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

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

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

• 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 , Fall 2011 , Spring 2012 , Fall 2012 , Spring 2013
• See The Mathematical Gazette for a list of all math talks in Boston area.
• For further information, contact
  • Si Li at sili(at)math(dot)bu(dot)edu
  • Ryan Grady regrady(at)math(dot)bu(dot)edu.

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