Boston University Geometry Seminar Spring 2010 Mon 3:00 - 4:00 in Room MCS 135 Tea: 2:45 - 3:00 in Room MCS 153

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

February 22	Eduardo Gonzalez (UMass Boston) Area dependence for gauged Gromov-Witten invariants
March 1	Travis Schedler (MIT) Poisson traces and D-modules
March 8	Spring Break
March 15	Paul Seidel (MIT) TBA
March 22	Chris Brav (Univ. of Toronto) Braid groups and Kleinian singularities
March 29	Paul Kirk (Indiana University) Whitehead doubles of the (2, 2^k-1) torus knots are linearly independent in the concordance group.
April 5	Takashi Kimura (Boston University) On representations of finite groups.
April 12	Oleksandr Tsymbaliuk (MIT) . Laumon spaces and their role in representation theory
April 22 (Special Date)	Boris Khesin (University of Toronto) A nonholonomic Moser theorem and diffeomorphism groups.
April 26	Dan Edidin ( Univ. of Missiouri ) Logarithmic trace and orbifold products
May 24 (Special time/location - 5-6 pm in MCS 149)	Mathai Varghese ( Univ. of Adelaide ) Analytic torsion for Z_2 graded complexes.

• 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 , Fall 2008 , Spring 2009 , and Fall 2009
• 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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