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
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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
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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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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Vivek Shende,   MIT

Title: Quantum invariants of plane curve singularities
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Xiaokui Yang,   Northwestern University

Title: Positive vector bundles and vanishing theorems
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Xiaokui Yang,   Northwestern University

Title: Positivity and vanishing theorems for ample vector bundles
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Vasily Pestun,   IAS

Title: Moduli spaces of instantons and quantum groups
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Vasily Pestun,   IAS

Title: Moduli spaces of instantons and quantum groups
Special Note: Note the unusual time!
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Chitrabhanu Chaudhuri,   Northwestern University

Title: Affine Stratification Number and Moduli Space of Curves
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Chitrabhanu Chaudhuri,  

Title: Cohomological Excess and compactified Moduli Space of Curves
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Friday, February 8, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       102, 1:00pm

Danny Calegari,   University of Chicago

Title: Surface subgroups from linear programming
Special Note: Please not the unusual time and place.
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       107, 3:00pm

Danny Calegari,   University of Chicago

Title: Surface subgroups from linear programming
Special Note: Please not the unusual time and place.
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Ailsa Keating,   MIT

Title: Dehn twists and free subgroups of the symplectic mapping class group
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Ailsa Keating,   MIT

Title: Dehn twists and free subgroups of the symplectic mapping class group
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Yan Soibelman,   Kansas State University

Title: BPS algebras,knot invariants,framed instantons and canonical bases
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Jacques Distler,   UT Austin

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

Jacques Distler,   UT Austin

Title: Tinkertoys
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Thursday, March 7, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Daniel Berwick-Evans,   UC Berkeley

Title: Supersymmetric sigma models, elliptic cohomology and the Witten genus
Special Note: Note the unusual day!
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Josh Batson,   MIT

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

Josh Batson,   MIT

Title: Nonorientable slice genus can be arbitrarily large
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Gabriel C. Drummond-Cole,   Northwestern University

Title: A-infinity algebras
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Gabriel C. Drummond-Cole,   Northwestern University

Title: Homotopy algebra and probability theory
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 11:00am

Dario Beraldo,   UC Berkeley

Title: On the chiral Whittaker category of the affine Grassmannian
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Dario Beraldo,   UC Berkeley

Title: On the chiral Whittaker category of the affine Grassmannian
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 11:00am

Andy Neitzke,   UT Austin

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

Andy Neitzke,   UT Austin

Title: Spectral networks
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Clay Cordova,   Harvard University

Title: Quivers and Quantum Field Theory
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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 11:00am

Eric Zaslow,   Northwestern University

Title: Legendrian Knot Categories and BPS spaces
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Eric Zaslow,   Northwestern University

Title: Legendrian Knot Categories and BPS spaces
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 10:00am

Ezra Getzler,   Northwestern University

Title: Higher analytic stacks
Special Note: This is the first of two talks: the second will be at 1.30pm.
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 11:30am

Paul Bressler,   Universidad de los Andes, Bogota

Title: Chern-Weil construction for transitive Lie algebroids
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 2:00pm

Ezra Getzler,   Northwestern University

Title: Derived analytic stacks
Special Note: This is the second of two talks: no prerequisites are required.
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 10:00am

Paul Bressler & Boris Tsygan,  

Title: Algebraic Index Theory, I
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 11:00am

Ezra Getzler,   Northwestern University

Title: Derived analytic stacks
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 2:00pm

Paul Bressler & Boris Tsygan,  

Title: Algebraic Index Theory, II
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