Boston University
Geometry Seminar Schedule
Spring 2000

Directions to the Boston University Department of Mathematics.

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

Wed Jan 12, 2000, 3-4pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 2:30pm, MCS 153.
Mikhail Grinberg (MIT)
Gradient-Like Flows and
Self-Indexing in Stratified
Morse Theory
Wed Feb 2, 2000, 3-4pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 2:30pm, MCS 153.
Tom Braden (Harvard)
Equivariant Intersection
Cohomology of Toric Varieties
Note: Special Date
Fri Feb 11, 2000, 3-4pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 2:30pm, MCS 153.
Angelo Vistoli (Bologna)

Brauer Groups
and Quotient Stacks
Wed Feb 16, 2000, 3-4pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 2:30pm, MCS 153.
Vadim Vologodski (Harvard)
Cohomological Formula for the Measure
of X(K) Where X is an Abelian Variety
or a K3 Surface Over a Local Field K
Wed Feb 23, 2000, 3-4pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 2:30pm, MCS 153.
Dennis Gaitsgory (Harvard)
On Drinfeld's Compactifications
And Their Applications to
Automorphic Sheaves
Wed Mar 1, 2000, 3-4pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 2:30pm, MCS 153.
Richard Thomas (Harvard)
Mirror Symmetry and
Singularities
Note: Special Date
Fri March 17, 2000, 12-1pm
Math/Computer Science, Room B46
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 11:30pm, MCS 153.
John D. Trout (Dartmouth)
An Atiyah-Singer Topological
Index for Proper Actions
of Countable Discrete Groups
Wed Mar 22, 2000, 3-4pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 2:30pm, MCS 153.
Chien-Hao Liu (Harvard)
Mirror symmetry via Euler data
and the splitting type of equivariant
vector bundles over toric manifolds
Wed Mar 29, 2000, 3-4pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 2:30pm, MCS 153.
Bong Lian (Brandeis)
Multiplicative Intersection Numbers
Wed Apr 5, 2000, 3-4pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 2:30pm, MCS 153.
José Figueroa-O'Farrill (Edinburgh)
D-Branes on group manifolds
Note: Special Date
Fri Apr 14, 2000, 3-4pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 2:30pm, MCS 153.
Alexander Kirillov (Stony Brook)
The Lego-Teichmuller game
Wed Apr 19, 2000, 3-4pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 2:30pm, MCS 153.
Ravil Vakil (MIT)
Hurwitz numbers and Hodge integrals
Note: Special Date
Fri Apr 28, 2000, 3-4pm
Math/Computer Science, Room B46
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 2:30pm, MCS 153.
Lev Borisov (Columbia)
Vertex algebras and mirror symmetry
Wed May 3, 2000, 3-4pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 2:30pm, MCS 153.
Stephen Sawin (Fairfield)
Chern-Simons theory, spin and framed
three-manifolds, and the conjectures
of Dijkgraaf and Witten

Click The Gazette Page for a list of all math talks in Boston area.

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

For further information, please contact Takashi Kimura at kimura@math.bu.edu
or Alexander Polishchuk at apolish@math.bu.edu

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