Boston University
Geometry Seminar Schedule
Fall 1997

Wed Sep 17, 1997, 4-5pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 3:30pm, MCS 153.
Takashi Kimura (Boston University)
"Tautological Classes and
Cohomological Field
Theories in Genus One
"
Wed Sep 24, 1997, 4-5pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 3:30pm, MCS 153.
Michael Farber (Tel Aviv University)
"Extended L^2 cohomology
and approximation theorems
for von Neumann-Betti numbers
"
Wed Oct 1, 1997, 4-5pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 3:30pm, MCS 153.
Rahul Pandharipande (U. Chicago)
"Methods of computing
Gromov-Witten invariants
"
Note the Special Time and Date:
Thu Oct 2, 1997, 4-5pm

Math/Computer Science, Room B46
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Philip Foth (Penn State U.)
"Formality of controlling algebra for
deformations of representations
of \pi_1 of open Kahler manifolds
"
Note the Special Time and Date:
Thu Oct 9, 1997, 3-4pm

Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 2:30pm, MCS 153.
Alexandre Kabanov (Michigan State U.)
"Moduli spaces of curves (Riemann surfaces)
and Torelli Lie algebras.
(After R. Hain.)
"
Wed Oct 15, 1997, 4-5pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 3:30pm, MCS 153.
Xiaobo Liu (MIT)
"Isoparametric submanifolds
and Chevalley restriction theorem
"
Wed Oct 22, 1997, 4-5pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 3:30pm, MCS 153.
Alexander Polishchuk (Harvard)
"Poisson brackets on
projective spaces
"
Wed Nov 5, 1997, 4-5pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 3:30pm, MCS 153.
Christopher King (Northeastern U.)
"Explicit formulas for symplectic forms
on some moduli spaces"
Wed Nov 19, 1997, 4-5pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 3:30pm, MCS 153.
Ian McIntosh (U. of Mass. at Amherst)
"Harmonic tori and
abelian integrals
"

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