BU Mathematical Physics Seminar 

Fall 2002

Tuesday 4:30 - 5:30 at Boston University 

The seminar is often followed by a dinner with the speaker (please ask at the end of the seminar for details)




October 1
Marcos Marino (Harvard)
 Chern-Simons Perturbation  theory and matrix models
Boston University; Physics Research Building; Room 595
4:30 PM
October 8 
No Seminar
October 15
No Seminar
October 22
John Imbrie (Virginia)
Branched Polymers and Dimensional Reduction
Harvard University; Jefferson Laboratory Room 453
4:15 PM
November 1
Dror Bar-Natan (Toronto)
Khovanov's Categorification of the Jones Polynomial
Boston University; 111 Cummington Street, Room 149
4:00 PM
November 12
Patrick Brosnan (UCLA)
Matroids, motives and Feynman amplitudes as period integrals
Boston University; Physics Research Building 595
4:30 PM
November 19
Alexander Polishchuk (BU)
 Holomorphic bundles on noncommutative 2-tori
Boston University; Physics Research Building 595
4:30 PM
November 19
TBA
November 26
TBA
December 3
TBA
December 10
TBA
December 17
TBA