Not The Singularities Seminar, 2009-10

Wednesday 27 January 2010, 2pm, Room 514, Peter Giblin, Recent work on centre symmetry sets (with Staszek Janeczko)

Wednesday 3 February 2010, 4pm, Room 514, Graham Reeve, Minkowski sets between a curve and a surface in 3-space

Wednesday 10 February 2010, 4pm, Room 103, Joel Haddley, Complex Hyperbolic Reflection Groups as Monodromy Groups of Unimodal Singularities

Wednesday 24 February 2010, 4pm, Room 103, Fawaz Alharbi, Algebraic description of simple quasi boundary and quasi corner classes

Wednesday 3 March 2010, 4pm, Room 103, Peter Giblin, Centres of circles, midpoints of chords and reconstruction of curves from their various medial sets

Wednesday 24 March 2010, 4pm, Room 103, Fawaz Alharbi, Quasi Projections of Generic surfaces with boundaries


Meetings in Academic Year 2008-9 of Not The Singularities Seminar

Tuesday 3 February 2009, 4pm, Room 514. Peter Giblin, Vertex transition curves and symmetry sets of plane sections of surfaces close to the tangent plane at a point (joint work with R. Uribe-Vargas)

Tuesday 10 February 2009, 3pm, Room 211. Paul Warder, Gauss maps, parallel tangent planes and equidistants

Tuesday 17 February 2009, 2pm, Room 514. Joel Haddley, Monodromy Groups of Symmetric Singularities - an introduction

Tuesday 24 February 2009, 3pm, Room 211. Graham Reeve, Singularities of a new version of Minkowski set (AKA Centre Symmetry Set)

Tuesday 3 March 2009, 3pm, Room 211. Fawaz Alharbi, Some applications to quasi boundary and quasi corner singularities


Meetings in Academic Year 2007-8 of The Singularities Seminar

Monday 15 October 2007, 2pm, Room 211: Alexei Gorinov Conical resolutions of discriminants and their applications, I

Monday 22 October 2007, 2pm, Room 211: Alexei Gorinov Conical resolutions of discriminants and their applications, II

Monday 29 October 2007, 2pm, Room 211: Alexei Gorinov Conical resolutions of discriminants and their applications, III

Monday 5 November 2007, 2pm, Room 211: Terry Wall Projection-generic space curves, modified versality and geometry, I

Monday 12 November 2007, 2pm, Room 211: Terry Wall Projection-generic space curves, modified versality and geometry, II

Monday 19 November 2007, 2pm, Room 211: Alexey Remizov (Porto) Singularities of the equation of geodesics on surfaces

Monday 26 November 2007, 2.10pm, Room 211: Vladimir Zakalyukin Legendre singularities and implicit differential equations

Monday 4 December 2007, 2.10pm, Room 211: Victor Goryunov Complex crystallographic groups and symmetries of parabolic function singularities

Monday 11 December 2007, **5.00pm**, Room 211: Victor Goryunov Complex crystallographic groups and symmetries of parabolic function singularities II

Thursday 7 February 2008, **3.00pm** Room 514: Sergey Yuzvinsky (University of Oregon) Special fibers of pencils of curves and topology

Thursday 14 February 2008, **2.30pm** Room 514: Ilya Bogaevsky (Moscow/Liverpool) Discontinuous gradient differential equations

Thursday 21 February 2008, **2.30pm** Room 514: Ilya Bogaevsky (Moscow/Liverpool) Transition of shocks and point clusters in plane

Thursday 28 February 2008, **2.30pm** Room 514:Jon Woolf (Liverpool) Stability conditions for constructible sheaves

Thursday 13 March 2008, **2.30pm** Room 514: Oleg Karpenkov (Leiden) Tensegrities (Speaker supported by a grant from the Research Centre in Mathematics and Modelling)

Thursday 3 April 2008, **2.30pm** Room 514: Oleg Karpenkov (Leiden) Conjugacy classes in SL(n,Z)


