| Topology/geometry seminar schedule for Winter 2000 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Title/Notes |
| January 10 | ||
| January 17 | Igor Belegradek, McMaster | Finiteness theorems for nonnegatively curved manifolds |
| January 24 | No seminar | Two candidate talks this week; see activity sheet |
| January 31 | ||
| Wednesday, February 9, 2:30-3:30, BSB B139 | Thomas Mattman, McGill University | Finite Surgeries on Pretzel Knots. Abstract |
| February 14 | Mike McCooey, McMaster | Z_p x Z_p actions on four-manifolds |
| February 21 | Reading week | |
| February 28 | ||
| March 6 | ||
| March 13 | Ergun Yalcin, McMaster | Free actions of p-groups on products of lens spaces |
| March 20 | ||
| March 27 | Huai-Dong Cao, Texas A&M and Harvard University | On Kaehler-Ricci Solitons Abstract |
| April 3 | Ian Hambleton, McMaster | On the spherical space form problem. |
| Friday, April 28, 3:00-4:00 pm, BSB B139 | Stephen Yau, U. of Illinois, Chicago | Special seminar: Moduli and modular groups of a class of Calabi-Yau n-dimensional manifolds, n>2. Abstract |
| Monday, June 26, 2:00-3:30 pm, BSB 101 | Xingru Zhang, SUNY Buffalo | Special seminar: Knots with Property P. |