Boston University Geometry Seminar Fall 2010 Wed. 3:00 - 4:00 in Room PSY B53 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).

Sep. 15	Oren Ben-Bassat (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) Gerbes and the holomorphic Brauer group of complex tori
Sep. 22	Marco Aldi (Brandeis) Twisted T-duality and Quantization.
Sep. 29	Miranda Cheng (Harvard) K3 surfaces and a Moonshine for Mathieu 24
Special Date/Time Oct. 8 3-4 pm in MCS 149 Tea 2:45-3 in MCS 153	Yu-Jong Tzeng (Harvard University) Universal Formulas for Counting Nodal Curves on Surfaces
Oct. 13	Hsian-Hua Tseng (Ohio State) A duality of etale gerbes.
Oct 20	Sachin Gautam (Northeastern) Yangians and quantum loop algebras
Oct. 27	Refik Inanc Baykur (Brandeis) Smooth four-manifolds, surgeries along tori, and exotica.
Nov. 3	TBA
Nov. 10	Tyler Jarvis (Brigham Young University) Moduli of Curves with W-structure, Mirror Symmetry, and the Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence
Special Date/Time Nov. 15 3-4 pm in MCS 135 Tea 2:45-3 in MCS 153	Simon Scott (King's College, London) Logarithms, torsion, and TQFT
Special Date/Time Nov. 22 3-4 pm in MCS 135 Tea 2:45-3 in MCS 153	Nick Proudfoot (University of Oregon) Category O for symplectic resolutions
Dec. 1	Oliver Lorscheid ( CUNY ) Sheaves and K-theory for F_1 - schemes.
Dec. 8	Tomoo Matsumura ( Cornell ) Hamiltonian torus actions on orbifolds.

• 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 , Spring 2009 , Fall 2009 , 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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