Thursday, January 10, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:10pm

Vivek Shende,   MIT

Title: Quantum invariants of plane curve singularities
Abstract and details available

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
Abstract and details available

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!
Abstract and details available

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
Abstract and details available

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.
Abstract and details available

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.
Abstract and details available

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
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Ailsa Keating,   MIT

Title: Dehn twists and free subgroups of the symplectic mapping class group
Abstract and details available

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
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Jacques Distler,   UT Austin

Title: Tinkertoys
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Jacques Distler,   UT Austin

Title: Tinkertoys
Abstract and details available

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!
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Josh Batson,   MIT

Title: TBA
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Josh Batson,   MIT

Title: Nonorientable slice genus can be arbitrarily large
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Gabriel C. Drummond-Cole,   Northwestern University

Title: A-infinity algebras
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Gabriel C. Drummond-Cole,   Northwestern University

Title: Homotopy algebra and probability theory
Abstract and details available

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
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Dario Beraldo,   UC Berkeley

Title: On the chiral Whittaker category of the affine Grassmannian
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 11:00am

Andy Neitzke,   UT Austin

Title: Spectral networks
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Andy Neitzke,   UT Austin

Title: Spectral networks
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Clay Cordova,   Harvard University

Title: Quivers and Quantum Field Theory
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 11:00am

Eric Zaslow,   Northwestern University

Title: Legendrian Knot Categories and BPS spaces
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Eric Zaslow,   Northwestern University

Title: Legendrian Knot Categories and BPS spaces
Abstract and details available

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.
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 11:30am

Paul Bressler,   Universidad de los Andes, Bogota

Title: Chern-Weil construction for transitive Lie algebroids
Abstract and details available

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.
Abstract and details available

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
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 2:00pm

Paul Bressler & Boris Tsygan,  

Title: Algebraic Index Theory, II
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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 2:00pm

Theo Johnson-Freyd,   Northwestern

Title: A properad action on homology that fails to lift to the chain level
Special Note: Please note the unusual time
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Theo Johnson-Freyd,   Northwestern University

Title: Poisson AKSZ theory, properads, and quantization
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00

Dan Rutherford,   University of Arkansas

Title: TBA
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Dan Rutherford,   University of Arkansas

Title: Rulings polynomials and augmentations of Legendrian links
Abstract and details available

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00

Emmy Murphy,   MIT

Title: The plastikstufe and connect sums of contact manifolds
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Emmy Murphy,   MIT

Title: Lagrangian caps in high dimensional symplectic manifolds
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