Thursday, January 6, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

David Treumann,   Northwestern

Title: Smith theory and Geometric Hecke algebras
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 1:00pm

Kate Poirier,   Berkeley

Title: String diagrams, moduli spaces and string topology
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Kate Poirier,   Berkeley

Title: String topology & compactified moduli space of Riemann surfaces
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 2:00pm

David Hyeon,   Postech

Title: Pretalk: Construction of moduli spaces of curves
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

David Hyeon,   Postech

Title: Log MMP for the moduli space of stable curves
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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 1:00pm

Rina Anno,   Chicago

Title: Spherical functors
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Rina Anno,   Chicago

Title: Spherical twists as derived flops
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Chenyang Xu,   MIT

Title: Boundedness of algebraic varieties
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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 1:00pm

Valentino Tosatti,   Columbia

Title: Calabi-Yau manifolds
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Valentino Tosatti,   Columbia

Title: How do Calabi-Yau manifolds degenerate?
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Thursday, February 3, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Josh Guffin,   UPenn

Title: Quantum Sheaf Cohomology (cancelled)
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Friday, February 4, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 3pm

Alina Marian,   UIC

Title: The moduli space of stable quotients
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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 1:00pm

Andrei Caldararu,   Wisconsin

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

Andrei Caldararu,   Wisconsin

Title: A study of derived self-intersections
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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 1:00pm

AJ Tolland,   SUNY Stonybrook

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

AJ Tolland,   SUNY Stonybrook

Title: Cohomological Field Theories on the Lattice
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 1:00pm

Gabor Szekelyhidi,   Columbia

Title: Extremal Kahler metrics
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Gabor Szekelyhidi,   Columbia

Title: On blowing up extremal Kahler manifolds
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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 1:00pm

Matthew Ando,   UIUC

Title: Complex analytic equivariant elliptic cohomology
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Matthew Ando,   UIUC

Title: The Equivariant elliptic cohomology and fibered WZW models
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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Yan Soibelman,   Kansas State

Title: Complex integrable systems,Mirror Symmetry and Donaldson-Thomas invariants
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 4:00pm

Thomas Willwacher,   Harvard

Title: Cancelled
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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 1:00pm

Kiumars Kaveh,   Pittsburgh

Title: Pretalk: Volume of convex polytopes and number of solutions of a system of algebraic equations
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Kiumars Kaveh,   Pittsburgh

Title: Convex bodies, algebraic varieties and group actions
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Thursday, April 7, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Tom Nevins,   UIUC

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

Tom Nevins,   UIUC

Title: Moduli spaces of points on some quantum varieties
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 4:00pm

Ezra Getzler,   Northwestern

Title: Differential graded Banach algebras and Lie infinity-groupoids (joint work with Kai Behrend)
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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Nicolo Sibilla,   NU

Title: Ribbon Graphs and Mirror Symmetry.
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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Josh Guffin,   UPenn

Title: Quantum Sheaf Cohomology
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Friday, April 22, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 2:00pm

Professor Michael Douglas,   Simons Center for Geomery and Physics

Title: A holographic dual of free quantum field theory
Special Note: Note the unusual time and date
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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 2:00pm

Ryan Grady,   Notre Dame

Title: Categorical traces and field theories
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Stephan Stolz,   Notre Dame

Title: Field theories and cohomology
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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 1:00pm

David Speyer,   Michigan

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

David Speyer,   Michigan

Title: Projected Richardson Varieties
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Thursday, May 12, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Thomas Bitoun ,   MIT

Title: D-modules mod p and microlocalization
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Richard Wentworth,   University of Maryland

Title: Gluing formulas for determinants of Dolbeault laplacians on Riemann surfaces
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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 1:00pm

John Baldwin,   Princeton

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

John Baldwin,   Princeton

Title: A combinatorial spanning tree model for knot Floer homology.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Robert Lipshitz,   Columbia

Title: Bordered Heegaard Floer homology: why? (and what?)
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Nick Sheridan,   MIT

Title: Introducing Homological Mirror Symmetry
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Nick Sheridan,   MIT

Title: Homological Mirror Symmetry for a Calabi-Yau hypersurface in projective space
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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Daniele Rosso,   Chicago

Title: Classic and mirabolic RSK correspondence for partial flags
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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Cheol-Hyun Cho,   Northwestern

Title: Obstructions and Deformations in Lagrangian Floer theory
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Cheol-Hyun Cho,   Northwestern

Title: Holomorphic orbidiscs and Lagrangian Floer theory for toric orbifolds.
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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Thomas Willwacher,   Harvard

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

Thomas Willwacher,   Harvard

Title: Towards a unification of deformation quantization
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Friday, October 21, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 4:00pm

Lev Rozansky,   UNC

Title: Extension of Khovanov's homology to links in S2 x S1
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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Sheel Ganatra,   MIT

Title: Some remarks on Hochschild cohomology and Fukaya categories
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Sheel Ganatra,   MIT

Title: On the Hochschild (co)homology of the Fukaya category
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Thursday, November 3, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Anatoly Preygel,   MIT

Title: Some constructions for dg-categories and "non-commutative" algebraic geometry.
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Anatoly Preygel,   MIT

Title: Thom-Sebastiani & duality for matrix factorizations (via DAG)
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Friday, November 4, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 4:00pm

Dan Freed,   UT Austin

Title: Invertibility, modularity, and topological field theory
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

David Ayala,   Harvard

Title: Configuration Spaces and Homology
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

David Ayala,   Harvard

Title: Weak n-categories as sheaves
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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Izzet Coskun,   UIC

Title: The birational geometry of the Hilbert Scheme of Points on surfaces
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Izzet Coskun,   UIC

Title: The birational geometry of the Hilbert scheme of points on P^2 and Bridgeland stability conditions
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Friday, November 18, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 4:00pm

Marco Gualtieri,   University of Toronto

Title: Deformations of Generalized Kähler Manifolds
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Friday, December 2, 2011

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 3:00pm

Lev Buhovski,   University of Chicago

Title: Robust Measurements in Symplectic Topology
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:15pm

Alexander Braverman,   Brown

Title: Instantons, affine Lie algebras and AGT conjecture.
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