Boston University
Geometry Seminar Schedule
Fall 1999

Directions to the Boston University Department of Mathematics.

A map showing the location of the math department (building 24).

Wed Sep 22, 1999, 4-5pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 3:30pm, MCS 153.
Michael Polyak (Tel Aviv)
Gauss diagram formulas
for Vassiliev invariants
Wed Sep 29, 1999, 4-5pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 3:30pm, MCS 153.
Igor Dolgachev (Michigan)
Conjugacy classes of
elements of finite order in
the plane Cremona group
Wed Oct 6, 1999, 4-5pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 3:30pm, MCS 153.
Klaus Hulek (Hannover)
Examples of Siegel modular
varieties which have
a Calabi-Yau model
Note: Special Time and Room
Wed Oct 13, 1999, 3-4pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 2:30pm, MCS 153.
Paolo Aluffi (Florida State)
Characteristic classes of
singular varieties
Wed Oct 20, 1999, 4-5pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 3:30pm, MCS 153.
Alexander Braverman (MIT)
Geometry of parabolic
Drinfeld spaces
Wed Oct 27, 1999, 4-5pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 3:30pm, MCS 153.
Henri Moscovici (Ohio State and CMI)
Hopf algebras in
transverse geometry
Note: Special Time and Room
Wed Nov 3, 1999, 3-4pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 180
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 2:30pm, MCS 153.
Tyler Jarvis (BYU)
The Generalized Witten Conjecture
and Moduli Spaces of
Higher Spin Curves
Wed Nov 17, 1999, 4-5pm
Math/Computer Science, Room MSC 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 3:30pm, MCS 153
Stefan Stolz (Notre Dame)
Spinor bundles on
loop spaces
Wed Dec 1, 1999, 4-5pm
Math/Computer Science, Room MSC 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 3:30pm, MCS 153
Ivan Mirkovic (U. Mass. Amherst)
Group theory encoded in
the Loop Grassmannian
Note: Special Time and Room
Fri Dec 10, 1999, 3-4pm
Math/Computer Science, Room B46
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 2:30pm, MCS 153
Grigory Mihkalkin (Harvard)
Geometry of
holomorphic amoebas

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A list of past speakers from Fall 1997, Spring 1998, Fall 1998, and Spring 1999.

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