This Week in Mathematics

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8 January 1999

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Friday: 8 January 1999
: $*$ Colloquium Coffee, 3:00 p.m., 204 Love Building; $*$ Colloquium, 3:30 p.m., 101 Love Building; Jean-Paul Brasselet, Institut de Mathematiques de Luminy; Vector Fields and Characteristic Classes, a Survey; The Euler-Poincar'e characteristic measures the obstruction to the construction of (continuous) vector fields on smooth manifolds. The generalizations of Chern, in the case of analytic manifolds, and of M.H. Schwartz, in the case of analytic varieties, extend the obstruction theory to the construction of frames. The lecture will be a survey about these constructions, leading to the definition of the classical Chern classes and of the Schwartz-MacPherson classes.

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$*$ Seminars and colloquia at "that other" university [a.k.a. the University of Florida]
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This document is maintained by Melissa Elaine Smith / smith@math.fsu.edu
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