Dartmouth Geometry & Topology Seminar

Tuesday 4-5 PM
004 Kemeny Hall

Fall 2011 - Spring 2012

Note: Special meeting times are marked in red.

Date	Speaker	Title
September 23 8:45AM	Rosa Sena-Dias (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon)	Scalar-flat Kaehler metrics on non-compact toric surfaces
September 27	Miguel Sanchez (University of Granada, Spain)	Lorentzian manifolds isometrically embeddable in Lorentz-Minkowski space
October 4	Carolyn Gordon (Dartmouth)	Deceptively(?) simple-sounding open problems on flat tori
October 11	Vladimir Chernov (Dartmouth)	Conformal maps from spacetimes to the space of Legendrian submanifolds and cuasality on causally simple spacetimes
October 18	No Talk	No Talk
October 25	Eli Grigsby (Boston College)	Homology-type invariants in low-dimensional topology
November 1	Peter Herbrich (Cambridge)	On inaudible properties of broken drums - isospectral domains with mixed boundary conditions
November 8	Boris Goldfarb (SUNY Albany)	Homotopy methods in topological rigidity
November 11 8:45AM	Joan Licata (Inst. Adv. Study)	Legendrian contact homology for Seifert fibered spaces
November 15	Petra Bonfert-Taylor (Wesleyan)	Teichmueller's Extremal Maps and Quasiconformal Homogeneity
November 22	Chris Beasley (Northeastern)	Supersymmetric Chern-Simons theory on a contact manifolds
November 29	TBD	TBD
January 10	Peter Buser (EPFL)	Jacobians of degenerating Riemann surfaces
January 17	Asa Levi (Dartmouth)	Vassiliev Invariants of Virtual Framed and Virtual Legendrian Knots
January 24	Sheila Margherita Sandon (IAS)	On translated points of contactomorphisms
January 31	TBD
February 3 (9AM Geom Lab)	Charles Frohman	Khovanov's sl_3 invariant and the homology of representation varieties of web groups
February 7	TBD
February 10 (9AM Geom. Lab)	Ben McReynolds (Purdue University)	TBD
February 14	Ben Linowitz (Dartmouth Colege)	Isospectral hyperbolic surfaces of small volume, Part I
February 21	Ben Linowitz (Dartmouth Colege)	Isospectral hyperbolic surfaces of small volume, Part II
February 28	Takashi Kimura (Boston University)	TBD
March 6	TBD
March 27	No Talk
April 3	Vladimir Chernov (Dartmouth College)	Smooth cosmic censroship
April 10	Dubi Kelmer (Boston College)	On the spectrum and length spectrum of hyperbolic manifolds
April 20 (3PM Geom Lab)	Rostislav Grigorchuk (Texas A&M)	Topologies on spaces of subgroups and Schreier graphs, totally non free actions, and IRS
April 24	Gabriel Katz	TBD
May 1	TBD	TBD
May 8	TBD	TBD
May 15	Roman Golovko (Universite de Montreal)	A few remarks on Lagrangian cobordisms
May 22	Brian Jennings (Westfield State University)	TBD
May 29	TBD	TBD

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