Thursday, September 21, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Umut Varolgunes,   MIT

Title: Mayer-Vietoris sequence for relative symplectic cohomology
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Umut Varolgunes,   MIT

Title: Mayer-Vietoris sequence for relative symplectic cohomology
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Jun Zhang,   Tel Aviv University

Title: Applications of persistent homology in symplectic and Riemannian geometry
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Jun Zhang,   Tel Aviv University

Title: Applications of persistent homology in symplectic and Riemannian geometry
Special Note: Pre-talk at 1:00pm
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Thursday, October 5, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Laura Starkston,   Stanford University

Title: Weinstein handles: symplectic Morse theory
Special Note: Pre-talk
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Laura Starkston,   Stanford University

Title: Weinstein skeleta and arboreal singularities
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Thursday, October 12, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 1:00pm

Harrison Chen,   UC Berkeley

Title: Equivariant localization for cyclic cohomology
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Harrison Chen,   UC Berkeley

Title: Equivariant localization for cyclic cohomology
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Thursday, October 19, 2017

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Yuan Wang,   Northwestern

Title: Pre-talk
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Yuan Wang,   Northwestern

Title: Characterization of abelian varieties for log pairs
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Diletta Martinelli,   Univ. of Edinburgh

Title: Pre-talk: Introduction to the MMP with a focus on the Abundance Conjecture
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Diletta Martinelli,   Univ. of Edinburgh

Title: Rational curves on fibered Calabi-Yau manifolds
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Thursday, November 2, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Stéphane Guillermou,   Grenoble

Title: The microlocal theory of sheaves
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Stéphane Guillermou,   Grenoble

Title: The three cusps conjecture
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Thursday, November 9, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Andrei Caldararu,   Madison

Title: Algebraic structures for categorical Gromov-Witten invariants
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Andrei Caldararu,   Wisconsin

Title: Computing a categorical Gromov-Witten invariant
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Thursday, November 16, 2017

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Howard Nuer,   UIC

Title: Pre-talk: Connections between cubic fourfolds and hyperkähler manifolds via derived categories and Bridgeland stability
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Howard Nuer,   UIC

Title: Stability conditions in families and families of Hyperkähler varieties
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Thursday, November 30, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Jo Nelson,   Columbia University

Title: Reeb Dynamics and Contact Invariants
Special Note: Pre-talk
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Jo Nelson,   Columbia University

Title: Reeb dynamics of prequantization bundles via contact homology
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Geometry/Physics Seminar       TBA, 3:00pm

Pavel Mnev,   University of Notre Dame

Title: Two-dimensional abelian BF theory in Lorenz gauge as a B-twisted (2,2)-superconformal field theory
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Thursday, January 11, 2018

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Sung-Jin Oh,   KIAS

Title: The Threshold Theorem for the hyperbolic Yang-Mills equation
Abstract and details available

Monday, January 22, 2018

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 104, 3:00pm

Steven Sam,   University of Wisconsin, Madison

Title: Noetherianity in representation theory
Special Note: Note: unusual time and place!
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Thursday, February 8, 2018

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Yuchen Liu,  

Title: Pre-talk: normalized volumes of valuations and K-stability of Fano varieties
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Yuchen Liu,   Yale University

Title: K-stability of cubic threefolds
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Thursday, February 15, 2018

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Bahar Acu,   Northwestern

Title: Iterated planar contact manifolds
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Thursday, February 22, 2018

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

James Conway,   UC Berkeley

Title: Contact structures: fillings, knots, and surgery
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

James Conway,   UC Berkeley

Title: Fillability of positive contact surgeries
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Thursday, March 1, 2018

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Sam Nariman,   Northwestern University

Title: On characteristic classes in symplectic topology
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Thursday, March 8, 2018

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 1:00pm

Yu Pan,   MIT

Title: Pretalk: Introduction to the Legendrian contact homology
Special Note: Please note the change of room!
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Yu Pan,   MIT

Title: Augmentations and exact Lagrangian cobordisms
Abstract and details available

Thursday, March 15, 2018

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 105, 1:00pm

Alexander Perry,  

Title: Pre-talk: Derived categories, birational geometry, and Hodge theory
Abstract and details available

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Alexander Perry,   Columbia University

Title: Deformation and derived equivalent but non-birational Calabi-Yau threefolds
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Thursday, April 12, 2018

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Enrico Arbarello,   Università di Roma, La Sapienza

Title: Hyperplane Sections of K3 Surfaces
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Thursday, April 26, 2018

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Benjamin Bakker,   Univ. of Georgia

Title: Hodge theory and o-minimal geometry
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 3, 2018

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Tommaso de Fernex,   University of Utah

Title: Pre-talk: Mumford's simplicity criterion for normal surface singularities
Abstract and details available

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Tommaso de Fernex,   Univ. of Utah

Title: A simplicity criterion for normal isolated singularities
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Thursday, May 10, 2018

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Brian Lehmann,   Boston College

Title: Pre-talk: The exceptional set in Manin's Conjecture
Abstract and details available

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Brian Lehmann,   Boston College

Title: The exceptional set in Manin's Conjecture
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Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 11:00am

Ezra Getzler ,  

Title: The Chern character as a differential form on the derived stack of perfect complexes
Abstract and details available

Thursday, August 9, 2018

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 11:00am

Boris Tsygan,  

Title: Chern character of a perfect complex
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 11:00am

Vasily Dolgushev,   Temple University

Title: GT-shadows and their action on child's drawings
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