FALL 1999   Time: Thursday 1:25pm. Place: Vincent Hall 213.

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
9/16	Ben Chow  (University of Minnesota)	Survey of Hamilton's work on  singularity formation for the  Ricci flow in dimension 3.
9/23	Naichung Conan Leung  (University of Minnesota)	Rational curves in Calabi-Yau threefolds.
9/30		no seminar
10/7	Ben Chow  (University of Minnesota)	Survey of Hamilton's work on  singularity formation for the  Ricci flow in dimension 3, part II.
10/14	Margaret Symington  (Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)	Symplectic rational blowdown.
10/21	Jiaping Wang  (University of Minnesota)	Sharp estimate of the dimension of  harmonic functions.
10/28	Jim Isenberg  (University of Oregon)	Understanding the evolution of  cosmological solutions  of  Einstein's equations
11/4	Jiaping Wang  (University of Minnesota)	Uniqueness of harmonic maps
11/11	Scot Adams  (University of Minnesota)	Lorentz Dynamics: The finale.
11/18	Benson Farb  (University of Chicago)	The asymptotic geometry of groups.
11/25	Thanksgiving Holiday
12/2	Richard Thomas  (Harvard University)	Mirror symmetry, braid groups  and singularities
12/10 (Date  changed)	Chris Guenther	Proving the well conjecture  using Ricci flow Friday at 3:35 pm in VH203a
12/16	Jim Bryan (Tulane Univeristy)	G-bundles, hyperkahler manifolds and stringy Hodge numbers.

Seminars in the School of Mathematics.
If you have any suggestion, please contact Naichung Conan Leung:
e-mail: leung@math.umn.edu
Here is the schedule for previous seminars.