# Seminars archive

Event Code Date Speaker Seminar Title
FMS 2nd August 2002 Forces in foams
FMS 2nd August 2002 Honeycombs
FMS 1st August 2002 A Cebers Experiments with ferrofluids
FMS 1st August 2002 2D tilings and 3D Euclidean patterns
FMS 31st July 2002 Practical techniques for demonstrating soap film phenomena
FMS 31st July 2002 Rotating crystals in foam
FMS 31st July 2002 JM Sullivan Open problems in soap bubble geometry
FMSW01 30th July 2002 K Brakke Kelvin partitions and stability
FMSW01 30th July 2002 F Graner & S Cox Minimal perimeter problems
FMSW01 30th July 2002 A Kraynik Brakke meets Matzke: Random 3D foams
FMSW01 30th July 2002 Periodic minimal surfaces
FMSW01 30th July 2002 Instabilities of drops
FMSW01 30th July 2002 Computing optimal geometry with the Evolver
HDG 12th July 2002 Elliptic and K3 fibrations birational to Fano 3-fold hypersurfaces II
MTH 11th July 2002 J Maldacena Introduction to pp-waves
HDG 11th July 2002 Elliptic and K3 fibrations birational to Fano 3-fold hypersurfaces I
MTH 10th July 2002 J Maldacena Introduction to pp-waves
HDG 9th July 2002 C van Enckevort D-brane categories on higher dimensional tori
MTH 9th July 2002 Black hole formation at high energies
6th July 2002 J Barrow Our universe and others (Ticket Only) For further information, please ring Sara Wilkinson on 01223 335983
HDG 5th July 2002 The topology of crepant resolutions of Calabi-Yau orbifolds
HDG 4th July 2002 When is every coherent sheaf a quotient of some vector bundle? (a positive result for orbifolds)
MTH 4th July 2002 Colliding Kaluza-Klein bubbles
MTH 3rd July 2002 NA Nekrasov Seiberg-Witten prepotential from instanton counting
HDG 1st July 2002 T Yasuda Twisted jet and orbifold cohomology
29th June 2002 Newton's Apple and other interesting maths! (Ticket Only) For further information, please ring Sara Wilkinson on 01223 335983
HDGW02 28th June 2002 S Mukai Invariant ring and birational geometry related with the Verlinde formula
HDGW02 28th June 2002 Regularity on abelian varieties
HDGW02 28th June 2002 Stable bundles, difference varieties and divisors on moduli spaces of curves
HDGW02 28th June 2002 F Schreyer Real forms of $V_{22}$ Fano 3-folds
HDGW02 27th June 2002 NI Shepherd-Barron Smoothness of slightly ramified deformations via tangent lifting
HDGW02 27th June 2002 Generic projections
MTH 27th June 2002 Tachyon dynamics
HDGW02 27th June 2002 Unprojections
HDGW02 27th June 2002 On Shokurov's pl-flips
HDGW02 27th June 2002 Rationally connected varieties
HDGW02 27th June 2002 The importance of being Q-factorial
HDGW02 26th June 2002 The Noether-Lefschetz locus -- a second order invariant
HDGW02 26th June 2002 Quaternionic Prym varieties and Hodge classes
HDGW02 26th June 2002 F Loeser Birational geometry of degenerations and Serre's invariant
HDGW02 26th June 2002 Orbifold cohomology and orbifold Chow ring
HDGW02 25th June 2002 Special varieties and classification theory
MTH 25th June 2002 Worldsheet derivation of a large $N$ duality
HDGW02 25th June 2002 Affine manifolds and mirror symmetry
HDGW02 25th June 2002 Stable reductive varieties (joint with Valery Alexeev)
HDGW02 25th June 2002 P Hacking Compact moduli of plane curves
HDGW02 25th June 2002 Some local applications of multiplier ideals
HDGW02 24th June 2002 Aspects of mirror symmetry on K3 surfaces
HDGW02 24th June 2002 The generic Green conjecture for curves of even genus on a K3 surface
HDGW02 24th June 2002 On an example of Vafa and Witten, or how to get rid of discrete torsion