Boston University Geometry Seminar Spring 2007 Wed 3:00 - 4:00 in Room 149 Tea: 2:45 - 3:00 in Room 153

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• Directions to the BU math department.
• A map of our building (Building 27).

January 31	Bailin Song (Brandeis University) A Convexity Theorem and Reduced Delzant Spaces
February 7	No Seminar
February 14	Cancelled due to the weather Ismar Volic (Wellesley College) Bott-Taubes integrals and invariants of embedding spaces
February 21	Brad Safnuk (McMaster University) Localization on the moduli of curves
February 28	Eaman Eftekhary (Harvard) Heegaard Floer homology and the existence of essential tori
Note: Special Date! March 1 Tea: 2:45 in MCS 153	Katrin Wehrheim (MIT) A symplectic category featuring Lagrangian correspondences and pseudoholomorphic quilts
March 7	Jeremy Copeland (MIT) Moduli of Rank 2 Cameral Covers
March 14	No Seminar Spring Break
March 21	Denis Auroux (MIT) Homological mirror symmetry for blowups of CP^2
March 28	Alvaro Pelayo (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor) Symplectic torus actions on four manifolds
April 4	James Sparks (Harvard) Sasaki-Einstein Manifolds
Note: Special Date and Room! April 9 at 4:00 Room: MCS 135 Tea at 3:45: MCS 137	Sylvie Paycha (Université Blaise-Pascal) Renormalised multiple sums and integrals of symbols with constraints
April 11	Stephan Tillmann (Melbourne) Volumes of representations
April 18	Kobi Kremnitzer (MIT) Quantum D-modules and applications
April 25	Ismar Volic (Wellesley College) Bott-Taubes integrals and invariants of embedding spaces
May 2	Joseph Maher (Oklahoma State) Random walks and the mapping class group

• Past seminars from Fall 1997, Spring 1998, Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Fall 2001, Spring 2002, Fall 2003 , Spring 2004 , Fall 2004 , Spring 2005 , Fall 2005 , Spring 2006 , and Fall 2006 .
• See The Mathematical Gazette for a list of all math talks in Boston area.
• For further information, contact
  • Takashi Kimura at kimura(at)math(dot)bu(dot)edu
  • Matthew Szczesny szczesny(at)math(dot)bu(dot)edu.

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