Boston University
Geometry Seminar Schedule
Spring 1999

Directions to the Boston University Department of Mathematics.

A map showing the location of the math department (building 24).

Wed Jan 27, 1999, 4-5pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 3:30pm, MCS 153.
Satyan Devadoss (Johns Hopkins)
"The tesselations of real
moduli spaces"
Wed Feb 17, 1999, 4-5pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 3:30pm, MCS 153.
Change of date:
Mark de Cataldo
has been moved to Mar 17.
Wed Feb 24, 1999, 4-5pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 3:30pm, MCS 153.
Tom Hawkins (Boston University)
"From relativity to representations:
How physics inspired Weyl's
greatest mathematics"
Wed Mar 17, 1999, 4-5pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 3:30pm, MCS 153.
Mark de Cataldo (Harvard)
"The decomposition theorem:
Hilbert schemes and
Heisenberg algebras"
Wed Mar 24, 1999, 4-5pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 3:30pm, MCS 153.
Tom Graber (Harvard)
"Enumerative geometry of
hyperelliptic curves"
Wed Mar 31, 1999, 4-5pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 3:30pm, MCS 153.
Casim Abbas (Courant)
"Pseudoholomorphic curves in
symplectisations and some global
problems in contact geometry"
Wed Apr 14, 1999, 4-5pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 3:30pm, MCS 153.
Change of date:
Jonathan Weitsman's talk has
been moved to Apr 28.
Wed Apr 21, 1999, 4-5pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 3:30pm, MCS 153.
Mark Adler (Brandeis)
"Random matrices and
integrable systems"
Wed Apr 28, 1999, 4-5pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 3:30pm, MCS 153.
Jonathan Weitsman
(MIT and Santa Cruz)
"On a formula of Goresky,
Kottwitz, and MacPherson, the cohomology
of quotients, and other things "
Special Time and Room
Thurs Apr 29, 1999, 3-4pm
Math/Computer Science, Room B46
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 2:30pm, Room MCS 153
Meeyoung Kim
(Michigan State)
"On branched coverings of
some homogeneous spaces "
Wed May 5, 1999, 4-5pm
Math/Computer Science, Room 149
111 Cummington Street, Boston
Tea at 3:30pm, MCS 153.
Adrian Vajiac (Boston Univ.)
"Localization techniques in
topological quantum field theories"

Click The Gazette Page for a list of all math talks in Boston area.

A list of past speakers from Fall 1997, Spring 1998, and Fall 1998.

For further information, please contact Takashi Kimura by e-mail at kimura@math.bu.edu,
or by phone at (617) 353-1486. 

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