Geometry Seminar
Mondays, and some Wednesdays, at 3pm, MIT, Room 2-143
Contacts: D. Auroux, V. Guillemin, T. Mrowka, T. Colding, P. Seidel, K. Wehrheim
Fall 2006 schedule
Spring 2007 schedule
Fall 2007 schedule
Note: the symplectic geometry / mirror symmetry reading group meets on
Mondays at 4:30pm in the same room.
Spring 2008
- Monday February 11: M. Reiris (MIT): The Einstein flow and the
Yamabe invariant of three-manifolds
- Wednesday February 13: Y. Ruan (Michigan): Uniruledness in
symplectic birational geometry
(Monday February 18: no seminar - Presidents Day)
- Monday February 25: Y. Lekili (MIT): Wrinkled fibrations on
near-symplectic manifolds
- Monday March 3: J. Bernstein (MIT): Helicoid-like minimal
disks and uniqueness
- Monday March 10: E. Miranda (Univ. Autonoma Barcelona):
Geometric Quantization of integrable systems with singularities
- Monday March 17: no seminar
- Wednesday March 19: N. C. Leung (City Univ.
Hong Kong): Geometry of special holonomy
(Monday March 24: no seminar - Spring break)
- Monday March 31: P. Johnson (U. Michigan):
Gromov-Witten invariants of orbifold curves and integrable hierarchies
- Wednesday April 2: A. Stipsicz (Renyi Institute / Columbia):
4-dimensional symplectic surgeries and surface singularities
- Monday April 7: J. Wehrheim (Univ. München): Vortex
invariants and toric manifolds
- Wednesday April 9: D. McDuff
(Columbia / Stony Brook): Some new 6-dimensional Hamiltonian S^1
manifolds (joint with
Group Actions seminar)
- Monday April 14: Y. Ostrover (MIT): Some algebraic properties of
the quantum homology
(Monday April 21: no seminar - Patriots Day)
- Wednesday April 23 in 4-149: J. Simons (Renaissance
Technologies): Structured bundles and K differential cohomology
- Monday April 28: Y. Ruan (Michigan): Gromov-Witten theory of
quintic 3-folds via quantum singularity theory
- Monday May 5: no seminar (Simons lectures)
- Monday May 12: no seminar (Clay Research Conference)
- Thursday May 15, 3pm
in 5-234: P. Ozsvath (Columbia): TBA
- Monday-Friday, May 26-30:
Workshop on Mirror Symmetry and Symplectic Geometry