Boston University Geometry Seminar Spring 2012 Wed. 3:00 - 4:00 in Room MCS B21 Tea: 2:45 - 3:00 in Room MCS 144

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• Directions to the BU math department.
• A map showing the department building (Building 31).

Special Date January 17	Jonathan Wise Stanford University Comparing virtual curve counts
January 18	Qingtao Chen University of Southern California New structures in quantum invariants of knots and links
Special Date January 19	Si Li Northwestern University Quantum geometry on Calabi-Yau manifolds
January 26	Ryan Grady University of Notre Dame On quantum geometry and quantum field theory
Special Date January 27	Yunfeng Jiang Imperial College Birational transformations of Gromov-Witten and Donaldson-Thomas Invariants
Special Date January 30	Sean Fitzpatrick University of California at Berkeley Questions (and a few answers) about contact quantization
February 15	Vasily Dolgushev Temple University Multiple Avatars of the Operad GER
February 22	Dawei Chen Boston College Flat surfaces, moduli spaces and Teichmueller curves
February 29	Hao Xu Harvard University Formal pseudo-differential operators and Witten's r-spin numbers
March 7	Takashi Kimura Boston University Vector bundles and orbifold K-theory
March 14	Spring Break No Seminar
March 21	Steve Rosenberg Boston University Characteristic Classes for Some Infinite Dimensional Lie Groups
March 28	No Seminar
April 4	Brad Safnuk Central Michigan University Mirror symmetry for Catalan numbers through the Laplace transform
April 11	Daniel Hernandez Serrano Salamanca Gromov-Witten invariants of a orbifold point and topological recursion
April 18	Renzo Cavalieri Colorado State University at Fort Collins Polynomiality and Wall Crossings in Hurwitz Theory
April 25	No Seminar
May 2	Mark McLean MIT On the symplectic invariance of log kodaira dimension

• 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
• See The Mathematical Gazette for a list of all math talks in Boston area.
• For further information, contact
  • Takashi Kimura at kimura(at)math(dot)bu(dot)edu

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