Boston University Geometry Seminar Spring 2011 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).

Feb. 9	David Jordan (MIT) Quantization of multiplicative quiver varieties
Feb. 16	Mohammed Abouzaid (MIT) On the Fukaya category of cotangent bundles.
Feb. 23	Andres Larrain-Hubach (BU) Characteristic classes and pseudodifferential operators of degree zero.
March 2	Alexei Borodin (MIT) Growth of random surfaces.
March 25, 3-4 pm. Note: Special date/time.	John Lott (Berkeley) An index theorem in differential K-theory.
March 30	James McKernan (MIT) Automorphisms of varieties.
April 6	Carl Mautner (MIT) Highest weight categories, tilting objects, and parity sheaves.
April 27	Dana Fine (UMass Lowell) Rigorous Path Integral for Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics and the Gauss-Bonnet-Chern Theorem

• 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 , Fall 2009 , Spring 2009 , and Fall 2010
• 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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