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

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• 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 26	Bong Lian (Brandeis) Period Integrals and Recent Progress
Apr 2	Laura Schaposnik (UIUC) TBA
Apr 9	Yaim Cooper (Harvard) TBA
Apr 16	Aliakbar Daemi (Harvard) TBA
Apr 23	Ryosuke Takahashi (Harvard) TBA
Apr 30	Chris Kottke (Northeastern) TBA

• 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 , Fall 2010 , Spring 2011 , Fall 2011 , Spring 2012 , Fall 2012 , Spring 2013 , 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.

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