| Topology/geometry seminar schedule for Fall 2001 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Title/Notes |
| September 10, BSB-229 | Organizational meeting | |
| September 17, 4:00 pm | Saso Strle, McMaster | Genus bounds for divisible classes in four-manifolds |
| September 24 | Brendan Owens, McMaster | A Hitchin-Kobayashi correspondence for certain noncompact Kahler manifolds |
| October 1 | Seminar cancelled by popular supply | |
| Britton Lectures, October 2-5 | Rob Kirby, Berkeley | Lectures on Ozsvath and Szabo's Floer homology for 3-manifolds |
| October 8 | No seminar -- Thanksgiving Day | |
| October 15 | Peng Lu, McMaster | Hamilton's injectivity radius estimate for sequences with almost nonnegative curvature |
| October 22 | Liviu Mare, McMaster | Periodic Toda lattices and quantum cohomology |
| October 29 | ||
| November 5 | Min-oo, McMaster | K-area, mass, and scalar curvature. |
| November 12 | Yuhan Lim, UC Santa Cruz | A non-abelian Seiberg-Witten three-manifold invariant. |
| November 19 | Vestislav Apostolov, UQAM | Ortho-toric Kahler manifolds. Abstract. |
| November 26 | ||
| December 3 | Stefano Vidussi, Michigan State University | Norms on the cohomology of a 3-manifold and Seiberg-Witten theory. Abstract. |
| December 10 | K. Shankar, University of Michigan | Symmetries of positively curved, cohomogeneity one manifolds. Abstract. |