Boston University Geometry and Physics Seminar
Fall 2016

Wed. 4:00 - 5:00 in Room MCS 148

Tea: 3:45 - 4:00 in Room MCS 144



September 14
(3:30-4:30pm)
Andrei Negut
(MIT)
The W(infinity) algebra and the moduli spaces of instantons
September 21
Dawei Chen
(Boston College)
Compactification of strata of abelian differentials
September 26
(Monday)
Room PSY B36
Tian-Jun Li
(University of Minnesota)
Classifying symplectic Log Calabi-Yau surfaces
October 5
Dhruv Ranganathan
(MIT)
Tropical curve counting in superabundant geometries
October 12
Jonathan Mboyo Esole
(Northeastern University)
Crepant resolutions of Weierstrass models and Hyperplane arrangements
October 19
(3:30-4:30pm)
Room B21
Davesh Maulik
(MIT)
Gopakumar-Vafa invariants via vanishing cycles
October 26
Arnav Tripathy
(Harvard University)
Motivic Donaldson-Thomas invariants of K3 times an elliptic curve
November 2
Ian Shipman
(Harvard University)
Ulrich bundles and ACM surfaces
November 9
No seminar this week
November 16
Qile Chen
(Boston College)
Spin and hyperelliptic structures on log twisted differentials
November 30
Bena Tshishiku
(Harvard University)
Obstructions to Nielsen realization
December 5
(Monday)
Room COM 111
Cheuk Yu Mak
(Institute for Advanced Study)
Spherical Functor and Dehn twist

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