CANCELLED
January 26
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Mihnea Popa
(Harvard)
Castelnuovo theory and the geometric Schottky
problem
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Special Date and Room
January 31
Room: MCS 135
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Matthew Szczesny
(U. Penn.)
The chiral de Rham complex,
orbifolds,
elliptic genera, and automorphic forms
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Special Date and Room
February 4
Room: MCS 149
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Alessandro Chiodo
(Nice)
Compactifying the stack of higher spin
curves without ramifications
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Special Date and Room
February 7
Room: PSY B55
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Maxim Vybornov
(Boston University)
How perverse is TQFT?
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Special Date, Time, and Room
February 8 at 2pm
Room: MCS 135
Tea: 3:00 in MCS 149
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Justin Sawon
(Stony Brook)
Derived equivalence of algebraic varieties
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February 16
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Takashi Kimura
(Boston University)
The stringy K-theory of orbifolds
and the Chern character
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February 23
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Olga Plamenevskaya
(MIT)
Khovanov homology, Ozsvath-Szabo invariants,
and contact
structures
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March 2
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Andrew Linshaw
(Brandeis)
Chiral equivariant cohomology
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March 9
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No Seminar
Spring Break
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March 16
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Ilia Zharkov
(Harvard)
Kahler affine structures and Calabi conjecture
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Special Date, Time, and Room
March 22, 12-1
Room: PSY B35
Tea 11:30-12 in MCS 153
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John M. Lee
(U. Washington Seattle)
A new approach to the local CR embedding problem
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March 23
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Raphael Ponge
(Ohio State)
A new short proof of the local index formula
of Atiyah-Singer
and some of its applications
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March 30
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Satyan Devadoss
(Williams)
An introduction to graph-associahedra
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April 6
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No Seminar
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April 13
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Tom Braden
(U. Mass. Amherst)
Koszul duality for perverse sheaves on dual toric varieties
(joint work with V. Lunts)
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April 20
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No Seminar
Monday Class Schedule
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April 27
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Dragos Oprea
(MIT)
The Vafa-Intriligator formula via virtual localization
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May 4
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Tom Coates
(Harvard)
Three views of the J-function
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