Thursday, January 19, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Ted Stadnik,   Northwestern

Title: Tilting sheaves in characteristic zero via positive characteristic geometry
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Ted Stadnik,   Northwestern

Title: Azumaya algebras on symplectic quotients
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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Sergey Shadrin,   University of Amsterdam

Title: Introduction to the Givental theory (pre-talk)
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Xinwen Zhu,   Harvard University

Title: Adelic unformization of moduli of G-bundles
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:10pm

Sergey Shadrin,   University of Amsterdam

Title: Applications of the Givental theory
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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Mike Skirvin,   Northwestern

Title: Geometry of algebraic curves
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Mike Skirvin,   Northwestern

Title: Global Springer theory for SL_2
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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Kevin Costello,   Northwestern

Title: Mathematical aspects of supersymmetric gauge theories
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Ian Le,   Northwestern

Title: Higher Laminations and Affine Buildings
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Ian Le,   Northwestern

Title: Higher Laminations and Affine Buildings
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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Alex Eskin,   UChicago

Title: Rational billiards and the SL(2,R) action on modui space.
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Alex Eskin,   UChicago

Title: Rational billiards and the SL(2,R) action on modui space.
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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Helge Ruddat,   Mainz

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

Helge Ruddat,   Mainz

Title: Towards mirror symmetry for varieties of general type
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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Alexei Oblomkov,   UMass Amherst

Title: Pre-talk
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 3:30pm

Alexei Oblomkov,   UMass Amherst

Title: Khovanov-Rozansky invariants of knots, plane curve singularities and Cherednik algebras
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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 1:00pm

Alberto Cattaneo,   University of Zurich

Title: Classical and quantum Lagrangian field theories with boundaries I
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Alberto Cattaneo,   University of Zurich

Title: Classical and quantum Lagrangian field theories with boundaries II
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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Pavel Mnëv,  

Title: Classical and quantum Lagrangian field theories with boundaries III
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Pavel Mnëv,  

Title: Classical and quantum Lagrangian field theories with boundaries IV
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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Dan Abramovich,   Brown University

Title: Logarithmic Gromov-Witten invariants
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Friday, April 20, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:00pm

Dan Abramovich,   Brown

Title: Logarithmic Gromov-Witten invariants
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Arun Ram,   Melbourne

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

Arun Ram,   Melbourne

Title: Generalized equivariant cohomology of flag varieties
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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Alastair Hamilton,   Texas Tech

Title: Moduli spaces, noncommutative geometry and characteristic classes.
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Alastair Hamilton,   Texas Tech

Title: Compactifications of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces and a noncommutative BV-formalism
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Thursday, May 3, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Gabriel Kerr,   Miami

Title: Subdivisions of polytopes
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Gabriel Kerr,   Miami

Title: Symplectomorphism group relations and mirrors of birational maps
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Dennis Gaitsgory,   Harvard

Title: Outline of the proof of Geometric Langlands for GL(2)
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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Sam Gunningham,   NU

Title: Spin Hurwitz Numbers and TQFT
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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Kai Behrend,   University of British Columbia

Title: Differential graded schemes via curved differential graded Lie algebras
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Tristan Collins,   Columbia University

Title: The singularities of the Yang-Mills flow
Special Note: Note the unusual time for the actual talk.
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Tristan Collins,   Columbia University

Title: Introduction to Yang-Mills and the Donaldson-Uhlenbeck-Yau theorem
Special Note: Note the unusual time for the pre-talk.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Pavel Safronov,   UT Austin

Title: Virasoro constraints in Drinfeld-Sokolov hierarchies
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Pavel Safronov,   UT Austin

Title: Virasoro constraints in Drinfeld-Sokolov hierarchies
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Eric Zaslow,   Northwestern University

Title: Gentle introductions to toric geometry and Morse theory
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Eric Zaslow,   Northwestern University

Title: Topology of Affine Hypersurfaces
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 1:15pm

Emily Peters,   Northwestern University

Title: Examples of factors and a subfactor or two
Special Note: Note the unusual starting time for the pretalk.
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Emily Peters,   Northwestern University

Title: The classification of small subfactors
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 4:00pm

Joey Hirsh,  

Title: Deformations with noncommutative parameters
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Friday, November 16, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 2:00pm

Scott Morrison,   Australian National University

Title: Khovanov homology for links
Special Note: Note the unusual date for the pre-talk.
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Scott Morrison,   Australian National University

Title: Khovanov homology for 4-manifolds
Special Note: Note the unusual date for the actual talk.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Vladimir Kotov,   Northwestern University

Title: A two-dimensional analog of the Atiyah-Bott theorem
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Vladimir Kotov,   Northwestern University

Title: A two-dimensional analog of the Atiyah-Bott theorem
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Yu-Shen Lin,   Harvard University

Title: Ooguri-Vafa Metric, Holomorphic Discs and SYZ Conjecture
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Yu-Shen Lin,   Harvard University

Title: Open Gromov-Witten Invariants on K3 Surfaces and Wall-Crossing
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 11:00am

Paul Bressler,   Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota

Title: Deformation quantization algebroids
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 2:00pm

Paul Bressler,   Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota

Title: Quasi-classical limits of deformation quantization algebroids
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