Geometry Seminar
Mondays at 3pm, MIT, Room 4-159
Contacts: D. Auroux, V. Guillemin, T. Mrowka, T. Colding, P. Seidel, K. Wehrheim
Fall 2006 schedule
Spring 2007 schedule
Note: the symplectic
geometry / mirror symmetry reading group meets on Mondays at 4:30pm
in the same room.
Fall 2007
- Monday September 10: Denis Auroux (MIT): Mirror symmetry in
the complement of an anticanonical divisor
- Monday September 17: John Baldwin (Columbia): Comultiplication
and the Ozsvath-Szabo contact invariant
(Monday September 24: no seminar - student holiday)
- Monday October 1: Yuuji Tanaka (MIT): The Donaldson-Thomas
instantons on Kähler threefolds
(Monday October 8: no seminar - Columbus Day)
- Monday October 15: Brett Kotschwar (MIT): Gradient estimates of
p-harmonic functions, 1/H flow, and an entropy formula
- Monday October 22: Shelly Harvey (Rice): Structure in the knot
concordance group
- Monday October 29: Marco Gualtieri (MIT): Bihermitian metrics
and Poisson modules
Monday October 29, at 4:30: David Gabai
(Princeton): Volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
- Monday November 5: David Nadler (Northwestern): Springer
theory for symplectic geometers
(Monday November 12: no seminar - Veterans' Day)
- Monday November 19: Lenny Ng (Duke): Symplectic Field Theory
for Legendrian knots
- Monday November 26: Larry Guth (Stanford): Symplectic
embeddings of polydisks
- Monday December 3: Ralph Cohen (Stanford): The Floer homotopy
type of cotangent bundles
- Monday December 10: Jacob Lurie (MIT): Topological field
theories in low dimensions
Spring 2008 schedule