SPRING 1999
Time: Friday 3:35pm Place: VH 211
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 4/16 | N. Kapouleas (Brown) | Desingularizing the intersection of minimal surfaces
in three-dimensional Riemannian manifolds |
| 4/23 | D. Schwalbe and S. Wagon (Macalester College) | Invisible Handshake: Sculpting a Giant Costa Surface |
| 4/30 | A. Freire (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville) | Compactness and global existence for wave maps. |
| 5/7 | S. Adams (UMN) | Orbit nonproper dynamics on Lorentz manifolds |
| 5/14 | F.H. Lin (Courant Institute) | Analysis aspects of harmonic maps, II |
| 5/21 | K. Corlette (University of Chicago) | Infinitely many harmonic maps between spheres |
| 5/28 | T. Graber (Harvard) | Gromov-Witten theory for hyperelliptic curves |
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 1/8 | M. Fels (Utah State) | The Palais condition |
| 1/29 | S. Adams | More on superrigidity and arithmeticity |
| 2/5 | E. Zaslow (Northwestern) | Local Mirror Symmetry |
| 2/12 | Z.Q. Lu (Columbia Univ) | On the lower order terms of
the asymptotic expansion of Zelditch |
| 3/5 | T. Morimoto (Kyoto Univ of Education) | Geometry of Monge-Ampere Equations |
| 3/12 | N.C. Leung (UMN) | Differential geometric aspects of Calabi-Yau manifolds |
FALL 1998
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 4/10 | G. Tian (MIT) | Yang-Mills equation and Minimal Submanifolds, I |
| 4/14 | G. Tian (MIT) | Yang-Mills equation and Minimal Submanifolds, II |
| 4/17 | T. Jorgensen (Columbia University) | Punctured torus bundles |
| 4/21 | G. Tian (MIT) | Yang-Mills equation and Minimal Submanifolds, III |
| 4/24 | G. Tian (MIT) | Yang-Mills equation and Minimal Submanifolds, IV |
| 4/24 | J.Y. Li (MIT) | Chern-Simons Higgs model and Kazdan-Warner problem |
| 4/28 | G. Tian (MIT) | Yang-Mills equation and Minimal Submanifolds, V |
| 5/08 | R. Palais (Brandeis University) | T.B.A. |
| 5/15 | M. Loss (Georgia Inst. of Technology) | T.B.A. |
| 5/22 | N.C. Leung (UMN) | Counting curves with tangency condition |
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 5/4 | B. Hassett (University of Chicago) | Rational cubic fourfold |
| 5/26 | R. Vakil (Princeton University) | Characteristic numbers of elliptic plane curves |
WINTER 1998
Time: Friday 3:35pm Place: VH 211
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 1/23 | I. Roussos (Hamline University) | |
| 2/6 | N. C. Leung (UMN) | |
| 2/13 | Koo (UMN) | |
| 2/20 | B. Gulliver (UMN) | |
| 2/27 | P. Lu (UMN) | |
| 3/6 | J. Bryan (UC Berkeley) | |
| 3/13 | S. Adams (UMN) |
FALL 1997
Time: Friday 3:35pm Place: VH 211
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 10/10 | N.C. Leung. (UMN) | Yau-Zaslow formula: Counting rational curves on K3 surfaces |
| 10/17 | P. Lu (UMN) | Special Lagrangian in Kummer Calabi-Yau threefold |
| 10/31 | S. Adams (UMN) | Dynamics on Lorentz manifolds |
| 11/14 | N.C. Leung (UMN) | Analytic torsion, I |
| 11/21 | S.K. Yi (UMN) | Analytic torsion, II |
SPRING 1997
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 4/11 | A.Marden, (UMN) | Hyperbolizing 3-mfd I: A survey |
| 4/18 | R.Wentworth, (UCI) | YM flows near the bdy of the Teimuller Space |
| 4/25 | A.Marden, (UMN) | Hyperbolizing 3-mfd II: Deforming surfaces |
| 5/2 | A.Marden, (UMN) | Hyperbolizing 3-mfd III: Hyperbolic gluing |
| 5/9 | N.C.Leung, (UMN) | Non-Abelian Seiberg Witten equations |
| 5/16 | B.Lian, (Brandeis Univ.) | Mirror symmetry and the large radius limit problem |
| 5/23 | P.Lu, (UMN) | Degeneration of Kahler-Einstein |
| 5/30 | I.Rivin, (Univ. of Warwick & CIT) | Combinatorial mean and scalar curvature- Schlafi differential formula and some applications |
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 1/24 | J. Sullivan (UMN) | Thick Knots and Twisted Pairs |
| 2/7 | G.Maribeff (Univ. of Wisconsin) | Projectively Invariant Differential Evolutions and the Second KdV Hamiltonian Structure |
| 2/14 | M. Heiko(Bonn) | Elastic Knots in Euclidean Three-Space |
| 2/28 | Tom Ilmanel | The -1/H flow & Hawking Penrose conjecture II |
| 3/7 | S.Adams (UMN) | Dynamics on Lorentzian manifold |
| 3/14 | S.Adams (UMN) | More on dynamics on Lorentzian manifold |
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 4/2 | J. Sullivan (UMN) | The Minimax sphere eversion. |
| 4/12 | S. Adams (UMN) | The E. Hopf conjecture: The ellipsoid criterion |
| 4/19 | S. Adams (UMN) | The E. Hopf conjecture: The visual map |
| 4/26 | N.C. Leung (UMN) | Hermitian Einstein metric on vector bundles |
| 5/3 | R. Kusner (U. Mass Amherst) | Moduli spaces of embedded CMC surfaces with few ends |
| 5/10 | R. Kusner (U. Mass Amherst) | Natural Lagrangian and symplectic structures for
embedded CMC moduli spaces |
| 5/17 | B. Chow (UMN) | TBA |
| 5/24 | N. Schmitt | TBA |
| 5/31 | G. Huisken (University of Turbingen) | TBA |
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 1/19 | N.C. Leung (UMN) | Foliations and Godbillon-Vey invariants |
| 1/26 | S. Adams (UMN) | The E.Hopf Conjecture: Construction of Rational Vector Fields |
| 2/2 | B. Chow (UMN) | Constrained and Linear Harnack Inequalities for Geometric Evolution Equations |
| 2/9 | R. Gulliver (UMN) | The Aleksandrov reflection principle for certain self-intersecting hypersurfaces |
| 2/16 | K. Corlette (University of Chicago) | Superrigidity for Rank one groups |
| 2/20 | K. Corlette (University of Chicago) | Non-Abelian Hodge theory, I |
| 2/23 | K. Corlette (University of Chicago) | Hausdorff dimensions of limit sets |
| 2/27 | K. Corlette (University of Chicago) | Non-Abelian Hodge theory, I |
| 3/1 | S. Adams (UMN) | The E.Hopf Conjecture: Boundary theory for periodic metrics |
| 3/5 | K. Corlette (University of Chicago) | Non-Abelian Hodge theory, I |
| 3/7 | K. Corlette (University of Chicago) | Non-Abelian Hodge theory, I |
| 3/8 | J. Sullivan (UMN) | TBA |