| Topology/geometry seminar schedule for Fall 1999 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| September 13 | Organizational meeting | |
| September 20 | Bong Lian, Brandeis University | The potential function for Calabi-Yau 3-folds |
| September 27 | Ergun Yalcin, McMaster University | Group actions and group extensions, I. |
| October 4 | Ergun Yalcin | Group actions and group extensions, II. |
| October 11 | Nobody | Thanksgiving |
| October 18 | Mike McCooey, McMaster | Symmetry groups of four-manifolds |
| October 25 | Mike McCooey | Symmetry groups, cont'd |
| November 1 | Carmen Young, MIT | Understanding pseudo-holomorphic curves in symplectic cobordisms, and relations to contact geometry. Abstract |
| November 8 | Igor Belegradek, McMaster | Topological obstructions to nonnegative curvature. |
| November 15 | Doug Park, McMaster | Exotic smooth structures on some simply-connected 4-manifolds. |
| November 22 | Peng Lu, McMaster | Kahler-Einstein metrics on Kummer threefolds and special Lagrange tori. |
| November 29 | Peng Lu, continued | |