Friday, January 6, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 2:00pm

Professor Ezra Getzler,   Northwestern University

Title: Batalin-Vilkovisky algebras and Frobenius manifolds in higher genus
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Thursday, January 12, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Joseph Johns,   Univesity of Chicago

Title: The directed Fukaya category and Morse theory
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 3:00pm

Teruji Thomas,   University of Chicago

Title: The Maslov class as a quadratic space
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Friday, January 20, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Hsian-Hua Tseng,   University of British Columbia & MSRI

Title: Global quotient structure of moduli of orbifold stable maps
Special Note: The speaker will arrive on January 18 (early morning) and leave on January 28 (afternoon).
Abstract and details available

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Hsian-Hua Tseng,   University of British Columbia & MSRI

Title: Orbifold Quantum Riemann-Roch
Special Note: The speaker will arrive on January 18 (early morning) and leave on January 28 (afternoon).
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Monday, January 30, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 3:00pm

Oren Ben Bassat,  

Title: Noncommutative tori and the Fourier-Mukai transform
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Thursday, February 2, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Michael Gekhtman,   University of Notre Dame

Title: Cluster Algebras, Poisson Geometry and Integrable Systems
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Friday, February 3, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 2:00pm

Professor Young-Heon Kim,   The Fields Institute, University of Toronto

Title: The determinant of the Laplacian and the quasifuchsian space
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Thursday, February 9, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Vasiliy Dolgushev,   Northwestern University

Title: Relative formality theorem and quantization of coisotropic submanifolds
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Friday, February 10, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 3:00pm

Sergiy Koshkin,   Kansas State University

Title: Conormal bundles to knots and Large N duality
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Thursday, February 16, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Alexandra Pettet,   University of Chicago

Title: Finiteness properties of subgroups of automorphism groups of free groups
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Thursday, February 23, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Paul Seidel,   University of Chicago

Title: Khovanov meets Ozsvath-Szabo
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Thursday, March 2, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Mohammed Abouzaid,   University of Chicago

Title: On Homological Mirror Symmetry and Tropical Geometry
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Thursday, March 9, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Mihnea Popa,   University of Chicago

Title: GV sheaves, Fourier-Mukai, and generic vanishing theorems
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Professor Juan Souto,   University of Chicago

Title: Geometry of Heegaard splittings and rank of the fundamental group
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Thursday, March 30, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Professor Ian Agol,   University of Illinois at Chicago

Title: Finiteness of arithmetic reflection groups
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 4.15pm

Professor Alexey Bondal,   Steklov Institute, Moscow

Title: Derived categories of toric varieties
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Thursday, April 6, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Davesh Maulik,   Princeton University

Title: Quantum cohomology of the Hilbert scheme of points of A_n resolutions
Special Note: The speaker will arrive on April 3 (evening) and depart on April 7 (morning).
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Marco Gualtieri ,   Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: D-branes in generalized complex manifolds
Special Note: The speaker will arrive on April 13 (morning) and depart on April 14 (night).
Abstract and details available

Friday, April 14, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 3:00pm

Professor Fedor Malikov,   University of South California

Title: From Lagrangians to sheaves of vertex algebras
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Thursday, April 20, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Renzo Cavalieri,   University of Michigan

Title: Hurwitz numbers and Admissible Covers
Special Note: The speaker will arrive on April 19 (night) and depart on April 21 (evening).
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Friday, April 21, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 3:00pm

Professor Andrei Caldararu,   University of Wisconsin at Madison

Title: A generalized Hochschild-Kostant-Rosenberg isomorphism
Special Note: The speaker will arrive between 11-11:30am on April 21 and depart on the same day.
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Martin Markl,   Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Title: Natural differential operators and graph complexes
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Thursday, May 4, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor David Nadler,   Northwestern University

Title: Constructible Sheaves and the Fukaya Category
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Thursday, May 11, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 3:00pm

Professor Christopher Woodward,   Rutgers University

Title: Functoriality for Lagrangian correspondences in Floer theory and TQFT
Special Note: The speaker will arrive on May 10 (night) and depart on May 12 (morning).
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Professor Lev Rozansky,   University of North Carolina

Title: Soergel bimodules and the categorification of the 2-variable HOMFLY-PT polynomial
Abstract and details available

Friday, May 19, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Professor Vasiliy Dolgushev,   Northwestern Unversity

Title: Formality of the homotopy Gerstenhaber algebra of Hochschild cochains of a regular algebra
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Thursday, May 25, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Jiun-Cheng Chen,   Northwestern University

Title: On Mukai conjecture for singular varieties
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Thursday, September 21, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Vasily Dolgushev,  

Title: Modular symmetry of Poisson manifolds and the Van den Bergh duality
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Thursday, September 28, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Gabriel Kerr, University of Chicago,  

Title: Weighted Blowups and Homological Mirror Symmetry of Toric Surfaces
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Thursday, October 5, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4pm

Professor Sergiy Koshkin,  

Title: Large N Duality between 3-manifolds and Calabi-Yau 3-folds
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Thursday, October 12, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Albrecht Klemm, University of Wisconsin,  

Title: Modular forms and topological strings on compact Calabi-Yau manifolds
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 101, 3:00pm

Professor David Treumann,  

Title: Constructible stacks
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Friday, October 20, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Professor Alexandre Karabegov,   Abilene Christian University

Title: A formal model of the Berezin-Toeplitz quantization
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Thursday, October 26, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Dima Tamarkin,  

Title: A category of microlocal sheaves on a symplectic manifold
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Thursday, November 2, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 2:30pm

Professor Ludmil Katzarkov,  

Title: TBA
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Vasily Pestun,   Princeton University

Title: Topological strings in generalized CY manifolds
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Thursday, November 9, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Professor Yan Soibelman,  

Title: Geometry and algebra of Calabi-Yau varieties
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Thursday, November 30, 2006

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Dmitriy Boyarchenko,   University of Chicago

Title: Characters of unipotent groups over finite fields (Joint work with Vladimir Drinfeld)
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