Differential Geometry Seminar - 2011 |
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| Tuesday | October 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 | Paul Tod (University of Oxford) | On asymptotically flat solutions of Einstein's equations periodic in time |
| Wednesday | October 5 | 1:30 - 2:30 | Paul Baird (Universite de Brest) | Invariant frameworks |
| Wednesday | October 12 | 1:00 - 2:00 | Paul Baird (Universite de Brest) | Ricci solitons via semi-conformal mappings |
| Thursday | October 13 | 12:30 - 1:30 | John Huerta (ANU) | G2, split octonions, and the rolling ball |
| Thursday | October 20 | 12:30 - 1:30 | David Baraglia (ANU) | G2 manifolds and coassociative submanifolds |
| Thursday | October 27 | 12:30 - 1:30 | Mike Eastwood (ANU) | Complexes of differential operators |
| Thursday | November 3 | 12:30 - 1:30 | Dennis The (ANU) | DG working seminar: Bryant's EDS notes - Lecture 3 (part 2) |
| Thursday | November 10 | 12:30 - 1:30 | Ravi Shroff (ANU) | Partial rigidity of CR embeddings into hyperquadrics with signature difference |
| Thursday | November 17 | 12:30 - 1:30 | Travis Willse (ANU) | Generic 2-plane fields on 5-manifolds, parallel tractor extension, and split G2 metric holonomy |
| Thursday | November 24 | 12:30 - 1:30 | Alex Isaev (ANU) | Extracting invariants of isolated hypersurface singularities from their moduli algebras |
| WEDNESDAY | November 30 | 10:00 - 11:00 | Koen van den Dungen (ANU) | Gauge theories from almost commutative manifolds |
| WEDNESDAY | November 30 | 12:30 - 1:30 | Alex Isaev (ANU) | Extracting invariants of isolated hypersurface singularities from their moduli algebras (part 2) |
| Thursday | December 1 | 12:30 - 1:30 | Peter Vassiliou (ANU) | Variations on a theme of SL(2,R) |
DG Working Seminar - 2011 |
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(Location: John Dedman, G35)
The main topic in our working seminar for Oct/Nov 2011 will be exterior differential systems (EDS). We'll work through Robert Bryant's EDS notes, covering the Cartan-Kahler theorem and examples and applications of EDS.
| Tuesday | October 11 | 10 - 11:30 | Peter Vassiliou (University of Canberra) | Exterior differential systems: Background & Introduction |
| Tuesday | October 18 | 10 - 11:30 | Travis Willse (ANU) | Bryant's EDS notes - Lecture 1 |
| Tuesday | October 25 | 10 - 11:30 | Katja Sagerschnig (ANU) | Bryant's EDS notes - Lecture 2 |
| Tuesday | November 1 | 10 - 11:30 | Dennis The (ANU) | Bryant's EDS notes - Lecture 3 (part 1) |
| THURSDAY | November 3 | 12:30 - 1:30 | Dennis The (ANU) | Bryant's EDS notes - Lecture 3 (part 2) |
| Tuesday | November 8 | 10 - 11:30 | Peter Vassiliou (University of Canberra) | Bryant's EDS notes - Lecture 4 |
| Tuesday | November 15 | 10 - 11:30 | Matthew Randall (ANU) | Bryant's EDS notes - Lecture 5 (part 1) |
| Tuesday | November 22 | 10 - 11:30 | Matthew Randall (ANU) | Bryant's EDS notes - Lecture 5 (part 2) |
| Tuesday | November 29 | 10 - 11:30 | Travis Willse (ANU) | Bryant's EDS notes - Lecture 6 |
Interested in giving talk? Please contact Dennis The (Dennis.The AT anu.edu.au)