TTT77: Manchester

School of Mathematics, Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester.

Supported by the London Mathematical Society and MIMS.

Date

10 January 2011

Speakers

Michael Wiemeler (University of Manchester)
Actions of non-abelian Lie-groups on quasitoric manifolds

For a smooth manifold M, the smooth symmetry degree N_s(M) of M is defined to be the maximum dim G for compact Lie groups G acting smoothly and almost effectively on M. In this talk we establish upper bounds for the symmetry degree of certain quasitoric manifolds.

S S Khare (North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong)
Vector fields on certain manifolds

Samik Basu (University of Copenhagen)
R-module Thom spectra

Let R be a commutative ring spectrum. Given a map f from X to BGL_1R one can construct the R-module Thom spectrum Th(f). If f is a map of loop spaces, Th(f) has the structure of an R-algebra, and the R-algebra Topological Hochschild Homology can also be described as a Thom spectrum. Using this, one can make explicit computations of Topological Hochschild Homology.

Further information

The meeting was jointly supported by the London Mathematical Society and MIMS.