Boston University Geometry and Physics Seminar
Fall 2013

Wed. 4:00 - 5:00 in Room MCS 148

Tea: 3:45 - 4:00 in Room MCS 144



Sep 4
Hiro Lee Tanaka
(Harvard)
Algebraic K Theory, Bridgeland Stability Conditions, and Factorization Homology over the Circle
Sep 11
Mboyo Esole
(Harvard)
The Geometry of F-theory: three tales on elliptic fibrations and resolutions of singularities
Sep 18
Matt Szczesny
(Boston)
Algebraic geometry and representation theory over F_1
Sep 25


TBA
Oct 2
Ke Zhu
(Harvard)
Isometric embeddings via heat kernel
Oct 9
Xiaojing Chen/ Feng Guan
(UCLA)
Hodge metric completion of the Teichmuller space of Calabi-Yau manifolds
Oct 16
Michael Farber
(Warwick)
Geometry and Topology of random 2-complexes
Friday, Oct 25
Nick Rozenblyum
(Northwestern)
Derived geometry and quantization of cotangent field theories
Oct 30
Valentino Tosatti
(Northwestern)
Degenerations of Calabi-Yau manifolds
Nov 6
Parker Lowrey
(Wisconsin)
Virtual Grothendieck-Riemann-Roch via derived schemes
Nov 13
David Ayala
(USC)
Poincare' Koszul duality and factorization homology
Nov 20
Qile Chen
(Columbia)
Decomposition formula for log Gromov-Witten invariants
Nov 26
Jie Zhou
(Harvard)
Solving for topological string partition functions genus by genus in terms of modular forms
Nov 27
Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving
Dec 4
Ping Xu
(Penn State)
Atiyah classes and homotopy algebras
Dec 11
Mahmoud Zeinalian
(Long Island)
An elementary model for differential K-theory

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