Geometry and Topology seminar

Wednesdays 2:30-3:45 (and some Mondays 2:30-3:45)
1535 LGRT or TBA

The goal of this seminar is to allow Pioneer Valley geometers and topologists and outsiders ample time to discuss their current research and/or interests. The talks will contain background information for the non-experts, but also possibly some technical details. Audience interaction is strongly encouraged. It will not be unusual for the speaker to talk for several sessions.

 

Fall 2009
← Spring 2009
DateSpeakerTitle
September 9 No talk scheduled
September 16
Weimin Chen/Organization Meeting
University of Massachusetts
September 23 No talk scheduled
September 30
Paul Hacking
University of Massachusetts
Symplectic aspects of mirror symmetry
October 7
October 14
Ismar Volic
Wellesley
Finite type invariants of knots and links and manifold calculus of functors
October 21 No talk scheduled
October 28
Jonathan Hillman
University of Sydney
Embedding 3-manifolds in 4-space
November 4
Olga Plamenevskaya
SUNY Stony Brook
Monodromy factorizations and filling of contact structures
November 11 Veterans Day
November 18 No talk scheduled
November 25
December 2
Hee Jung Kim
Max Planck-Bonn
Double Point Surgery and Configurations of Surfaces in 4-manifolds
December 9
David Shea Vela-Vick
Columbia University

Old seminars (old format): Spring 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005