Boston University Geometry Seminar Spring 2004 Fri 3:00 - 4:00 in Room MCS 148 Tea: 2:45 - 3:00 in Room MCS 153

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• Directions to the BU math department.
• A map of our building (see building 26).

January 16	Sylvie Paycha (Université Blaise-Pascal) Regularization methods in QFT from a pseudo-differential point of view
February 6	Maxim Vyboronov (MIT and the Max Planck Institut in Bonn) A combinatorial model of perverse sheaves
February 13	David Auckly (Kansas State, Manhattan) Analysis for the Skyrme functional
February 20	Yann Rollin (MIT) Legendrian knots and monopoles
February 27	SEMINAR RESCHEDULED FOR APRIL 9 Michael Singer (U. Edinburgh and MIT) Continued fractions, torus actions, and Einstein metrics
March 5	Maryam Mirzakhani (Harvard) Simple geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces and intersection theory on the moduli space of curves
March 12	Spring Break No Seminar
March 19	Bohui Chen (MIT) The differential structure on moduli spaces of (instantons and others)
March 26	Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach (École Polytechnique) Quasi-Lie bialgebras and bialgebroids
April 2	José Figueroa-O'Farrill (U. Edinburgh) Cones, spinors, and supersymmetry
April 9	Michael Singer (U. Edinburgh and MIT) Continued fractions, torus actions, and Einstein metrics
April 16	Bin Zhang (Stony Brook) K-twisted equivariant K-theory for SU(N)
April 23	Ruth Charney (Brandeis) A metric characterization of buildings

• A list of our past seminars from Fall 1997, Spring 1998, Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Fall 2001, Spring 2002, and Fall 2003 .
• See The Mathematical Gazette for a list of all math talks in Boston area.
• For further information, contact
  • Takashi Kimura at kimura@math.bu.edu

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