Boston University Geometry Seminar Fall 2004 Wed 3:00 - 4:00 in Room MCS 148 Tea: 2:45 - 3:00 in Room MCS 153

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• Directions to the BU math department.
• A map of our building (see building 26).

September 29	Vasiliy Dolgushev (MIT) A proof of Tsygan's Formality Conjecture for an arbitrary smooth manifold
October 6	Eaman Eftekhary (Harvard) Embedded curves and Gromov-Witten invariants of three-fold
October 13	Richard Melrose (MIT) Local line bundles, Toeplitz operators and star products
October 20	Xiaobo Liu (Notre Dame) Idempotents on the big phase space
October 27	Gabriele Mondello (MIT) Combinatorial and tautological classes on the moduli space of curves
November 3	No Seminar due to the Clay Research Fellow Lectures
Special Time and Room November 10 4:00-5:00 Room MCS 149 Tea: 3:45-4:00 in MCS 153	Izzet Coskun (MIT) Characteristic numbers for surfaces
November 17	Eric Sommers (U. Mass. Amherst) Computing the Lustzig-Vogan bijection
November 24	No Seminar Fall Recess
December 1	Tyler Jarvis (Brigham Young) Generalization of Witten's conjecture for quasi-homogeneous polynomials
December 8	Alexei Oblomkov (MIT) Quantization of the affine Del Pezzo surfaces

• A list of our past seminars from Fall 1997, Spring 1998, Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Fall 2001, Spring 2002, Fall 2003 , and Spring 2004 .
• See The Mathematical Gazette for a list of all math talks in Boston area.
• For further information, contact
  • Takashi Kimura at kimura@math.bu.edu
  • Maxim Vybornov at vybornov@math.bu.edu

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