Math 740: Seminar in Topology (formerly known as the Topology Working Seminar)

Location: KAP 245 (tentative)

Topics: Character varieties + Floer homology, string topology, quiver varieties, cluster algebras

Tentative schedule

Date/Time
Speaker
Topic
1/11 (Wed) 4:30pm
Yang Huang
Introduction to moment maps, symplectic quotients, and symplectic cuts
1/18 (Wed) 4:30pm
Yang Huang
Work of Manolescu-Woodward, Day I
1/25 (Wed) 4:30pm
Yang Huang
Work of Manolescu-Woodward, Day II
2/1 (Wed) 4:30pm
Yang Huang
Lagrangian correspondences
2/6 (Mon) 4:30pm

Canceled
2/15 (Wed) 4:30pm Russell Avdek String topology, Day I
2/22 (Wed) 4:30pm Russell Avdek
String topology, Day II
2/29 (Wed) 4:30pm Russell Avdek
Introduction to symplectic field theory, Day I
3/7 (Wed) 2pm Melissa Liu
Open Gromov-Witten invariants of toric Calabi-Yau 3-folds (Note special time)
3/14 (Wed) 4:30pm

No seminar this week (Spring Break)
3/21 (Wed) 4:30pm

No seminar this week
3/28 (Wed) 5pm

Canceled
4/2 (Mon) 3:30pm
Russell Avdek
Introduction to symplectic field theory, Day II
4/11 (Wed) 4:30pm
Russell Avdek
Work of Cieliebak-Latschev
4/18 (Wed) 4:30pm
Andrew Williams Cluster algebras, Day I
4/25 (Wed) 4:30pm
Andrew Williams Cluster algebras, Day II
5/2 (Wed) 3:30pm
Qingtao Chen
The elliptic genus



Last modified: April 19, 2012.