Dear colleagues:

We announce the following seminar at IPMU
(the Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe).

Regards,

Satoshi Kondo (IPMU)
http://ipmu.jp/

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Speaker: Giovanni Felder (ETH Zurich)

Date: Dec. 4 (Fri) 2009, 15:30-17:00

Place:  Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B

Title: Periodic cyclic homology in deformation quantization

Abstract: The formality theorem for cyclic chains provides an isomorphism
between the periodic cyclic homology of a quantized algebra of functions
on a manifold and the de Rham cohomology of the manifold. We show that this
isomorphism is compatible with Getzler's Gauss-Manin connection. Applications
to the algebraic index theorem will be presented. The talk is based on
joint work with Alberto Cattaneo and Thomas Willwacher.
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The schedule of the seminar can be checked from
http://db.ipmu.jp/seminar/