Boston University Geometry and Physics Seminar Spring 2016 Wed. 4:00 - 5:00 in Room MCS B19 Tea: 3:45 - 4:00 in Room MCS 144

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• A map showing the department building (Building 31).

Jan 27	Fabian Haiden (Harvard University) Flat surfaces and stability in triangulated categories
Feb 3	Matthew Mahowald (Northwestern University) Open Gromov-Witten Theory and Knots
Feb 10	No seminar
Feb 17	Yu-Shen Lin (Stanford University) On the Corresponding Theorem between Tropical and Holomorphic Discs
Feb 18 (Thursday) 4-5pm	Li-Sheng Tseng (University of California Irvine) Symplectic Invariants and Differential Forms Room: B08
Feb 24	Nathaniel Bade (Northeastern University) Factorization in super Chern-Simons matter theories on $S^3$
Mar 2	Brian Williams (Northwestern University) Chiral differential operators from curved beta-gamma
Mar 16	Tomoyuki Arakawa (RIMS, Kyoto University) Deligne exceptional series, Feigin-Frenkel conjecture, and W-algebras
Mar 23	Sarah Harrison (Stanford University) Moonshine modules and extremal CFTs
Mar 30	Eduardo Gonzalez (University of Massachusetts Boston) Quantum Kirwan for Quantum K-theory
Apr 6	Dan Xie (Harvard University) A2 Hitchin system, quivers and Donaldson-Thomas invariant
Apr 13	Netanel Samual Blaier (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) The quantum Johnson homomorphism, formality and symplectic isotopy
Apr 20	Yefeng Shen (Stanford University)  LG/CY correspondence via modularity Room: PSY B49
Apr 25 (Monday) 4-5pm	Oren Ben-Bassat  (Univ. of Haifa / Oxford) Banach Algebraic Geometry Room: MCS 148
Apr 27	Vasily Dolgushev (Temple University) Kontsevich's formality quasi-isomorphism is "demystified"

• 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 , Spring 2014 , Fall 2014 , Spring 2015 , Fall 2015
• If you have any question regarding the seminar, please contact Siu Cheong Lau lau(at)math(dot)bu(dot)edu.

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