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Speaker at the IGA Mini-Workshop ``Aspects of Finsler Geometry"

4 lectures (1 hour each), 31 October-1 November 2013. The lectures are held in conference room 7.15, Level 7, Ingkarni Wardli building, University of Adelaide.

Lecture 1: The origins of Finsler geometry in the calculus of variations

Lecture 2: Finsler manifolds of constant flag curvature

Lecture 3: Recent developments in special holonomy manifolds

Lecture 4: The geometry of rolling surfaces and non-holonomic mechanics

Speaker at the IGA/AMSI Workshop ``Representation Theory and Operator Algebras"

5 lectures (2 hours each), 1-5 July 2013. The lectures are held in conference room 7.15, Level 7, Ingkarni Wardli building, University of Adelaide.

Lecture 1: The Geometry of the Weyl Character Formula

Lecture 2: A Sketch of Harish-Chandra's Theory for Noncompact Groups

Lecture 3: Baum-Connes versus Beilinson-Bernstein

Lecture 4: Contractions of Lie Groups and the Mackey Analogy

Lecture 5: On the Category of Tempered Representations

Speaker at the IGA Workshop ``Current Groups and Twisted K-theory"

5 lectures (2 hours each), 2-5 April 2013. The lectures are held in conference room 7.15, Level 7, Ingkarni Wardli building, University of Adelaide.

Lecture 1: Anomalies in quantum field theory

Lecture 2: Current group extensions and gerbes

Lecture 3: Background on twisted K-theory

Lecture 4: Twisted K-theory constructions

Lecture 5: Gerbal actions and higher group cocycles