Boston University Geometry Seminar Fall 2007 Wed 4:00 - 5:00 in Room 149 Tea: 3:45 - 4:00 in Room 153

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• Directions to the BU math department.
• A map of our building (Building 27).

October 10	Gabor Szekelyhidi (Imperial College) Optimal test-configurations and the Calabi flow on toric varieties
Special Date October 16 Tea: 2:45 in MCS 153 Talk: 3:00 in MCS 149	Jonathan Wise (Brown University) Enumerative geometry of hyperelliptic curves in P^2
October 24	Mohammed Abouzaid (MIT) Homological mirror symmetry and tropical geometry
October 31	Marco Gualtieri (MIT) Bi-Hermitian metrics and Poisson modules
Special Bonus Seminar November 6 Tea: 3:15 Room MCS 149 Talk: 3:30 Room MCS 149	David Nadler (Northwestern University) Springer theory for symplectic geometers
November 7	Linda Chen (Ohio State University at Columbus) Orbifold Gromov-Witten theory and enumeration of plane curves
November 14	Hsian-Hua Tseng (University of Wisconsin at Madison) Gromov-Witten theory of twisted projective lines and integrable hierarchies
November 21	No Seminar Fall Recess
November 28	No Seminar
December 5	Takashi Kimura (Boston University) The Hurwitz-Hodge bundle and orbifold Gromov-Witten theory
December 12	Mikhail Shubin (Northeastern University) Talk cancelled.

• 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 , Spring 2005 , Fall 2005 , Spring 2006 , Fall 2006 , and Spring 2007 .
• 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.

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