Moscow - Petersburg

Seminar on Low-Dimensional Mathematics

Place: Room 311, PDMI (27 Fontanka, St.-Petersburg).
Time: Fridays, 16:00--17:45.
Sponsor: oil company Schlumberger.
Organizer: S.Duzhin.

• February 7: G.Khimshiashvili (Tbilisi--Lodz). "Low-dimensional fibers of real polynomial mappings".
  Abstract in English, Abstract in Russian.

• February 14: A.Inshakov (Moscow). "Manifolds of secants of projective algebraic varieties".
  Abstract in Russian.

• February 28: Guy Roos (St.Petersburg). "Generalization of an integral of Hua Loo-keng."
  Abstract (TeX), Abstract (dvi).

• March 7: N.Vasiliev (St.Petersburg). "Monomial orderings and Groebner walk."
  Abstract (English), Abstract (Russian).

• March 14: David Bessis (Lyon-Moscow). "Presentations for braid groups of complex reflection groups".
  Abstract,

• March 21: Vitaly Tarasov (St.Petersburg). "Selberg type integrals associated with the Lie algebra $sl_3$."
  Abstract (Russian), Abstract (English).

• March 28: G.Litvinov (Moscow). Dequantization of mathematics.
  Abstract (English), Abstract (Russian).

• April 4: M.Vinogradov (Moscow). Algebraic differential calculus over modules and dioles.
  Abstract (English), Abstract (Russian).

• April 11: Gayane Panina (SPb). "An old conjecture on the characterization of a sphere".
  Abstract (Russian).

• April 18: Oleg Musin (Moscow). "Kissing number in dimension 4".
  Abstract.

• April 25: S.Mechveliani (Pereslavl-Zalessky). "Automatic proof using induction and the algebra of equalities".
  Abstract in English, Abstract in Russian.

• May 28 (Wednesday, joint session with A.M.Vershik's seminar):
  Vladlen Timorin (Moscow--Toronto). "Circles, Quadratic Maps Between Spheres and Representations of Clifford Algebras".
  Abstract in English, Abstract in Russian.

• June 6: V.Malyshev (Rybinsk). "Periods of quadratic irrationalities and torsion of elliptic curves".
  Abstract in Russian.

• June 13: V.Fock (Moscow--SPb--USA). "Pentagon and dilogarithm". Abstract (Russian).

• June 20: V.Turchin (Moscow). "(Co)homology of the space of knots".
  Abstract: Russian translit, Russian Cyrillic.

• June 27: P.Pushkar' (Moscow).
  Morse theory on manifolds with boundary. Abstract (Russian).

• July 4: P.Etingof (Massachusets). "Double affine Hecke algebras of rank 1 and affine cubic surfaces".
  Abstract in English,

• July 11: P.Bressler (Arizona). "Combinatorics of polytopes and Goreski--McPherson cohomology".

• July 25: G.Ziegler (TU-Berlin). "f-vectors of 3-spheres and 4-polytopes".

Talks made in 2001.

Talks made in spring 2002.

Talks made in autumn 2002.

Current schedule.