Boston University Geometry Seminar Fall 2009 Wed 3:00 - 4:00 in Room PSY B12 Tea: 2:45 - 3:00 in Room MCS 153

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• Directions to the BU math department.
• A map showing the department building (Building 31).

September 23	Brett Kotschwar (MIT) Backwards uniqueness of the Ricci Flow
September 30	Eli Grigsby (Boston College) On Khovanov and Heegaard Floer homology
October 7	Xinwen Zhu (Harvard) Gerbal representations of double loop groups
October 14	Alina Marian (Harvard and UIC) The moduli space of stable quotients
October 21	Ivan Losev (MIT) Deformation quantization and W-algebras
October 28	Spencer Bloch (Chicago) The geometry of Feynman amplitudes and Landau poles II
November 4	Alexei Oblomkov (UMass Amherst) The Gromov-Witten/Donaldson-Thomas correspondence with descendants
November 11	Holiday - No seminar
November 18	No Seminar .
November 25	Thanksgiving - No seminar
December 2	Chris Schommer-Pries (Harvard) Classifying extended topological field theories in low dimensions
December 9	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 . Spring 2008 , Fall 2008 , and Spring 2009
• 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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