Boston University Geometry and Physics Seminar
Spring 2014
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 22
Santosh Kandel
(Notre Dame)
Construction of a Functorial QFT in the Riemannian setting
Jan 29
Brendan McLellan
(Northeastern)
Abelian Analytic Torsion and Symplectic Volume
Feb 5
Michael McBreen
(MIT)
Mirror Symmetry for Hypertoric Varieties
Feb 12
Maxim Braverman
(Northeastern)
The Berry phase and the phase of the determinant
Feb 24
Yoshi Maeda
(Keio)
Wodzicki Chern-Simons class for loop spaces
Feb 26
Hossein Movasati
(IMPA)
A common framework for automorphic forms and topological string partition functions
Mar 5
Ruth Charney
(Brandeis)
Boundaries of spaces of non-positive curvature
Mar 12
Spring Recess
TBA
Mar 19 (note date change!)
Bong Lian
(Brandeis)
Period Integrals and Recent Progress
Apr 2
Laura Schaposnik
(UIUC)
Real slices of the moduli space of Higgs bundles
Apr 9
Yaim Cooper
(Harvard)
Moduli spaces of stable quotients in genus 0 and 1
Apr 16
Aliakbar Daemi
(Harvard)
Symmetric spaces and knot invariants from gauge theory
Apr 23
Ryosuke Takahashi
(Harvard)
TBA
Apr 30
Chris Kottke
(Northeastern)
Transgression to loop space and fusion
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
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Fall 2012
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Spring 2013
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Fall 2013
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
