| September 13: |
The theta divisor and three-manifold invariants |
| Peter Ozsvath (Michigan State University) |
| September 20: |
Bending laminations, convex hulls and hyperbolic geometry |
| Martin Bridgeman (Boston College) |
| September 27: |
The 4-dimensional disk theorem in a finite cover |
| Vyakeslav Krushkal (Yale University) |
| October 4: |
The modular group and the Whitehead link |
| Richard Schwartz (University of Maryland) |
| October 11: |
Bounded cohomology of lattices in semisimple groups |
| Marc Burger (ETH Zurich) |
| October 18: |
Complex hyperbolic geometry and the moduli of cubic surfaces |
| Daniel Allcock (Harvard University) |
| October 25: |
An overview of skein modules |
| Jozef Przytycki (George Washington University (visiting University of Maryland)) |
| October 29: |
On links, functions, integrals and 3-manifold invariants Room 3206 from 1:00 to 2:00 |
| Dror bar-Natan |
| October 29: |
Hamiltonian torus actions Room 3206 from 2:00 to 3:00 |
| Yael Karshon |
| November 1: |
A new characterization of Kazhdan's property T (following Yehuda Shalom) |
| Alain Valette (Université de Neûchatel) |
| November 8: |
Equivariant Schubert Calculus |
| Rebecca Goldin (University of Maryland) |
| November 15: |
The cohomology of weight varieties |
| Rebecca Goldin (University of Maryland) |
| November 22: |
Asymptotically flat Riemannian manifolds |
| Anton Petrunin (IHES) |
| November 29: |
Geodesic flows of nonpositively curved graph manifolds special colloquium in 1311 |
| Bruce Kleiner (University of Michigan) |
| November 30: |
The geometry of the group of contact transformations |
| Yakov Eliashberg (Princeton University) |
| December 6: |
Constructing compact spaces by computer |
| David Epstein (Warwick University) |
| December 7: |
Chaotic phenomena in homogeneous dynamics and applications to number theory joint with dynamics in room 3206 |
| Dimitry Kleinbock (Rutgers University) |
| February 2: |
2 polyhedra of curvature bounded above Special Seminar in 3206 at 3:00 |
| Yuri Burago (St. Petersburg University) |
| February 7: |
From strings to particles |
| Ron Donagi (Univ. of Pennsylvania) |
| February 8: |
From strings to particles(cont.) 10:00 - 11:00 in 3206 |
| Ron Donagi (UPenn) |
| February 14: |
Positive Yamabe invariant and surgery |
| Boris Botvinnik (Univ. of Oregon) |
| February 21: |
Torsion in the Artin-Brieskorn braid groups and the Springer numbers |
| Ossip Schwarzmann |
| February 28: |
Topological obstructions to nonnegative curvature |
| Vitali Kapovich (Penn) |
| March 6: |
On nonformal symplectic manifolds |
| Iskander Taimanov |
| March 13: |
The Mathematics of Rubik's Cube |
| Jeffrey Adams (University of Maryland) |
| March 27: |
Bending flows of polygonal linkages in E^3, H^3 and S^3. |
| Tom Treloar (University of Maryland) |
| April 3: |
Hodge Theory and Motives (motivating motives). |
| Niranjan Ramachandran (University of Maryland) |
| April 10: |
Action-angle variables for flag manifolds |
| Wulf Rossmann (University of Ottawa) |
| April 17: |
The metric fibrations of Euclidean space |
| Gerard Walschap (University of Oklahoma) |
| April 24: |
A new approach to knots and links |
| I.Dynnikov (Moscow State University) |
| May 1: |
Harmonic maps to Teichmüller space |
| Richard Wentworth (The Johns Hopkins University) |
| May 4: |
Morse theory, Bott periodicity and Hamiltonian actions of loop groups MTH 0106 3:30 - 4:45 |
| Jonathan Weitsman (UC Santa Cruz) |
| May 8: |
Bounded cohomology and geometric rigidity |
| Alessandra Iozzi (University of Maryland) |
