This new seminar, which started in the Fall of 2007, focuses on the role that group actions play in Geometry and Dynamical Systems. Speakers are asked to devote at least half of the talk to concepts that can be understood by a graduate student with basic knowledge of differential geometry.
For some of the talks you can click on the Talk Title to get a ``pdf'' file of the talk. The schedule for this semester will be the following.
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DAY/TIME |
MIT ROOM |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
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February 6 Wednesday, 3-4pm Canceled |
4-231 |
Liat Kessler MIT |
Applications of J-holomorphic Curves to Torus Actions |
February 13 Wednesday, 3-4pm |
2-190 |
David Vogan MIT |
Group representations on Dolbeault cohomology |
February 20 Wednesday, 3-4pm |
2-143 |
Gerald Schwarz Brandeis University |
Real geometric invariant theory and double coset spaces |
February 27 Wednesday, 3-4pm |
2-143 |
Roger Howe Yale University |
Toric deformation, branching algebras and the Littlewood-Richardson coefficients |
March 5 Wednesday, 3-4pm |
2-143 |
Silvia Sabatini MIT |
On the T-Equivariant Cohomology of a Hamiltonian Manifold |
March 12 Wednesday, 3-4pm |
2-143 |
Victor Guillemin MIT |
Asymptotic Properties of Spectral Measures |
March 19 Wednesday, 4-5pm |
2-143 |
Yuuji Tanaka MIT |
Moment Maps in Gauge Theory |
March 26 SPRING BREAK |
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April 2 Wednesday, 4-5pm |
NOTE: 2-131 |
Ben Weinkove Harvard University |
Moment Maps and Geometric Flows |
April 9 Wednesday, 3-4pm Joint meeting with Geometry Seminar |
2-143 |
Dusa McDuff Columbia University Stony Brook University |
Some new 6-dimensional Hamiltonian S^1 manifolds |
April 18 NOTE: Friday, 2-3pm |
NOTE: 2-131 |
Alvaro Pelayo MIT |
Geometry of Symplectic Torus Actions |
April 23 NOTE: Wednesday, 2-3pm |
NOTE: 4-149 |
Bong Lian Brandeis University |
A convexity theorem and reduced Delzant spaces |
April 30 Wednesday, 3-4pm |
2-143 |
Matthew Szczesny Boston University |
Elliptic Genera: Equivariant and Orbifold Genera |
May 7 Wednesday, 3-4pm |
NOTE: 4-149 |
Hans Duistermaat Universiteit Utrecht |
Special Lectures on QRT Mapping and Elliptic Surfaces I |
May 9 NOTE: Friday, 3-4pm |
NOTE: 4-149 |
Hans Duistermaat Utrecht Universiteit |
Special Lectures on QRT Mapping and Elliptic Surfaces II |
May 14 Wednesday, 3-4pm |
NOTE: 4-159 |
Hans Duistermaat Universiteit Utrecht |
Special Lectures on Hamiltonian and non-Hamiltonian Geometry I |
May 16 NOTE: Friday, 3-4pm |
NOTE: 2-141 |
Hans Duistermaat Universiteit Utrecht |
Special Lectures on Hamiltonian and non-Hamiltonian Geometry II |