Meetings in Academic Year 2007-8 of Not The Singularities Seminar

Wednesday 1 August 2007, 4pm, Room 211: Peter Giblin Pre-Symmetry Sets I

Wednesday 8 August 2007, 4pm, Room 211: Andre Diatta Pre-Symmetry Sets II

Thursday 16 August 2007, 4pm, Room 211: Peter Giblin Views of Illuminated Surfaces

Wednesday 29 August 2007, 4pm, Room 211: Declan Davis Sectional Curvature in the Affine Context

Wednesday 5 September 2007, 4pm, Room 306: Jon Woolf Discussion Meeting on Affine Differential Geometry

Tuesday 18 September 2007, 2.30pm, Room 514: Jon Woolf Connections and Affine Differential Geometry

Tuesday 25 September 2007, 4pm, Room 211: Paul Warder D4 singularities in parallel tangent plane problems

Tuesday 16 October 2007, 4pm, Room 211: Peter Giblin Area-based symmetry sets, midpoints and tricentres

Tuesday 23 October 2007, 4pm, Room 211: Vladimir Zakalyukin and Paul Warder Stability of families of equidistants,I

Tuesday 30 October 2007, 4pm, Room 211: Vladimir Zakalyukin and Paul Warder Stability of families of equidistants, II

Tuesday 13 November 2007, 4pm, Room 211: Alexey Remizov (University of Porto) Singularities and implicit systems of ODEs

Tuesday 27 November 2007, 4pm, Room 211: Alexey Remizov (University of Porto) Singularities and implicit systems of ODEs II

Tuesday 11 December 2007, 4pm, **Room G16**: NTSS-by-MAGIC (joint seminar with Leeds) Jon Woolf Pascal's triangle and Grassmannians

Tuesday 5 February 2008, **5.30pm, Room 514**: Vladimir Zakalyukin, s-equivalence of families and affine equidistants

Tuesday 26 February 2008, **5.00pm, Room 514**: Ilya Bogaevsky (Moscow/Liverpool), Recent work on differential equations

Tuesday 4 March 2008, 4.00pm, Room 211: Ilya Bogaevsky (Moscow/Liverpool), Recent work on differential equations, II

Tuesday 15 April 2008, 4.00pm, Room 211: Peter Giblin Geometry of parallel plane sections of a surface close to the tangent plane

Tuesday 22 April 2008, **5.00pm**, Room 211: Ricardo Uribe-Vargas (College de France/Liverpool, partially supported by a grant from the Research Centre in Mathematics and Modelling), Families of space curves containing a curve with a zero of curvature

Tuesday 29 April 2008, **5.00pm**, Room 211: Ricardo Uribe-Vargas (College de France/Liverpool), Surface evolution and pairs of Legendrian fibrations

Tuesday 13 May 2008, 4pm, Room 211: Declan Davis The Gauss-Bonnet theorem and attempts to make it affine

Tuesday 20 May 2008, 4pm, Room 211: Alexey Remizov (University of Porto)(Supported by a grant from RCMM) Geodesics in Pseudo-Riemann metrics

Tuesday 27 May 2008, 4pm, Room 211: Fawaz Alharbi (University of Liverpool) Corner quasi Singularities

Tuesday 3 June 2008, 4pm, Room 211: Paul Warder (University of Liverpool) Affine equidistants


Meetings in Academic Year 2006-7 of The Singularities Seminar

Monday 9 October 2006: Anna Pratoussevitch (Liverpool) Singular m-spin bundles on Riemann surfaces

Monday 16 October 2006: Shyuichi Izumiya (Hokkaido) Horospherical geometry of submanifolds in hyperbolic space

Monday 23 October 2006: Vladimir Guletskii (Liverpool) Motives of singular curves I

Monday 30 October 2006: Vladimir Guletskii (Liverpool) Motives of singular curves II

Monday 6 November 2006: Vladimir Guletskii (Liverpool) Motives of singular curves III

