Fall 2006 schedule
Spring 2007 schedule

Note: the symplectic geometry / mirror symmetry reading group meets on Mondays at 4:30pm in the same room.

Fall 2007

• Monday September 10: Denis Auroux (MIT): Mirror symmetry in the complement of an anticanonical divisor
• Monday September 17: John Baldwin (Columbia): Comultiplication and the Ozsvath-Szabo contact invariant
  (Monday September 24: no seminar - student holiday)
• Monday October 1: Yuuji Tanaka (MIT): The Donaldson-Thomas instantons on Kähler threefolds
  (Monday October 8: no seminar - Columbus Day)
• Monday October 15: Brett Kotschwar (MIT): Gradient estimates of p-harmonic functions, 1/H flow, and an entropy formula
• Monday October 22: Shelly Harvey (Rice): Structure in the knot concordance group
• Monday October 29: Marco Gualtieri (MIT): Bihermitian metrics and Poisson modules
  Monday October 29, at 4:30: David Gabai (Princeton): Volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
• Monday November 5: David Nadler (Northwestern): Springer theory for symplectic geometers
  (Monday November 12: no seminar - Veterans' Day)
• Monday November 19: Lenny Ng (Duke): Symplectic Field Theory for Legendrian knots
• Monday November 26: Larry Guth (Stanford): Symplectic embeddings of polydisks
• Monday December 3: Ralph Cohen (Stanford): The Floer homotopy type of cotangent bundles
• Monday December 10: Jacob Lurie (MIT): Topological field theories in low dimensions

Spring 2008 schedule