Moscow - Petersburg

Seminar on Low-Dimensional Mathematics

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

Miniconference, June 29--30, 2006, Euler Institute.

• February 17, 2006: Jacob Mostovoy (Mexico). Generalized crossing changes and Vassiliev invariants. Abstract (Russian).

• February 24, 2006: Andrei Malyutin (SPb, PDMI). "On the structure of the Markov graph of a knot".
  Abstract (Russian, postscript).

• March 3, 2006: Maxim Vsemirnov (SPb, PDMI). Is the group SL(6,Z) (2,3)-generated?
  Abstract: English, Russian.

• March 10, 2006: Vladimir Nezhinzkij (SPb, SPbPU). Higher-dimensional analog of Goussarov's knot theory.
  Abstract (English).

• March 17, 2006: Gaiane Panina (SPb). On non-isotopic saddle surfaces.
  Abstract (Russian).

• March 24, 2006 (beginning at 17h): Yves Laszlo (Paris). Representations of the fundamental groups of algebraic curves in positive characteristic.
  Abstract (English).

• March 31, 2006: Sergei Anisov (Utrecht). Combinatorics of cut loci in lens manifolds.
  Abstract (English).

• April 21, 2006: Dmitry Zaporozhets (PDMI). On the roots of a random polynomial.
  Abstract (English). Abstract (Russian).

• April 28, 2006: Evgeny Stepanov (ITMO). Optimal irrigation and one-dimensional transport networks: a geometric approach.
  Abstract (Russian).

• May 12, 2006: Misha Verbitsky (Moscow--Glasgow). Sasakian manifolds.
  Abstract (Russian).

• May 19, 2006: Andrei Losev (Moscow, ITEP). The language of Batalin--Vilkovisky and a new understanding of symmetry.
  Abstract (Russian).

• June 2, 2006: V.Meshkov, A.M.Omelchenko (SPb). Topological description of twice periodic knitted structures. Abstract (Russian).

• June 16, 2006: P.Svetlov, T.Bereznyak (POMI). A new estimate for the distortion of a knotted curve. Abstract (Russian).

• June 19, 2006, room 402 (special time and place!): H.Gluck (UPenn). The Full Converse to the Four Vertex Theorem. Abstract.

• June 29--30, 2006: Miniconference.

• July 7, 2006: Vasilisa Shramchenko (Concordia, Canada). Frobenius structures on Hurwitz spaces. Abstract.

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