| 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 |
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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) |
