Regular meeting time: Wednesday
1100
Place: Manchester building, Room 209
2012-2013 Lectures
| Date
|
Speaker | Title and Abstract |
| November 7 Special time: 1200 |
Lev Buhovski Tel Aviv University |
Unboundedness of the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian in symplectic category |
| December 12 |
Liat Kessler Technion and University of Haifa |
Toric actions on symplectic blowups of the complex projective plane |
| December 19 Special place: Manchester 207 |
Yael Karshon University of Toronto |
Distinguishing symplectic blowups of the complex projective plane |
| December 26 Special place: Manchester 207 |
Yoav Len Yale University |
Brill-Noether theory of tropical curves |
| January 2 |
Dror Bar-Natan University of Toronto |
Balloons and hoops and their universal finite type invariant |
| January 23 Special place: Manchester 207 |
Chloé Perin University of Strasbourg |
Forking independence in the free group |
| April 24 Special time: 1200 |
Boris Botvinnik University of Oregon |
Surgery, bypass surgery and metrics with positive scalar curvature |
| May 8 |
Erwan Brugallé Université Pierre et Marie Curie |
Behavior of Welschinger invariants under Morse simplification |
| August 27 Special day: Tuesday Special time: 1400 |
Or Hershkovits Courant Institute |
Mean curvature flow of embedded curves into spheres |