Boston University Geometry Seminar
Spring 2008

Wed 3:00 - 4:00 in Room MCS 149

Tea: 2:45 - 3:00 in Room MCS 153

January 23
Tomoo Matsumura
(Max Planck Institut für Mathematik, Bonn)
Calculus in a braided tensor category and
a model for stringy quantum cohomology
Special Date!
January 31
Tea: 2:30 in MCS 180
Talk: 3:00 in MCS B46
Roman Fedorov
(University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
Langlands Transform and Painleve Equations
Special Date!
February 4
Tea: 3:30 in MCS 137
Talk: 4:00 in MCS B46
Brad Safnuk
(McMaster University)
Symplectic structures on ribbon graph complexes
Special Date!
February 5
Tea: 2:30 in MCS 153
Talk: 3:00 in MCS 149
Peter Dalakov
(University of Pennsylvania)
Higgs bundles and opers
February 13
No Seminar
Faculty meeting at this time
February 20
The seminar is cancelled!
Yongbin Ruan
(University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)
Crepant resolution via the Givental formalism
February 27
Allan Adams
(MIT)
The seminar is cancelled!
March 5
Vincent Bouchard
(Harvard)
Mirror symmetry, matrix models and
(open) orbifold Gromov-Witten invariants
March 12
Spring Break
No Seminar
Special Date and Time
March 20
Tea: 2:45-3 in MCS 135
Talk: 3-4 in MCS 135
Dima Arinkin
(University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Rigid differential equations
March 26
Paul Norbury
(University of Melbourne)
Magnetic monopoles on manifolds with boundary
April 2
Craig Van Coevering
(MIT)
A construction of complete Ricci-flat Kahler manifolds
April 9
Speaker: TBA
Title: TBA
April 16
Muriel Livernet
(Université Paris 13 and MIT)
An overview of preLie structures
April 23
Yongbin Ruan
(University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)
Crepant resolution via the Givental formalism
April 30
Yuuji Tanaka
(MIT)
The Donaldson-Thomas instantons
on compact Kahler threefolds
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