Boston University Geometry Seminar
Fall 2011

Wed. 4:00 - 5:00 in Room MCS B21

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



Sep. 21
Aaron Naber
(MIT)
Quantitative stratification and regularity for Einstein manifolds, minimal surfaces, and harmonic maps.
Sep. 28
Thomas Willwacher
(Harvard)
Chern characters and polyvector fields.
Oct. 5
Luke Cherveny
(Brandeis)
Gromow-Witten theory with descedants in genus zero via the mirror principle

Oct. 12
Marco Aldi
(Brandeis)
Nil-manifolds, loop spaces, and OPE's.

Oct. 19
Chris Beasley
(Northeastern)
Supersymmetric Chern-Simons theory on a contact manifold.

Oct. 26
Ho Man Ho
(BU)
Differential index theory

Nov. 2
TBA

Nov. 9
Dan Edidin
(Univ. of Missouri)
Equivariant birational maps and partial resolutions of categorical quotients.

Nov. 16
Pavel Etingof
(MIT)
Poisson traces on symmetric powers of symplectic varieties.

Nov. 18 (Note special date and time:
3-4 pm in MCS B21, Tea 2:45-3 in MCS 137).
Owen Gwilliam
(Northwestern)
Factorization algebras and the beta-gamma system.

Nov. 23
Thanksgiving - No Seminar

Nov. 30
TBA

Dec. 9 (Note special date and time)
Si Li
(Northwestern)

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