Spiro Karigiannis, Pure Mathematics Department, University of Waterloo will speak on:
Talk #1: Special types of Hermitian connections, Part I."
Abstract: I will discuss natural classes of connections on almost Hermitian manifolds, including the Bismut connection. I will be following closely the hard-to-find paper by Paul Gauduchon entitled "Hermitian Connections and Dirac Operators".
Talk #2: "Special types of Hermitian connections, Part II."
Abstract:
I
will
discuss
some
interesting
questions
that
I
am
studying
concerning
the
Bismut
connection
and
some
related
cohomology
theories.
This
is
joint
work
with
Xenia
de
la
Ossa
and
Eirik
Eik
Svanes.