| 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. |
| January 20 | Andrew Kricker, University of Toronto | Finite type invariants of cyclic branched covers. Abstract |
| January 27 | ||
| February 3 | Ian Hambleton, McMaster University | Homotopy self-equivalences of 4-manifolds. |
| February 10 | Mihail Tanase, McMaster University | Smooth finite cyclic group actions on positive definite four-manifolds. Abstract |
| February 17 | 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 |