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Tuesday, April 16, 2024 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Differential Geometry Working Seminar

Aleksandar Milivojevic, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Obstructions to almost complex structures following Massey"

I will report on work in progress with Michael Albanese, in which we prove statements claimed by Massey in 1961 concerning the obstructions to finding an almost complex structure on an orientable manifold (or more generally, reducing the structure group of a real vector bundle over a CW complex to the unitary group). These obstructions involve the integral Stiefel-Whitney classes – which detect the existence of integral lifts of the mod 2 Stiefel-Whitney classes, namely putative Chern classes – and relations between the Pontryagin and Chern classes. A somewhat surprising aspect of these obstructions is that they are in fact generally proper fractional parts of what one might at first expect. For example, the obstruction in degree eleven is 1/24 of the eleventh integral Stiefel-Whitney class.

MC 5403

Wednesday, April 17, 2024 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Schemes Learning Seminar

Anne Johnson, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Attributes and morphisms of schemes"

We start Chapter 3 of Eisenbud and Harris, discussing finiteness conditions, properness and separation. We discuss the construction of Proj S as time allows.

MC 5417