Boston University Geometry Seminar Fall 2011 Wed. 4:00 - 5:00 in Room MCS B21 Tea: 3:45 - 4:00 in Room MCS 144

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

Sep. 21	Aaron Naber (MIT) Quantitative stratification and regularity for Einstein manifolds, minimal surfaces, and harmonic maps.
Sep. 28	Thomas Willwacher (Harvard) Chern characters and polyvector fields.
Oct. 5	Luke Cherveny (Brandeis) Gromow-Witten theory with descedants in genus zero via the mirror principle
Oct. 12	Marco Aldi (Brandeis) Nil-manifolds, loop spaces, and OPE's.
Oct. 19	Chris Beasley (Northeastern) Supersymmetric Chern-Simons theory on a contact manifold.
Oct. 26	TBA
Nov. 2	TBA
Nov. 9	Dan Edidin (University of Missouri)
Nov. 16	TBA
Nov. 23	TBA
Nov. 30	TBA
Dec. 7	Si Li (Northwestern)

• 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 , Spring 2009 , Fall 2010 , Spring 2011
• 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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