Monday 13 November 2006: Vladimir Guletskii (Liverpool) Motives of singular curves IV

Monday 20 November 2006: Vladimir Guletskii (Liverpool) Motives of singular curves V

Monday 11 December 2006, 5pm: note changed time : Victor Buchstaber (Manchester/Moscow) An application of singularity theory to the problem of differentiation of an Abelian function over its parameters

Wednesday 31 January 2007, 4pm: Sabir Gusein-Zade (Liverpool/Moscow) Multiindex filtrations of functions,Poincare series and integrals with respect to the Euler characteristic

Wednesday 7 February 2007, 4pm: Sabir Gusein-Zade (Liverpool/Moscow) Multiindex filtrations of functions,Poincare series and integrals with respect to the Euler characteristic, II

Wednesday 14 February 2007, 4pm, ***Room 117 of Theoretical Physics***: Oleg Viro (Uppsala) Basic characteristics of generic real curves with available complexification

Wednesday 21 February 2007, 4pm, ***Room 514*** Kevin Houston (Leeds) Equisingularity of mappings

Wednesday 28 February 2007, ***2pm*** Room 211: Vladimir Zakalyukin (Liverpool) Non-standard classification of simple projection singularites

Wednesday 7 March 2007, 4pm: Sabir Gusein-Zade (Liverpool/Moscow) Quadratic forms for a 1-form on an isolated complete intersection singularity I

Wednesday 14 March 2007, 4pm: Sabir Gusein-Zade (Liverpool/Moscow) Quadratic forms for a 1-form on an isolated complete intersection singularity II

Wednesday 21 March 2007, 4pm, **Room 514**: Emmanuel Ferrand (Paris) Bennequin inequality 25 years later

Wednesday 28 March 2007, 4pm, **Room 514**: Jon Woolf (Liverpool) Stability conditions for contructible sheaves

Wednesday 9 May 2007, 4pm, **Room 514**: Mauricio Garay (SISSA, Trieste) Unicity and sectorial convergence of generalised Schroedinger-Rayleigh expansions


Meetings in Academic Year 2006-7 of Not The Singularities Seminar

From January 2007 on Tuesdays at  5:00 in room 211, Mathematical Sciences Building. For confirmation please contact Peter Giblin on (0151) 794 4053.

Thursday 12 October 2006: Declan Davis (Liverpool) Binary differential equations and affine differential geometry .

Thursday 19 October 2006: Paul Warder (Liverpool) Midpoint parallel tangent sets in 3-space .

Thursday 26 October 2006: Andre Diatta (Liverpool) Pre-symmetry sets .

Thursday 2 November 2006: Peter Giblin (Liverpool) Introduction to the medial axis .

Thursday 9 November 2006: Peter Giblin (Liverpool) Introduction to the medial axis II, Damon's work .

Thursday 16 November 2006: Peter Giblin (Liverpool) Introduction to the medial axis III, Damon's work .

Thursday 23 November 2006: No meeting (Liverpool Mathematical Society lecture)

Thursday 30 November 2006: Paul Warder (Liverpool) Ruled surfaces of bitangent lines and affine equidistants in 3-space .

Thursday 7 December 2006: Kevin Houston (Leeds) A Bose type formula for the medial axis

Thursday 14 December 2006: Declan Davis (Liverpool) Recent work on affine differential geometry .

Tuesday 30 January 2007: Paul Warder and Vladimir Zakalyukin (Liverpool) Affine equidistants .

Tuesday 6 February 2007,***4pm***: Jon Woolf (Liverpool) Covering spaces of a stratified space .

Tuesday 13 February 2007,5pm: Declan Davis (Liverpool) Recent work on affine differential geometry and singularities .

Tuesday 27 February 2007,5pm: Sabir Gusein-Zade (Moscow/Liverpool) Indices of vector fields .

Tuesday 13 March 2007,5pm: Peter Giblin (Liverpool) PDEs for generating affinely invariant medial axes (after Teixeira et al.) .

