Mikhail Malakhaltsev
(Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de Los Andes)
Heinz Hopf discovered the bundle, which nowadays is referred
to as ``Hopf bundle'', in 1931, in order to calculate the homotopy
group π3(S2).
The Hopf bundle is a wonderful example of a
principal bundle with rich geometry which appears in various
geometrical situations.
The aim of the talk is to demonstrate that Berry's phases can be
described using the Hopf bundle of a Hilbert space.