Geometry Seminar
Mondays at 3pm, MIT, Room 2-255
Contacts: D. Auroux, V. Guillemin, T. Mrowka, T. Colding, K. Wehrheim
Fall 2006
- September 11: L. Guth (Stanford): Volumes of unit balls and
large-scale geometry of Riemannian manifolds
- September 18: A. Vasy (Stanford): The wave equation on
asymptotically de Sitter-like spaces
- September 25: M. Furuta (U. of Tokyo): Pontrjagin-Thom
construction in non-linear Fredholm theories
- October 2: G. Tinaglia (Notre Dame): Structure theorems for
disks embedded in R^3
- October 16:
3pm: Y. Ostrover (MIT):
Symplectic capacities and Volume Radius
4pm: M. Reiris (MIT):
On the long time evolution of Einstein equations and the
geometrization conjecture on three-manifolds
- October 23: F. Ziltener (Munich): Symplectic vortices on the
complex plane and quantum cohomology
- October 30: P. Ozsváth (Columbia): On knot Floer homology
- November 6: E. Grigsby (Columbia): Combinatorial description
of the knot Floer homology of cyclic branched covers of a knot
- November 13: C. Taubes (Harvard): The Seiberg-Witten
equations and a proof of the 3-d Weinstein conjecture
- November 20: M. Sullivan (U. Mass.): Contact geometry and
string topology
- November 27: J. Lott (Michigan): Poincare and Sobolev
inequalities on metric-measure spaces with positive Ricci curvature
- December 4: B. Kleiner (Yale): BiLipschitz embedding in Banach spaces
- December 11: N. Hingston (The College of New Jersey): Periodic
solutions of Hamilton's equations on tori