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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Many thanks to all of you who joined the introductory meeting of the seminar on Diffeomorphism Groups today!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I attach a pdf with a road map of the seminar together with the dates and the list of speakers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">There is still a lot of space if you want to give a talk, since we can pair you up with another person in a given slot (anybody fancying joining Albert, for instance?). Just drop me a line, if you want to jump in! I also
attach the book (<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/guuq22m0mxkqgut3c3zvk/Banyaga-The-Structure-of-Classical-Diffeomorphism-Groups.pdf?rlkey=1oponczve8iew098iz0tg8zu6&dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/guuq22m0mxkqgut3c3zvk/Banyaga-The-Structure-of-Classical-Diffeomorphism-Groups.pdf?rlkey=1oponczve8iew098iz0tg8zu6&dl=0</a>)
we are going to read and some more bibliographical references.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The book is good in giving us a clear path to follow but it is sloppy at times so feel free to search the internet for other sources (as nice introduction to the simplicity conjecture, I recommend for instance the paper
by Cristofaro-Gardiner, Humiliere and Seyfaddini).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">If you are giving a talk and you want to discuss or something is not clear, just drop me a message and we can meet to look at it together. Each session will be divided into two 45-minute parts with a short break in the
middle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The next session will be on September 23 at 11:00 in NU-09A46 and on zoom. We will revise some background about diffeos, vector fields, and differential forms, and look at examples.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In the future, I think we will just use the topology mailing list to send announcements about the seminar. If you want to subscribe to that send a message to Thomas
<a href="mailto:t.o.rot@vu.nl">t.o.rot@vu.nl</a> . <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">Simply</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> yours,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Gabriele<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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