Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Geometry/Physics Seminar
Year 2006
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
Abstract and details available
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
Abstract and details available
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
Abstract and details available
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
Abstract and details available
- 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
Contact info here
Thursday, September 21, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Vasily Dolgushev,
- Title: Modular symmetry of Poisson manifolds and the Van den Bergh duality
Abstract and details available
Thursday, September 28, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Gabriel Kerr, University of Chicago,
- Title: Weighted Blowups and Homological Mirror Symmetry of Toric Surfaces
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 5, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4pm
- Professor Sergiy Koshkin,
- Title: Large N Duality between 3-manifolds and Calabi-Yau 3-folds
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 12, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Albrecht Klemm, University of Wisconsin,
- Title: Modular forms and topological strings on compact Calabi-Yau manifolds
Contact info here
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 101, 3:00pm
- Professor David Treumann,
- Title: Constructible stacks
Abstract and details available
Friday, October 20, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 3:00pm
- Professor Alexandre Karabegov, Abilene Christian University
- Title: A formal model of the Berezin-Toeplitz quantization
Abstract and details available
Thursday, October 26, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Dima Tamarkin,
- Title: A category of microlocal sheaves on a symplectic manifold
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 2, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 2:30pm
- Professor Ludmil Katzarkov,
- Title: TBA
Contact info here
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Vasily Pestun, Princeton University
- Title: Topological strings in generalized CY manifolds
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 9, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Professor Yan Soibelman,
- Title: Geometry and algebra of Calabi-Yau varieties
Abstract and details available
Thursday, November 30, 2006
- Geometry/Physics Seminar
Lunt 107, 4:00pm
- Dmitriy Boyarchenko, University of Chicago
- Title: Characters of unipotent groups over finite fields (Joint work with Vladimir Drinfeld)
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