Meetings of the COW seminar in 2002-2003

Details of the activities of the COW this year may be found on the COW homepage.

• Cambridge, Thursday 10th October 2002
  3:00 Florin Ambro (Cambridge): A boundary property
  4:30 Marta Mazzocco (Cambridge): On Schlesinger systems

• Bath, Thursday 14th November 2002
  2:30 Kevin Costello (Cambridge), Hilbert schemes, Hecke algebras and the Calogero-Sutherland system
  4:00 Yujiro Kawamata (Tokyo), Representing the equivalence as a Fourier-Mukai functor

• Warwick, Thursday 28th November 2002
  3:00 Elizabeth Gasparim (New Mexico), Moduli of bundles on surfaces and birational transformations
  4:30 Marc Nieper-Wisskirchen (Cambridge), Hirzebruch-Riemann-Roch formula on compact hyperKaehler manifolds and Rozansky-Witten invariants

• Oxford, Thursday 5th December 2002
  3:00 Spencer Bloch (Chicago), Periods and epsilon factors associated to linear differential equations
  4:30 Paul Seidel (London), Homological mirror symmetry and the quartic surface

• Warwick, Thursday 16th January 2003
  3:00 Alessandro Chiodo (Cambridge), Higher Spin curves
  4:30 Sébastien Racanière (London), Kirwan map and moduli spaces of flat connections

• London, Thursday 20th February 2003
  2:00 Tom Bridgeland (Edinburgh), Stability conditions and Markov numbers
  4:00 Alastair King (Bath), Pencils and strings: Vafa's mysterious duality

• Nottingham, Thursday 27th February 2003
  3:00 Simon Willerton (Sheffield), Lie algebras and derived categories of sheaves
  4:20 Matilde Marcolli (Bonn), From noncommutative to arithmetic geometry

• Warwick, Thursday 8th May 2003
  3:00 Brent Doran (Princeton), Moduli spaces as ball quotients via hypergeometric functions
  4:30 Sébastien Boucksom (Grenoble), Moving intersections of divisors and currents

• Cambridge, Thursday 22nd May 2003
  3:30 Jon Pridham (Cambridge), Structure of certain deformation spaces
  The Kuwait Lecture (not really anything to do with the COW) also took place on this day in Cambridge, as follows:
  5.00 Claude LeBrun (Stony Brook), 4-Dimensional Einstein Manifolds

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