Boston University Geometry Seminar Fall 2008 Wed 4:00 - 5:00 in Room MCS 149 Tea: 3:45 - 4:00 in Room MCS 153

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• A map showing the department and our building (Building 31).

September 24	Takashi Kimura (Boston University) A relative Riemann-Hurwitz theorem and orbifold Gromov-Witten theory
October 1	Roman Fedorov (Boston University) Langlands transform: irregular singularities.
October 8	John Duncan (Harvard) Fuchsian groups and affine Dynkin diagrams
October 15	Yunfeng Jiang (University of Utah) The quantum orbifold cohomology of root gerbes.
October 22	Florent Schaffhauser (Keio University) A real convexity theorem for quasi-Hamiltonian actions
October 29	Yaron Ostrover (MIT) On algebraic properties of the quantum homology.
November 5	Gleb Gusev (Moscow State University, Independent University of Moscow, and MIPT) Monodromy zeta-functions of deformations and Newton diagrams
November 12	David Fried (Boston University) Kleinian groups with two parabolic generators
November 19	Soren Galatius (Stanford) Spaces of graphs and homology of automorphism groups of free groups
November 26	No seminar
December 3	Pedram Hekmati (KTH and MIT) TBA
December 10	TBA

• Past seminars: 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 , Spring 2007 , Fall 2007 . and Spring 2008 .
• 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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