IGA Lecture Series

IGA Lecture Series 2013


There will be several distinguished IGA Lecturers spread throughout the year, who will give lecture series on current topics of intense international interest in Geometry and its Applications.

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Robert Bryant (Duke University)

Speaker at the IGA Mini-Workshop ``Aspects of Finsler Geometry"

4 lectures (1 hour each), 31 October-1 November 2013. The lectures are held in conference room 7.15, Level 7, Ingkarni Wardli building, University of Adelaide.

Lecture 1: The origins of Finsler geometry in the calculus of variations

Lecture 2: Finsler manifolds of constant flag curvature

Lecture 3: Recent developments in special holonomy manifolds

Lecture 4: The geometry of rolling surfaces and non-holonomic mechanics


Nigel Higson (Penn State University)

Speaker at the IGA/AMSI Workshop ``Representation Theory and Operator Algebras"

5 lectures (2 hours each), 1-5 July 2013. The lectures are held in conference room 7.15, Level 7, Ingkarni Wardli building, University of Adelaide.

Lecture 1: The Geometry of the Weyl Character Formula

Lecture 2: A Sketch of Harish-Chandra's Theory for Noncompact Groups

Lecture 3: Baum-Connes versus Beilinson-Bernstein

Lecture 4: Contractions of Lie Groups and the Mackey Analogy

Lecture 5: On the Category of Tempered Representations


Jouko Mickelsson (University of Helsinki)

Speaker at the IGA Workshop ``Current Groups and Twisted K-theory"

5 lectures (2 hours each), 2-5 April 2013. The lectures are held in conference room 7.15, Level 7, Ingkarni Wardli building, University of Adelaide.

Lecture 1: Anomalies in quantum field theory

Lecture 2: Current group extensions and gerbes

Lecture 3: Background on twisted K-theory

Lecture 4: Twisted K-theory constructions

Lecture 5: Gerbal actions and higher group cocycles


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