Spitalfields Day: Geometry and Algebra

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Spitalfields Day: Geometry and Algebra

 17 Sep 2010

Royal Society of Edinburgh

This Spitalfields Day was organised in connection with the election in May 2010 of Professor Hirzebruch to an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Scientific Organiser:

  • Andrew Ranicki, University of Edinburgh

Speakers:

  • Michael Atiyah, University of Edinburgh - The Hodge signature theorem past, present and future

  • Andrew Ranicki, University of Edinburgh - Aspects of quadratic forms in the work of Hirzebruch and Atiyah

  • Friedrich Hirzebruch, Max Planck Institute of Mathematics Bonn - 125 years of the Schubert calculus