Thursday, January 14, 2016

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Paul Bressler ,   Universidad de los Andes, Bogota

Title: Quasi-classical limit in deformation quantization
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 4:00pm

Daniil Rudenko,   HSE, Moscow

Title: Goncharov conjectures and functional equations for polylogarithms
Abstract and details available

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 1pm

Melody Chan,   Brown University

Title: Tropical geometry
Special Note: http://moduli2016.eventos.cimat.mx/sites/moduli2016/files/MelodyChan.pdf
Contact info here

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Melody Chan,   Brown University

Title: Topology of the tropical moduli spaces of curves
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:10pm

Claudia Scheimbauer,   MPIM-Bonn

Title: Derived symplectic geometry and AKSZ topological field theories
Abstract and details available

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Geometry/Physics Seminar       , 1:00pm

Renzo Cavalieri,   Colorado State University

Title: Pretalk
Contact info here

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Renzo Cavalieri,   Colorado State University

Title: Open Gromov-Witten Invariants of Toric Orbifolds and the CRC
Contact info here

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Alberto Cattaneo,   University of Zurich

Title:
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Thursday, May 5, 2016

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Gabriel Kerr,   Kansas State University

Title: Homological mirror symmetry for elementary birational cobordisms
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Nick Sheridan,   Princeton/IAS

Title: Homological mirror symmetry for Greene-Plesser mirrors
Abstract and details available

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Eric Zaslow,   Northwestern University

Title: The Chromatic Lagrangian of a Cubic Planar Graph
Abstract and details available

Thursday, June 2, 2016

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107 (or wherever is free), 12:00pm

Florian Naef,   University of Geneva

Title: Pre-talk
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Florian Naef,  

Title: The Goldman-Turaev Lie bialgebra and Kashiwara-Vergne
Abstract and details available

Thursday, June 9, 2016

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Justin Hilburn,  

Title: Pre-talk
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Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Justin Hilburn,   University of Oregon

Title: Symplectic Duality and Mirror Symmetry of 3d N=4 Theories
Abstract and details available

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 105, 1:00pm

Behrouz Taji,   University of Freiburg

Title: Pre-talk
Abstract and details available

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Behrouz Taji,   University of Freiburg

Title: Chern class inequalities for minimal models and uniformization
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 1:00pm

Ben Davison,   University of Glasgow and IST Austria

Title: Approximation by proper maps (pre-talk)
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Ben Davison,   University of Glasgow and IST Austria

Title: The integrality conjecture and the Kac positivity conjecture
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 13, 2016

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Rudy Rodsphon,   Vanderbilt University

Title: Quantizations and index theory
Abstract and details available

Friday, October 14, 2016

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 104, 4:00pm

David Nadler,   University of California, Berkeley

Title: Lagrangian skeleta of Weinstein manifolds
Special Note: Special day, time and place
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 1:00pm

Daniel Halpern-Leistner,   Columbia University

Title: Equivariant Hodge theory and noncommutative algebraic geometry (pre-talk)
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Daniel Halpern-Leistner,   Columbia University

Title: Representations of generalized braid groups on the derived category of a GIT quotient
Abstract and details available

Thursday, October 20, 2016

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 105, 1:00pm

Jian Xiao,   Northwestern

Title: Pretalk: Positivity and volume function
Abstract and details available

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Jian Xiao,   Northwestern

Title: Convexity and Zariski decomposition structure
Abstract and details available

Friday, October 21, 2016

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 102, 1:00pm

Jiuzu Hong,   University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Title: Pretalk: An introduction to conformal blocks, fusion ring and the Verlinde formula
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 103, 4:00pm

Jiuzu Hong,   University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Title: Conformal blocks, Verlinde formula and diagram automorphisms
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 3, 2016

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 1:00pm

Heather Lee,   Purdue University

Title: Pre-talk: Homological mirror symmetry for pairs of pants
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Heather Lee,   Purdue and IAS

Title: Homological mirror symmetry for punctured Riemann surfaces from pair-of-pants decompositions
Abstract and details available

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 3:00pm

Alexander Alexandrov,   CRM, Montreal and ITEP, Moscow

Title: Introduction to free fermions, integrable hierarchies and matrix models, I
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 105, 1:00pm

Alexander Alexandrov,   CRM, Montreal and ITEP, Moscow

Title: Introduction to free fermions, integrable hierarchies and matrix models, II
Abstract and details available

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Alexander Alexandrov,   CRM, Montreal and ITEP, Moscow

Title: Matrix model for open intersection numbers
Abstract and details available

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Geometry/Physics Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Xin Jin,   Northwestern University

Title: Sheaf quantizations and the J-homomorphism
Abstract and details available

Thursday, December 1, 2016

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 105, 1:00pm

Sam Payne,   Yale

Title: Tropical geometry of algebraic curves
Abstract and details available

Algebraic Geometry Seminar       Lunt 107, 4:00pm

Sam Payne,   Yale

Title: Top weight cohomology of moduli spaces of curves
Abstract and details available

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