Tuesday 27 March 2007,5pm: Declan Davis and Paul Warder (Liverpool) Current problems .

Tuesday 15 May 2007, **4pm**: Declan Davis Annual PhD Seminar: Current work in singularity theory and affine differential geometry

Tuesday 22 May 2007, **4pm**: Paul Warder Annual PhD Seminar: Current work in parallel tangency and equidistants for surfaces


Meetings in Academic Year 2005-6 of The Singularities Seminar

Monday 24 October 2005: Gianmarco Capitanio (Liverpool), Cusp singularities of plane envelopes.

Monday 21 November 2005: Vladimir Zakalyukin (Liverpool) Equivalence relations with constraints on diffeomorphism-jets.

Monday 5 December 2005: Jonathan Woolf (Liverpool) Witt spaces, Cappell and Shaneson's  L-class formula.

Monday 12 December 2005: Victor Buchstaber (Manchester) Krichever-Novikov continuous basis for plane algebraic curves.

Wednesday 25 January 2006, 12.00: Terry Wall (Liverpool) Projection genericity of space curves.

Wednesday 1 February 2006, 12.00: Terry Wall (Liverpool) Projection genericity of space curves II.

Wednesday 8 February 2006, 2.00: Victor Goryunov (Liverpool)

Wednesday 15 February 2006, 1.15: Victor Goryunov (Liverpool) Shephard-Todd groups and simple functions with symmetry.

Wednesday 22 February 2006, 2.00: Michael Loenne (Liverpool)

Wednesday 8 March 2006, 1.15: Terry Wall (Liverpool) Hypersurfaces in P^n with 1-parameter symmetry group I.

Wednesday 15 March 2006, 2.00: Terry Wall (Liverpool) Hypersurfaces in P^n with 1-parameter symmetry group II.

Wednesday 22 March 2006, 1.15: Terry Wall (Liverpool) Hypersurfaces in P^n with 1-parameter symmetry group III.

Wednesday 29 March 2006, 2.00: Michael Loenne (Liverpool) The fundamental group of the space of smooth projective hypersurfaces of fixed degree .


Meetings in Academic Year 2005-6 of Not The Singularities Seminar

Monday 31 October 2005: Peter Giblin (Liverpool) Pre-Symmetry Sets.

Monday 7 November 2005: Jonathan Woolf (Liverpool) Partial orders and homotopies.

Monday 5 December 2005: Declan Davis (Liverpool) Affine focal surfaces and symmetry sets.

Wednesday 1 February 2006: Paul Warder (Liverpool) Some observations on the midpoint locus.

Wednesday 8 February 2006: Peter Giblin (Liverpool) Introduction to the centre symmetry set.

Wednesday 15 February 2006: Peter Giblin (Liverpool) Introduction to the centre symmetry set II.

Wednesday 22 February 2006: Dmitri Kerner (visiting Liverpool) The calculus of Euler characteristic and its application.

Wednesday 8 March 2006: Andre Diatta (Liverpool) Vertex sets on sections of surfaces in one-parameter families

Wednesday 29 March 2006: Paul Warder (Liverpool) Reconstruction of a curve from its midpoint locus, and constant angle envelopes .

Wednesday 14 June 2006, 3pm Room 211: Peter Giblin Overview of work on geometry of surfaces by Andrew, Paul and Declan .

Wednesday 12 July 2006, 3pm Room 211: Andrew Irving Surfaces of constant width.

Wednesday 26 July 2006 3pm Room 211: Paul Warder Parallel tangent pairs and related constructions.

Wednesday 9 August 2006 3pm Room 211: Declan Davis Affine focal sets of surfaces

Wednesday 16 August 2006 3pm Room 211: Peter Giblin Discriminants

Wednesday 30 August 2006 2.30pm Room 211: Peter Giblin Versal Unfoldings ; 3.30 Room 211: Declan Davis Milnor Fibrations, Vector Fields and Monodromy: A Beginner's Introduction



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