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This is a reminder that the inaugural event to celebrate the opening of the new Centre for Geometry, Topology, and Applications will take place on Tuesday - Wednesday, 18-19 September. All talks will take place in 54/4011 (4A), Level 4 of the Mathematics
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<div class="">The mission of the Centre is to support and promote exciting <br class="">
new research within these areas and in their interaction with other <br class="">
fields of mathematics and science.</div>
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<div class="">A summary of the programme is as follows: </div>
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10:00 - 11:00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ulrike Tillmann (Oxford)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>Classifying commutativity<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
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Guoliang Yu (Texas A&M)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>
The Novikov conjecture and groups of volume preserving diffeomorphisms<br class="">
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Lunch<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
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14:30 - 15:30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Karen Vogtmann (Warwick)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>Spaces of finite metric graphs <br class="">
16:00 - 17:00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Nigel Higson (Penn State)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
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Wednesday 19 September<br class="">
10:00 - 11:00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sayan Mukherjee (Duke)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>How Many Directions Determine a Shape <br class="">
11:30 - 12:30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Kathryn Hess (EPFL)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>Topological characterization of neuron morphologies</div>
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<div class="">The talks are aimed at non-specialists. <br class="">
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A detailed programme, titles and abstracts will be given on the conference website at <br class="">
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<a href="https://www.southampton.ac.uk/cgta/news/events/2018/09/18-inaugural-event.page" class="">https://www.southampton.ac.uk/cgta/news/events/2018/09/18-inaugural-event.page</a><br class="">
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It will be great to see you there. <br class="">
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With best wishes, <br class="">
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Jacek Brodzki</div>
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