Boston University Geometry and Physics Seminar
Spring 2013
Wed. 4:00 - 5:00 in Room MCS 148
Tea: 3:45 - 4:00 in Room MCS 144
Directions
to the
BU math department
.
A map showing the
department building
(Building 31).
Jan 23 (special location at PSY B49)
Daniel Jafferis
(Harvard)
F-Maximization and counting degrees of freedom in 3D
Jan 25 (Special day)
Oren Ben-Bassat
(Oxford)
Subvarieties and Descent
Jan 28 (special day)
Tomoo Matsumura
(KAIST)
Schubert Calculus of Weighted Grassmannians
Feb 8 (Special Day)
Owen Gwilliam
(Berkeley)
TBA
Feb 13
Liang Kong
(New Hampshire)
To see a world in a grain of "sand" in conformal field theories
Feb 20
Adrien Brochier
(Edinburgh)
A Kohno-Drinfeld theorem for KZ connections
Feb 27
Dan Berwick-Evans
(Berkeley)
SUSY sigma models, elliptic cohomology, and the Witten genus
Mar 6
TBA
Mar 13
Spring Recess
TBA
Mar 20
Chris Kottke
(Brown)
String manifolds and spin structures on loop spaces
Mar 27
TBA
Apr 2 (special day)
Siu-Cheong Lau
(Harvard)
Open mirror theorem and crepant resolutions
Apr 10 (Cancelled and moved to Apr 30)
Chris Beasley
(Northeastern)
Abelian Duality at Level k
Apr 17
Tim Nguyen
(Simons Center)
TBA
Apr 24
Renato Bettiol
(Notre Dame)
TBA
Apr 30 (Special day)
Chris Beasley
(Northeastern)
Abelian Duality at Level k
Past seminars:
Fall 1997
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Spring 1998
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Fall 1998
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Spring 1999
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Fall 1999
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Spring 2000
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Fall 2000
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Spring 2001
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Fall 2001
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Spring 2002
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Fall 2003
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Spring 2004
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Fall 2004
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Spring 2005
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Fall 2005
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Spring 2006
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Fall 2006
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Spring 2007
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Fall 2007
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Spring 2008
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Fall 2008
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Spring 2009
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Fall 2009
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Spring 2009
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Fall 2010
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Spring 2011
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Fall 2011
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Spring 2012
,
Fall 2012
See
The Mathematical Gazette
for a list of all math talks in Boston area.
For further information, contact
Si Li
at sili(at)math(dot)bu(dot)edu
Ryan Grady
regrady(at)math(dot)bu(dot)edu.
Visitors since January 23, 2001
