| Topology/geometry seminar schedule for Winter 2001 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Title/Notes |
| January 8 | Organizational meeting | |
| January 15 | Virginie Charette, McMaster | Affine ultraideal triangle groups. |
| January 22 | Bernard Wagneur, University of Maryland | Arc-length parametrized curves in hyperbolic 3-space |
| January 29 | Michael McCooey, McMaster | Which groups can act on four-manifolds? |
| February 5 | Nick Ercolani, University of Arizona | Monopoles and Baker Functions |
| February 12 | Ana-Maria Matei, McMaster | On the optimality of the J. Cheeger and P. Buser inequalities. |
| February 19 | Winter Break | |
| February 26 | Thang Le, SUNY Buffalo | On the integrality of the colored Jones polynomial. |
| March 5 | ||
| March 12 | Nikolai Saveliev, Tulane University | On Akbulut Corks. |
| March 19 | Chris Herald, University of Nevada, Reno | Equivariant transversality and SU(n) gauge theory. Abstract. |
| March 26 | ||
| April 2 (Note new day.) | Regina Rotman, University of Toronto | Upper bounds on the length of the shortest closed geodesic on a simply-connected manifold. |
| April 9 | Bai-Ling Wang, University of Adelaide | Monopole homology and the Casson-Walker invariant. Abstract. |
| April 11 3:30 pm, GS 209 (NOTE TIME AND LOCATION) | Andrew Dancer, Oxford University | Integrability and the Einstein Equations |
| April 12, 2:00 pm, BSB-101 (NOTE TIME) | Saso Strle, Brandeis University (and soon, McMaster) | Genus bounds for surfaces in four-manifolds. |
| April 12, 3:30 pm, BSB B/103 | Ron Fintushel, Michigan State University | COLLOQUIUM: Exotic four-dimensional embeddings of real projective planes. |