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Seminars for the week of April 20, 2009
Colloquium
Thursday, 3:20, in VinH 16Professor Davesh Maulik
of MIT
will speak on
"Noether-Lefschetz theory and Gromov-Witten theory"
In this lecture, we discuss two theories concerning families of K3 surfaces (a special class of algebraic surface with trivial canonical bundle). Noether-Lefschetz theory arises from classical geometric questions about holomorphic line bundles on these surfaces and how they vary in families. Gromov-Wittentheory, on the other hand, involves counting pseudo-holomorphic curves on a symplectic manifold and is closely related to ideas from mirror symmetry and hypergeometric series. In these talks, I will introduce these circles of ideas and explain the quantitative relationship between them along with applications to each side (as time permits).
Monday, 20 Apr 2009
- Professor Donald Kahn will speak on "Simplicial objects in the category of manifolds"
- Lei Zhang will speak on "Gelfand pairs, II"
- Professor Nitsan Ben-Gal from Brown U/FU Berlin will speak on "Asymptotics of grow-up solutions and global attractors of non- dissipative PDEs"
- Professor Vera Mikyoung Hur from MIT will speak on "Dispersive properties of surface water waves"
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Topology Seminar:
at 2:30 in VinH 570
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Working Seminar on the local Arthur Conjecture:
at 3:30 in VinH 113
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Dynamical Systems Seminar, Joint with PDE:
at 3:35 in VinH 570
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Joint with Fabes/PDE Seminar:
at 4:40 in VinH 570
Tuesday, 21 Apr 2009
- Esther Widiasih will speak on "How the ice line moves: revisiting Budyko's energy balance model"
- William Hancock from Penn State University will speak on "Coordination of the two motor domains in the motor protein kinesin- 2"
- ... Will not meet this week
- Walter Rusin will speak on "Title: to be announced"
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Climate Change:
at 11:15 in VinH 570
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IMA Postdoc:
at 11:15 am in LindH 305
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Differential Geometry/Symplectic Topology:
at 1:25 in VinH 570
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Jr. Colloquium:
at 3:20 in VinH 16
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Combinatorics:
at 4:00 in VinH 570
Wednesday, 22 Apr 2009
- Dr. Stephen Griffeth will speak on "Cell modules for Hecke algebras and q-Schur algebras - a continuation"
- ... Will not meet this week
- Professor Ermanno Lanconelli from University of Bologna will speak on "A sphere theorem for a class of Reinhardt domains with constant Levi curvature"
- Eliot Brenner will speak on "Residual spectrum of a split unitary group - a continuation"
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Algebraic Representation Theory:
at 11:15 in VinH 203B
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IMA Seminar on Mathematics and Chemistry:
at 11:15 in Lind Hall 409
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PDE:
at 3:35 in VinH 364
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Working seminar on square-integrable automorphic forms:
at 3:35 in VinH 113
Thursday, 23 Apr 2009
- Sarah Post will speak on "Superintroduction to supersymmetry"
- Professor Alex Powell from Vanderbilt University will speak on "Reconstruction algorithms for quantized redundant representations"
- Professor William Messing will speak on "Numbers of solutions of equations in finite fields"
- ... Will not meet this week
- Tian-Jun Li will speak on "Symplectic cones of almost complex 4-manifolds"
- Professor Davesh Maulik from MIT will speak on "Noether-Lefschetz theory and Gromov-Witten theory"
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Mathematical Physics Seminar:
at 10:10 in Vincent Hall 570
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Applied Mathematics:
at 11:15 in VinH 570
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Math Club Seminar:
at 12:10 in VinH 120
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Student Seminar on Number Theory:
at 12:20 in VinH 203B
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Differential Geometry/Symplectic Topology:
at 1:25 in VinH 570
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Colloquium:
at 3:20 in VinH 16
Friday, 24 Apr 2009
- ... Will not meet this week
- Vanessa Lopez from IBM T.J. Watson Research Center will speak on "Computing invariant solutions of PDEs with symmetries"
- Professor Soumik Pal from University of Washington will speak on "Interacting diffusion models of capital markets"
- Professor Vincent Noireaux from Department of Physics will speak on "Cell-free expression: application to gene network and synthetic vesicles"
- Professor Dihua Jiang will speak on "Discrete spectrum and Arthur's parametrization"
- ... See Probability Seminar
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Student Combinatorics:
at 12:20 in VinH 570
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Industrial Problems:
at 1:25 in VinH 570
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Probability Seminar:
at 2:30 in VinH 213
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Mathematical Biology Seminar:
at 3:35 in VinH 313
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Automorphic Forms and Number Theory:
at 3:35 in VinH 364
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Practitioners' Financial Mathematics Seminar:
at 5:30 in VinH 16
