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)
Euclidean Schwarzschild Metric and the Ancient Solutions of Ricci Flow in Dimension 4
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.
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