western)

"An algebraic approach to characteristic classes"

Time: 11:30

Room: MC 107

We shall review the Chern-Weil theory cast in the language of finitely generated projective modules. This algebraic approach has the advantage that it can be extended to noncommutative settings.

Homotopy Theory

Speaker:

"Organizational meeting"

Time: 13:30

Room: MC 107

Analysis Seminar

Speaker: Purvi Gupta (Western)

" Some new analogies between convex and complex analysis - Part I"

Time: 15:30

Room: MC 107

Convexity has played an important role in the development of the theory of several complex variables. In this first of a series of talks, I will give a brief introduction to the various notions of convexity that complex analysts have found useful. We will then define an (equi)affine-invariant surface area measure for convex bodies, and discuss some related problems.The subsequent talk(s) will focus on its relatively less explored complex analog --- the Fefferman hypersurface area measure. This talk will be accessible to graduate students.