Location: Math 1311
Time: 3:00 PM
Day: Monday
Organizer: John Millson and Serguei Novikov
| September 11: | The decorated Teichmüller space of the punctured solenoid |
| Dragomir Saric (visiting the University of Maryland) | |
| September 18: | A progress report on positive scalar curvature |
| Jonathan Rosenberg (University of Maryland) | |
| September 25: | There will be no seminar because of Karsten's birthday party |
| October 2: | Reidemeister Torsion and Khovanov Homology |
| Juan Ariel Ortiz-Navarro (University of Iowa) | |
| October 9: | Quantum Teichmüller theory of bordered surfaces |
| Leonid Chekhov (Steklov Mathematical Institute (Moscow) and Corcordia University (Montreal)) | |
| October 16: | Gromov-Witten invariants and quantum cohomology of Grassmannians, I |
| Harry Tamvakis (University of Maryland) | |
| October 23: | Gromov-Witten invariants and quantum cohomology of Grassmannians, II |
| Harry Tamvakis (University of Maryland) | |
| October 30: | Hamiltonian G-spaces and equivariant K-theory |
| Greg Landweber (University of Oregon) | |
| November 6: | An update on the Weil-Petersson geometry of Teichmueller space |
| Scott Wolpert (University of Maryland) | |
| November 13: | A groupoid approach to noncommutative T-duality |
| Calder Daenzer (University of Pennsylvania) | |
| November 20: | Discrete complex reflection groups in PU(2,1) |
| Julien Paupert (Johns Hopkins ) | |
| November 27: | Reidemeister Torsion in the Khovanov Complex |
| Chris Truman (University of Maryland) | |
| December 4: | Resurgent functions and asymptotic expansions in quantum topology |
| Stavros Garoufalidis (Georgia Tech) | |
| January 29: | Moduli spaces of extremal Kähler metrics and the Calabi flow |
| Xiuxiong Chen (University of Wisconsin) | |
| February 5: | An update on the Weil-Petersson metric of Teichmüller space, II |
| Scott Wolpert (University of Maryland) | |
| February 12: | Shapes of embedded minimal surfaces |
| William Minicozzi (Johns Hopkins University) | |
| February 19: | Exponential growth and an asymptotic formula for the ranks of homotopy groups of a finite 1-connected complex |
| Steve Halperin (Our dean) | |
| February 22: | Ricci curvature for metric-measure spaces Special Seminar: Note change of day and time: 2PM, MTH 1311 |
| John Lott (Univ. of Michigan) | |
| February 26: | Triangle inequalities in path metric spaces |
| Misha Kapovich (UC Davis) | |
| March 5: | Higher index theory of elliptic operators and geometry of groups |
| Guoliang Yu (Vanderbilt Univ.) | |
| March 6: | Bounded rigidity of manifolds and asymptotic dimension Special Seminar: Note change of day and time: 2PM, MTH 3206 |
| Guoliang Yu (Vanderbilt Univ.) | |
| March 8: | A recent update on Kähler geometry Special Seminar: Note change of day and time: 2PM, MTH 1311 |
| Xiuxiong Chen (Univ. of Wisconsin) | |
| March 12: | A finite rank property of Teichmüller space |
| Sumio Yamada (Mathematical Institute Tohoku University) | |
| March 26: | Circuiar motion on Riemann surfaces. This talk is of interest to specialists in dynamical systems. |
| Piotr Grinevich (Landau Institute) | |
| April 2: | Affine cubic surfaces and SL(2)-characters of the 4-holed sphere |
| William Goldman (University of Maryland) | |
| April 9: | Rational billiards, translation surfaces, and ergodic theory Special lecture by chair candidate |
| Howie Masur (University of Illinois at Chicago) | |
| April 16: | TBA There will be no seminar this week because of the chair search |
| no seminar | |
| April 23: | The toric geometry of polygons in Euclidean space |
| Ben Howard (IMA) | |
| April 30: | A generalized Schubert calculus for symplectic circle manifolds |
| Rebecca Goldin (George Mason University) | |
| May 07: | Geometry and topology of polar manifolds Attendance for the party after the talk is compulsoryl |
| Karsten Grove (University of Maryland) |