Pure Math Seminars

Geometry and Topology Seminar: List of Speakers

Organizers Benoit Charbonneau Spiro Karigiannis David McKinnon Ruxandra Moraru Doug Park

The seminar is generally held Wednesdays from 3:30 to 4:20 in MC5045. Note the new room for 2012!

This page was last updated July 13, 2011.

Date	Speaker	Title
MONDAY, May 9 4:00-5:00	Anar Akhmedov University of Minnesota	The geography of symplectic 4-manifolds
THURSDAY, June 16 3:30-4:30 MC 5158	Shing-Tung Yau Harvard University	Non-Kaehler Calabi-Yau manifolds
September 14	Jason Lotay University College London	Stability of Coassociative Conical Singularities
September 21	Kevin Purbhoo University of Waterloo	Maximally inflected curves and orbits of promotion
September 28	Julien Keller Université de Provence	Chow stability and the projectivisation of stable bundles
October 5	Steven Rayan University of Toronto	Twisted Higgs bundles, holomorphic chains, and quivers
October 12	Aaron Smith University of Waterloo	A Higher Riemann-Hilbert Correspondence
October 19	CANCELLED	.
October 26	Seyed Mehdi Mousavi University of Western Ontario	Analogies between symplectomorphism groups and compact Lie groups
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November 9	Sobhan Seyfaddini University of California, Berkeley	C0 limits of Hamiltonian paths and spectral invariants
November 16	Eric Katz University of Waterloo	Log concavity of characteristic polynomials and toric intersection theory
November 23	Xenia de la Ossa Oxford University	Geometry and Connectedness of Heterotic String Compactifications with Fluxes
November 30	Sergey Cherkis Trinity College Dublin	Gravitational Instantons and Tropical Geometry of Monopoles
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January 25	Ian Hambleton McMaster University	Gauge theory and smooth group actions on 4-manifolds
TUESDAY, January 31 3:30-4:30, in MC 4062	Jonathan Block University of Pennsylvania	A differential geometer's version of derived categories
February 1	Jordan Watts University of Toronto	Differential Forms on Symplectic Quotients
February 8	Ronan Conlon McMaster University	A theorem of existence for Asymptotically Conical Calabi-Yau manifolds
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March 7	Derek Harland University of Loughborough	Instantons and Killing spinors
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MONDAY, March 19	Andrew Dancer Oxford University	TBA
March 21	Cheol-Hyun Cho Seoul National University	.
March 28	Charles Doran University of Alberta	TBA