Differential Geometry & Symplectic Topology Seminar

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota






2009-2010  
Organizer: Anar Akhmedov
Time: Thursdays  1:25 p.m. (Sometimes on Tuesdays)

Place: Vincent Hall 570.

 

2009-2010

DATE SPEAKER TITLE
October 1 Sai Kee Yeung
Purdue University
"Classification of fake projective planes and its applications in geometry and topology"
October 8 Anar Akhmedov
University of Minnesota
"The geography of symplectic 4-manifolds" Part I
Abstract
October 15 Ren Guo
University of Minnesota
"Almost Fuchsian manifolds and Teichmuller distance"
Abstract
October 22 Anar Akhmedov
University of Minnesota
"The geography of symplectic 4-manifolds" Part II
Abstract
October 29


November 5 Ho, Chung-I
University of Minnesota
"Luttinger surgery and Kodaira dimension"
Abstract
November 12 Ke Zhu
Hongkong Chinese University
"Jet Evaluation Transversality of J-holomorphic Curves and Applications"
November 20 (Friday, 3:35, VINCENT HALL 206) Jon Wolfson
Michigan State University
"Remarks on a Geometric Flow"
November 26
No Seminar - Thanksgiving

December 3 Guoyi Xu
University of Minnesota
"Short-time existence of the Ricci flow on noncompact Riemannian manifolds"
Abstract
December 8 Ludmil Katzarkov
University of Miami
"TBA"
December 10 Changyou Wang
University of Kentucky
"TBA"
December 17


January 21 TBA


January 28 TBA


February 4


February 11


February 18


February 25


March 3


March 11


March 18
Spring Break

March 25 Josef Dorfmeister
Leibniz University Hannover
TBA
April 1 Selman Akbulut
Michigan State University
TBA
April 8


April 15


April 22


April 29


May 6






Seminars in the School of Mathematics.
e-mail: akhmedov@math.umn.edu