Topology/geometry seminar schedule for Winter 2003 |
Date | Speaker | Title/Notes |
January 6 |
Gordon Craig, SUNY Stony Brook |
Einstein Compactifications of Hyperbolic 4-Manifolds.
Abstract |
January 13 |
Gideon Maschler, University of Toronto |
A moduli curve for conformally-Einstein Kahler metrics.
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January 20 |
Andrew Kricker, University of Toronto |
Finite type invariants of cyclic branched covers.
Abstract |
January 27 |
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February 3 |
Ian Hambleton, McMaster University |
Homotopy self-equivalences of 4-manifolds.
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February 10 |
Mihail Tanase, McMaster University |
Smooth finite cyclic group actions on positive definite four-manifolds. Abstract |
February 17 |
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Mid-term recess |
February 24 |
Tolga Etgu, McMaster University |
Non-isotopic symplectic tori in the same homology class.
Abstract |
March 3 |
Alexander Felshtyn, University of Siegen, Germany |
Dynamical zeta functions, Nielsen theory and Reidemeister torsion.
Abstract |
March 10 |
Saso Strle, McMaster University |
Homology lens spaces and four-ball genus of knots.
Abstract |
March 17 |
Eleny Ionel, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Embedded curves in 3-folds and the GV conjecture.
Abstract |
March 24 |
Hans Boden, McMaster University |
Calculations of the Casson-Curtis SL(2,C) invariant.
Abstract |
March 31 |
Olivier Collin, UQAM |
Exact triangles in Floer homology.
Abstract |
April 7 |
Zindine Djadli, Universite de Cergy-Pontoise, and IAS |
Best constants for optimal Sobolev inequalities for compact
manifolds.
Abstract |
April 14 |
Marcelo De Oliveira, University of Toronto |
Groups and Lie algebras of hermitian type.
Abstract |
April 21 |
Alexander Stoimenov, University of Toronto |
On some relations between hyperbolic volume and combinatorial knot invariants.
Abstract |