Boston University Geometry Seminar Spring 2009 Wed 4:00 - 5:00 in Room MCS 149 Tea: 3:45 - 4:00 in Room MCS 153

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• Directions to the BU math department.
• A map showing the department building (Building 31).

February 11	Scott Carnahan (MIT) Generalized Moonshine: an overview
February 18	Dmitri Zvonkine (Jussieu) From Thom polynomials of singularities to representations of the symmetric group.
February 25	Pokman Cheung (MIT) Vertex algebras and the Witten Genus
March 4	Travis Schedler (MIT) Cyclic homology and the Gauss-Manin connection.
March 11	Spring Break No Seminar
March 18	Roman Fedorov (Boston University) Irregular Wakimoto modules and the DMT connection
March 25	Jonathan Weitsman (Northeastern) Fermionization, convergent perturbation theory, and correlations in quantum gauge theories
April 1	Matthew Headrick (Brandeis) New approaches to numerical Calabi-Yau metrics
April 8	Ben Webster (MIT) Representation theory and a strange duality for symplectic varieties .
April 15	Davesh Maulik (MIT) TBA
April 22	Alistair Savage (University of Ottawa) TBA
April 29	TBA

• Past seminars: 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 , Fall 2006 , Spring 2007 , Fall 2007 . Spring 2008 and Fall 2008 .
• 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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