Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm

John Lesieutre,   University of Illinois at Chicago

Title: Automorphisms of algebraic varieties
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 11:00am

Leonid Chekhov,   Steklov Institute, Moscow

Title: Cluster Algebras (pre-talk)
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 1:00pm

Leonid Chekhov,   Steklov Institute, Moscow

Title: Quantum cluster algebras from geometry
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Friday, January 20, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Daniel Halpern-Leistner,   Columbia University

Title: Equivariant geometry and Calabi-Yau manifolds
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Thursday, January 26, 2017

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 105, 2:00pm

Yunfeng Jiang,   University of Kansas

Title: Introduction to the Behrend function
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Yunfeng Jiang,   University of Kansas

Title: The Behrend function and its motivic version in Donaldson-Thomas theory
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Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Eduard Looijenga,   Yau Mathematical Sciences Centre, Tsinghua University, Beijing

Title: Tate extensions in the cohomology of a Baily-Borel compactification
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Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Roya Beheshti Zavareh,   Washington Univ. St. Louis

Title: Mini-course on stable rationality I
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Thursday, March 2, 2017

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Roya Beheshti Zavareh,   Washington Univ. St. Louis

Title: Mini-course on stable rationality II
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Roya Beheshti Zavareh,   Washington Univ. St. Louis

Title: Spaces of rational curves on Fano surfaces
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Friday, March 3, 2017

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 101, 3:00pm

Roya Beheshti Zavareh,   Washington Univ. St. Louis

Title: Mini-course on stable rationality III
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Thursday, March 9, 2017

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Stefan Schreieder,   University of Bonn

Title: Pre-Talk: A gentle introduction to the minimal model program
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Stefan Schreieder,   University of Bonn

Title: On the number and boundedness of minimal models of general type
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Thursday, March 23, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Yan Soibelman,   Kansas State

Title: Riemann-Hilbert correspondence, Fukaya categories and wall-crossing formulas
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Friday, March 24, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Bohan Fang,   Beijing University

Title: BKMP remodeling conjecture and its application
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Thursday, March 30, 2017

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Samuel Grushevsky,   Stony Brook

Title: Fourier-Mukai transform on abelian varieties
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Samuel Grushevsky,   Stony Brook

Title: Vanishing and relations in the tautological ring of M_g, via the theta divisor
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Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Michael Gröchenig,   Free University, Berlin

Title: Mini-course on p-adic integration (for the Hitchin system) I
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Michael Gröchenig,   Free University, Berlin

Title: Mini-course on p-adic integration (for the Hitchin system) II
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Thursday, April 6, 2017

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 103, 1:00pm

Michael Gröchenig,   Free University, Berlin

Title: Mini-course on p-adic integration (for the Hitchin system) III
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Michael Gröchenig,   Free University, Berlin

Title: p-adic integration (for the Hitchin system)
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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Michael Gröchenig,   Free University, Berlin

Title: Refined motivic integration (pre-talk)
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Michael Gröchenig,   Free University, Berlin

Title: Refined motivic integration
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Thursday, April 13, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu,   Columbia University

Title: GW theory, FJRW theory, and MSP fields
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Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Michele Schiavina,   UC Berkeley

Title: BV-BFV formalism and General Relativity
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Thursday , May 4, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Si Li,   Tsinghua University

Title: Vertex algebras, BV master equation and integrable hierarchies
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Chenyang Xu,   BICMR Beijing

Title: Moduli space of smoothable K-semistable Q-Fano varieties
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Thursday, May 18, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Ailsa Keating,   IAS/Columbia

Title: Symplectomorphisms of exotic discs
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Thursday, September 21, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Umut Varolgunes,   MIT

Title: Mayer-Vietoris sequence for relative symplectic cohomology
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Umut Varolgunes,   MIT

Title: Mayer-Vietoris sequence for relative symplectic cohomology
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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Jun Zhang,   Tel Aviv University

Title: Applications of persistent homology in symplectic and Riemannian geometry
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Jun Zhang,   Tel Aviv University

Title: Applications of persistent homology in symplectic and Riemannian geometry
Special Note: Pre-talk at 1:00pm
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Thursday, October 5, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Laura Starkston,   Stanford University

Title: Weinstein handles: symplectic Morse theory
Special Note: Pre-talk
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Laura Starkston,   Stanford University

Title: Weinstein skeleta and arboreal singularities
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Thursday, October 12, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Harrison Chen,   UC Berkeley

Title: Equivariant localization for cyclic cohomology
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Harrison Chen,   UC Berkeley

Title: Equivariant localization for cyclic cohomology
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Thursday, October 19, 2017

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Yuan Wang,   Northwestern

Title: Pre-talk
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Yuan Wang,   Northwestern

Title: Characterization of abelian varieties for log pairs
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Diletta Martinelli,   Univ. of Edinburgh

Title: Pre-talk: Introduction to the MMP with a focus on the Abundance Conjecture
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Diletta Martinelli,   Univ. of Edinburgh

Title: Rational curves on fibered Calabi-Yau manifolds
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Thursday, November 2, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Stéphane Guillermou,   Grenoble

Title: The microlocal theory of sheaves
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Stéphane Guillermou,   Grenoble

Title: The three cusps conjecture
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Thursday, November 9, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Andrei Caldararu,   Madison

Title: Algebraic structures for categorical Gromov-Witten invariants
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Andrei Caldararu,   Wisconsin

Title: Computing a categorical Gromov-Witten invariant
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Thursday, November 16, 2017

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Howard Nuer,   UIC

Title: Pre-talk: Connections between cubic fourfolds and hyperkähler manifolds via derived categories and Bridgeland stability
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Howard Nuer,   UIC

Title: Stability conditions in families and families of Hyperkähler varieties
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Thursday, November 30, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Jo Nelson,   Columbia University

Title: Reeb Dynamics and Contact Invariants
Special Note: Pre-talk
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Jo Nelson,   Columbia University

Title: Reeb dynamics of prequantization bundles via contact homology
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Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar       TBA, 3:00pm

Pavel Mnev,   University of Notre Dame

Title: Two-dimensional abelian BF theory in Lorenz gauge as a B-twisted (2,2)-superconformal field theory
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