Professor H. Upmeier of the Marburg University would be visiting the Department of Mathematics, IISc as the InfoSys Visiting Professor during the period Dec 4 - Feb 28. He will give a series of lectures on the broad theme of “Geometric Quantization in Complex and Harmonic Analysis”. The first set of lectures will take place according to the following schedule

• Lecture 1: Friday, Dec 7
• Lecture 2: Monday, Dec 10
• Lecture 3: Wednesday, Dec 12
• Lecture 4: Friday, Dec 14
• Lecture 5: Monday, Dec 17
• Lecture 6: Wednesday, Dec 19

All lectures will take place in LH-1, Department of Mathematics. The first lecture will be at 3 pm. All subsequent lectures will be at 4 pm.

In this series, the speaker will discuss some basic material (connexions, curvature etc) and then cover, with full proofs, the Borel–Weil–Bott theorem and the Kodaira embedding theorem.

A second set of lectures will be announced subsequently.