Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 3:00pm

Professor Tom Graber,   California Institute of Technology

Title: Towards a quantum McKay correspondence
Abstract and details available

Thursday, September 22, 2005

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 2:30pm

Professor Eric Zaslow,   Northwestern University

Title: Seidel's Mirror Map for Abelian Varieties
Abstract and details available

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 2:30pm

Professor Kevin Costello,   University of Chicago

Title: The Gromov-Witten potential associated to a Calabi-Yau A-infinity category
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 6, 2005

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 2:30pm

Professor Jiun-Cheng Chen,   Northwestern University

Title: Characterizing projective spaces
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Thursday, October 20, 2005

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 2:30pm

Professor Albrecht Klemm,   University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Physics

Title: Enumerative Geometry on Enriques Surfaces
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Thursday, October 27, 2005

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 2:30pm

Professor Vassily Gorbounov,   University of Kentucky

Title: Elliptic genus test for the mirror of some complete intersection
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 3, 2005

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 2:30pm

Professor Nan-Kuo Ho,   The Fields Institute (Canada) and National Cheng-Kung University (Taiwan)

Title: On the volume of the moduli space of flat connections on a non-orientable 2-manifold
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 8, 2005

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Swift 107, 4:00pm

Professor Michael Entov ,   Technion-Isreal Institute of Technology

Title: "Almost homomorphisms", "almost linear" functionals and "almost measures" in symplectic topology
Special Note: Special time and location
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 10, 2005

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 2:30pm

Professor Thomas Nevins,   University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title: Difference operators, Hilbert schemes, and the Ruijsenaars-Schneider system
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Thursday, November 17, 2005

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 2:30pm

Professor Lev Borisov ,   University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title: Analytic continuation of solutions of GKZ system and homological mirror symmetry
Abstract and details available

Friday, January 6, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 2:00pm

Professor Ezra Getzler,   Northwestern University

Title: Batalin-Vilkovisky algebras and Frobenius manifolds in higher genus
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Thursday, January 12, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Joseph Johns,   Univesity of Chicago

Title: The directed Fukaya category and Morse theory
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 3:00pm

Teruji Thomas,   University of Chicago

Title: The Maslov class as a quadratic space
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Friday, January 20, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Hsian-Hua Tseng,   University of British Columbia & MSRI

Title: Global quotient structure of moduli of orbifold stable maps
Special Note: The speaker will arrive on January 18 (early morning) and leave on January 28 (afternoon).
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Hsian-Hua Tseng,   University of British Columbia & MSRI

Title: Orbifold Quantum Riemann-Roch
Special Note: The speaker will arrive on January 18 (early morning) and leave on January 28 (afternoon).
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 30, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 3:00pm

Oren Ben Bassat,  

Title: Noncommutative tori and the Fourier-Mukai transform
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Thursday, February 2, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Michael Gekhtman,   University of Notre Dame

Title: Cluster Algebras, Poisson Geometry and Integrable Systems
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Friday, February 3, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 2:00pm

Professor Young-Heon Kim,   The Fields Institute, University of Toronto

Title: The determinant of the Laplacian and the quasifuchsian space
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 9, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Vasiliy Dolgushev,   Northwestern University

Title: Relative formality theorem and quantization of coisotropic submanifolds
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 10, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 3:00pm

Sergiy Koshkin,   Kansas State University

Title: Conormal bundles to knots and Large N duality
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 16, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Alexandra Pettet,   University of Chicago

Title: Finiteness properties of subgroups of automorphism groups of free groups
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 23, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Paul Seidel,   University of Chicago

Title: Khovanov meets Ozsvath-Szabo
Abstract and details available

Thursday, March 2, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Mohammed Abouzaid,   University of Chicago

Title: On Homological Mirror Symmetry and Tropical Geometry
Abstract and details available

Thursday, March 9, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Mihnea Popa,   University of Chicago

Title: GV sheaves, Fourier-Mukai, and generic vanishing theorems
Abstract and details available

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Juan Souto,   University of Chicago

Title: Geometry of Heegaard splittings and rank of the fundamental group
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Thursday, March 30, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Professor Ian Agol,   University of Illinois at Chicago

Title: Finiteness of arithmetic reflection groups
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 4.15pm

Professor Alexey Bondal,   Steklov Institute, Moscow

Title: Derived categories of toric varieties
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Thursday, April 6, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Davesh Maulik,   Princeton University

Title: Quantum cohomology of the Hilbert scheme of points of A_n resolutions
Special Note: The speaker will arrive on April 3 (evening) and depart on April 7 (morning).
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Marco Gualtieri ,   Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: D-branes in generalized complex manifolds
Special Note: The speaker will arrive on April 13 (morning) and depart on April 14 (night).
Abstract and details available

Friday, April 14, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 3:00pm

Professor Fedor Malikov,   University of South California

Title: From Lagrangians to sheaves of vertex algebras
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Renzo Cavalieri,   University of Michigan

Title: Hurwitz numbers and Admissible Covers
Special Note: The speaker will arrive on April 19 (night) and depart on April 21 (evening).
Abstract and details available

Friday, April 21, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 3:00pm

Professor Andrei Caldararu,   University of Wisconsin at Madison

Title: A generalized Hochschild-Kostant-Rosenberg isomorphism
Special Note: The speaker will arrive between 11-11:30am on April 21 and depart on the same day.
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Martin Markl,   Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Title: Natural differential operators and graph complexes
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 4, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor David Nadler,   Northwestern University

Title: Constructible Sheaves and the Fukaya Category
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Thursday, May 11, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 3:00pm

Professor Christopher Woodward,   Rutgers University

Title: Functoriality for Lagrangian correspondences in Floer theory and TQFT
Special Note: The speaker will arrive on May 10 (night) and depart on May 12 (morning).
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Professor Lev Rozansky,   University of North Carolina

Title: Soergel bimodules and the categorification of the 2-variable HOMFLY-PT polynomial
Abstract and details available

Friday, May 19, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Professor Vasiliy Dolgushev,   Northwestern Unversity

Title: Formality of the homotopy Gerstenhaber algebra of Hochschild cochains of a regular algebra
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Jiun-Cheng Chen,   Northwestern University

Title: On Mukai conjecture for singular varieties
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