U of M - Mathematical Physics Seminar - Spring 2009


All the talks are on Thursday in Vincent Hall 570 at 10:10 am, unless noted otherwise.  For questions about the seminar, please contact Francis Valiquette.




Date
Speaker
Title



February 12
Francis Valiquette
Differential Invariant Algebra of the Infeld-Rowland Equation
February 19
Not Meeting

February 26
Not Meeting

March 5
Not Meeting

March 12
Peter Olver
Maximally Symmetric Submanifolds
March 26
Alexander Hanhart
Floer Gluing, Combinatorial Surfaces, and Topological Field Theory
April 2
Robert Thompson
The Noninvariant Variational Bicomplex
April 9
Francis Valiquette
The Invariant Variational Bicomplex
April 16
Not Meeting

April 23
Francis Valiquette
Comparison of Cartan's and Olver-Pohjanpelto's Structure Equations for Lie Pseudo-groups
April 30
Sarah Post
Superintroduction to Supersymmetry
May 7
Kaisa Taipale
A Brief Introduction to Derived Categories


Talks from the 2008 Fall semester.



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