Symplectic Topology and Differential geometry Seminar

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota






Fall 2005 \& Spring 06  
Organizer: Tian-Jun Li
Time: Thursday/Tuesday   1:25 p.m.

Place: Vincent Hall 570.

 

DATE SPEAKER TITLE
September 6 Ben Chow
(UCSD)
"Ricci solitons, entropy, no local collapse, and no cigar "
Abstract
September 8 Ben Chow
(UCSD)
"Geometry of gradient Ricci solitons"
Abstract
September 13 Ben Chow
(UCSD)

"Injective radius estimate"
September 15 Peng Lu
(University of Oregon)
"Ricci flow on locally homogeneous 4-manifolds"
September 15 Ben Chow
(UCSD)
Colloquium: Introduction to singularity analysis in Ricci Flow
September 20 Ben Chow
(UCSD)

"Singularities in Ricci flow"
September 22 Ben Chow
(UCSD)

"Singularities in Ricci flow"
September 27 Ben Chow
(UCSD)

"Singularities in Ricci flow"
September 29 Ben Chow
(UCSD)

"Singularities in Ricci flow"
Oct. 13 Bob Gulliver
U. Minnesota
"Total curvature and isotopy of graphs in R^3"
Abstract
Oct. 20 Peter Olver
U. Minnesota
"Lie pseudo-groups and moving frames"
Oct. 27 Peter Olver
U. Minnesota
"Lie pseudo-groups and moving frames--a continuation"
Nov. 3 Tian-Jun Li
U. Minnesota
"Symplectic structures on closed manifolds"
Nov. 10 Michael Cocos
U. Minnesota
"On the topology of compact affine manifolds"
Dec. 13 Jeff Viaclovsky
MIT
"Moduli spaces in Riemannian Geometry"
Dec. 14 Jeff Viaclovsky
MIT
"Fully nonlinear equations in conformal geometry"
Feb. 2 Vlad Markovich
U. Warwick
"Geometry of Hyperbolic convex hull boundaries"
Abstract
Feb. 9 Thomas Mark
SELU
"Product formulae for Oszvath-Szabo 4-manifolds invariants"
March 2 Pan Peng
Harvard
"On a ring structure of topological string partition function"
Abstract
March 9 Mao-Pei Tsui
University of Toledo
"Mean Curvature Flows and the Homotopy of Maps Between Spheres "
Abstract
March 23 Juan Souto
University of Chicago
"Heegaard splittings and minimal surfaces "
Abstract
March 30 Tian-Jun Li
University of Minnesota
"The Pontrjagin-Thom constructions in non-linear Fredholm theories "
April 6 Doug Park
University of Waterloo
"Non-isotopic symplectic surfaces in product 4-manifolds "
Abstract
April 13 Stephan Hildebrandt
University of Bonn
"Plateau's problem for Cartan functionals---existence"
Abstract
April 20 David Fisher
Indiana University
"Harmonic maps with infinite dimensional targets and cocycle superrigidity"
Abstract
April 27 Jose K. Martins
U. Federal do Amazons, Brazil/U. of Minn.
"Harmonic maps into complex projective spaces "
May 4 Tian-Jun Li
U. of Minn.
"Symplectic cobordisms "
May 4 Tian-Jun Li
U. of Minn.
"Low dimensional symplectic manifolds "




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