Boston University Geometry Seminar
Fall 2005
Wed 4:00 - 5:00 in Room MCS 148
Tea: 3:45 - 4:00 in Room MCS 153
Directions
to the
BU math department
.
A
map
of our building (see building 26).
October 5
Pan Peng
(Harvard)
On a ring structure of topological
string partition function
October 12
Hiroyuki Matsumoto
(Nagoya U.)
Brownian motions on hyperbolic spaces
and Selberg trace formula
October 19
Reimundo Heluani
(MIT)
Super Vertex Algebras and Super Curves
October 26
Tara Holm
(U. Conn. at Storrs)
Orbifold cohomology of abelian symplectic reductions
Special Date, Time, and Room
November 3
3:30-4:30
Room MCS B23
Tea: 3-3:30 in MCS 153
Marco Gualtieri
(MIT)
Quotients of Courant algebroids and generalized geometries
November 9
Jacob Lurie
(Harvard)
Elliptic cohomology and
derived algebraic geometry
November 16
Katrin Wendland
(Chapel Hill and Warwick)
A duality between "nearly attractive" quartic K3's
and Z_4 orbifold limits of K3
Special Date, Time, and Room
November 17
3:30-4:30
Room MCS 149
Tea: 3-3:30 in MCS 153
Jonathan Weitsman
(Santa Cruz)
Measures on Banach Manifolds and
Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theory
November 23
Fall Recess
No Seminar
November 30
Veronique Godin
(Harvard)
String topology and the combinatorics
of the mapping class group
December 7
Elizabeth Mann
(MIT)
Langlands duality for real groups, via the affine Grassmannian
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
,
Spring 2004
,
Fall 2004
, and
Spring 2005
.
See
The Mathematical Gazette
for a list of all math talks in Boston area.
For further information, contact
Takashi Kimura
at kimura(at)math(dot)bu(dot)edu
Matthew Szczesny
szczesny(at)math(dot)bu(dot)edu.
Visitors since January 23, 2001
