Thursday, January 7, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:10pm

Justin Thomas,  

Title: the Swiss cheese operad of Voronov
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Reimundo Heluani,   UC Berkeley

Title: On quantum sigma models with non-Abelian winding
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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:10pm

Bhargav Bhatt,  

Title:
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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 2:00pm

David Hyeon,   Postech and Marshall University

Title: Geometric invariant theory and birational geometry of moduli
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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Eric Zaslow,  

Title: Applications of Microlocalization
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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Kevin Costello,  

Title: A geometric construction of the Witten genus
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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Erik Carlsson,  

Title: Vertex operators and localization
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4pm

Alina Marian,   UIC

Title: The moduli space of stable quotients
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Max Lipyanskiy,  

Title: Semi-Infinite Cycles in Floer Theory
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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Jean Bellissard,   Affiliation: Georgia Institute of Technology

Title: Riemannian Geometry of Compact Metric Spaces
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Friday, April 30, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00

Michael Douglas,  

Title: Spaces of quantum field theories
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Tom Braden,   U Mass Amherst

Title: Deformations of standard Koszul algebras and localization in equivariant cohomology.
Special Note: Note special time (3pm)
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Vasiliy Dolgushev,  

Title: Formality theorem for Hochschild cochains via transfer
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Dima Tamarkin,  

Title: Microlocal category for a symplectic manifold
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Siu-Cheong Lau,   Chinese University of Hong Kong

Title: Quantum Corrections in SYZ Mirror Symmetry
Special Note: Pre-talk aimed at graduate students; main talk at 4PM
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 4:00pm

Naichung Conan Leung,   Chinese University of Hong Kong

Title: Mirror Symmetry via SYZ Transformation for Toric Manifolds
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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 04:00pm

Susama Agarwala,   Caltech

Title: Global beta-functions under zeta-function regularization
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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 11:00am

Robin Koytcheff,   Brown University

Title: Pre-talk: Finite-type knot invariants and their generalizations
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Robin Koytcheff,   Brown University

Title: A homotopy-theoretic view of Bott-Taubes integrals and knot spaces
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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 11:00am

Si Li,   Harvard

Title: Pretalk: Feynman Diagrams, Perturbative field theory and Calabi-Yau geometry
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Si Li,   Harvard University

Title: BCOV theory on the elliptic curve and higher-genus mirror symmetry
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 11:00am

Mohammed Abouzaid,   MIT

Title: Pretalk: (Symplectic) Khovanov homology and constructible sheaves
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Mohammed Abouzaid,  

Title: (Symplectic) Khovanov homology and constructible sheaves
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 1:00pm

Yong-Geun Oh,   Wisconsin

Title: Pretalk: Counting embedded curves in Calabi-Yau threefolds and Gopakumar-Vafa invariants
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:10pm

Yong-Geun Oh,   Wisconsin

Title: Counting embedded curves in Calabi-Yau threefolds and Gopakumar-Vafa invariants
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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 1:00pm

John Huerta,   UC Riverside

Title: Division algebras, supersymmetry and Lie n-algebras
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:10pm

John Huerta,   UC Riverside

Title: Division algebras, supersymmetry and Lie n-algebras
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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 1:00pm

Louis Kauffman,   UIC

Title: An Introduction to Khovanov Homology
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Louis Kauffman,   UIC

Title: Categorified Invariants in Virtual Knot Theory
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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Tanmay Deshpande,   U of Chicago

Title: Character sheaves and minimal idempotents on unipotent groups
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Swarnendu Datta,   U of Chicago

Title: Alternating biextension of commutative unipotent groups
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 4:00pm

Alexander Polishchuk,   Oregon

Title: Hirzebruch-Riemann-Roch formula for matrix factorizations
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Thursday, December 2, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 1:00pm

Nick Rozenblyum,   MIT

Title: (Pretalk) Moduli spaces and chiral algebras
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Nick Rozenblyum,   MIT

Title: Moduli spaces and chiral algebras
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Thursday, December 9, 2010

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 1:00pm

Erik Carlsson,   NU

Title: (Pretalk) Vertex operators on the K-theory of the hilbert scheme
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Erik Carlsson,   NU

Title: Vertex operators on the K-theory of the hilbert scheme
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