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
Abstract and details available

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
Abstract and details available

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
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Robin Koytcheff,   Brown University

Title: A homotopy-theoretic view of Bott-Taubes integrals and knot spaces
Abstract and details available

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
Abstract and details available

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
Abstract and details available

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
Abstract and details available

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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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

David Treumann,   Northwestern

Title: Smith theory and Geometric Hecke algebras
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 1:00pm

Kate Poirier,   Berkeley

Title: String diagrams, moduli spaces and string topology
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Kate Poirier,   Berkeley

Title: String topology & compactified moduli space of Riemann surfaces
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 2:00pm

David Hyeon,   Postech

Title: Pretalk: Construction of moduli spaces of curves
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

David Hyeon,   Postech

Title: Log MMP for the moduli space of stable curves
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 1:00pm

Rina Anno,   Chicago

Title: Spherical functors
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Rina Anno,   Chicago

Title: Spherical twists as derived flops
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Chenyang Xu,   MIT

Title: Boundedness of algebraic varieties
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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 1:00pm

Valentino Tosatti,   Columbia

Title: Calabi-Yau manifolds
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Valentino Tosatti,   Columbia

Title: How do Calabi-Yau manifolds degenerate?
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Josh Guffin,   UPenn

Title: Quantum Sheaf Cohomology (cancelled)
Abstract and details available

Friday, February 4, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 3pm

Alina Marian,   UIC

Title: The moduli space of stable quotients
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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 1:00pm

Andrei Caldararu,   Wisconsin

Title: TBA
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Andrei Caldararu,   Wisconsin

Title: A study of derived self-intersections
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 1:00pm

AJ Tolland,   SUNY Stonybrook

Title: TBA
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

AJ Tolland,   SUNY Stonybrook

Title: Cohomological Field Theories on the Lattice
Abstract and details available

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 1:00pm

Gabor Szekelyhidi,   Columbia

Title: Extremal Kahler metrics
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Gabor Szekelyhidi,   Columbia

Title: On blowing up extremal Kahler manifolds
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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 1:00pm

Matthew Ando,   UIUC

Title: Complex analytic equivariant elliptic cohomology
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Matthew Ando,   UIUC

Title: The Equivariant elliptic cohomology and fibered WZW models
Abstract and details available

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Yan Soibelman,   Kansas State

Title: Complex integrable systems,Mirror Symmetry and Donaldson-Thomas invariants
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 4:00pm

Thomas Willwacher,   Harvard

Title: Cancelled
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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 1:00pm

Kiumars Kaveh,   Pittsburgh

Title: Pretalk: Volume of convex polytopes and number of solutions of a system of algebraic equations
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Kiumars Kaveh,   Pittsburgh

Title: Convex bodies, algebraic varieties and group actions
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Tom Nevins,   UIUC

Title: TBA
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Tom Nevins,   UIUC

Title: Moduli spaces of points on some quantum varieties
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 4:00pm

Ezra Getzler,   Northwestern

Title: Differential graded Banach algebras and Lie infinity-groupoids (joint work with Kai Behrend)
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Nicolo Sibilla,   NU

Title: Ribbon Graphs and Mirror Symmetry.
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Josh Guffin,   UPenn

Title: Quantum Sheaf Cohomology
Abstract and details available

Friday, April 22, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 2:00pm

Professor Michael Douglas,   Simons Center for Geomery and Physics

Title: A holographic dual of free quantum field theory
Special Note: Note the unusual time and date
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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 2:00pm

Ryan Grady,   Notre Dame

Title: Categorical traces and field theories
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Stephan Stolz,   Notre Dame

Title: Field theories and cohomology
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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 1:00pm

David Speyer,   Michigan

Title: TBA
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

David Speyer,   Michigan

Title: Projected Richardson Varieties
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Thomas Bitoun ,   MIT

Title: D-modules mod p and microlocalization
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Richard Wentworth,   University of Maryland

Title: Gluing formulas for determinants of Dolbeault laplacians on Riemann surfaces
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 1:00pm

John Baldwin,   Princeton

Title: TBA
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

John Baldwin,   Princeton

Title: A combinatorial spanning tree model for knot Floer homology.
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Robert Lipshitz,   Columbia

Title: Bordered Heegaard Floer homology: why? (and what?)
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