Algebra-Geometry-Topology Seminar 2009

Organisers:

Arun Ram

Craig Westerland

Program in July

Wednesday, 1 July, 14:15-16:15, 213 Richard Berry

Søren Galatius (Stanford): Monoids of moduli spaces of manifolds

Friday, 3 July, 9:45-17:00, Old Geology 2

Mini symposium: Discrete conformal invariance, SLE and integrable lattice models

Monday, 6 July - Friday 10 July, UNSW Campus, Sydney

PRIMA Congress

Thursday, 16 July, 14:15-16:15, Russell Love Theatre, Richard Berry

Stefan Müller (KIAS): Continuity of spectral invariants in Hamiltonian Floer theory

Thursday, 23 July, 14:15-16:15, Russell Love Theatre, Richard Berry

Danny Calegari (Caltech): Surface subgroups from homology

 

Semester 2, 2009

Seminars will be normally be held on Mondays from 14:15-16:15 in the Cuming Theatre in Chemistry, and at the same time on Thursdays in the Russell Love Theatre in Richard Berry.

 

Monday, 27 July, 14:15-16:15, Cuming Theatre, Chemistry

Emily Proctor (Middlebury) and Liz Stanhope (Lewis and Clark): Spectral Geometry and Finiteness Results for Orbifolds

Monday, 3 August, 14:15-16:15, Cuming Theatre, Chemistry

Danny Calegari (Caltech): Faces of the scl norm ball

Monday, 10 August, 14:15-16:15, Cuming Theatre, Chemistry

Danny Calegari (Caltech): Scl, sails, and surgery

Monday, 17 August, 14:15-16:15, Cuming Theatre, Chemistry

Matt Davis (Wisconsin): The Affine Hecke Algebra at Roots of Unity

Tuesday, 18 August, 14:15-16:15, Babel G03 Lower Theatre

Jose Burillo (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya): Metric properties about the family of Thompson's groups

Tuesday, 15 September, 14:00-15:15, Hercus Theatre, David Caro

Ryo Hanaki (Waseda): Pseudo diagrams of knots, links and spatial graphs and its related topics

Monday, 5 October, 14:15-15:15, Cuming Theatre, Chemistry

Louis Rowen (Bar-Ilan): TBA

Monday, 5 October, 15:30-16:30, Cuming Theatre, Chemistry

Geordie Williamson (Oxford): Some geometric methods in modular representation theory

Wednesday, 7 October, 14:15-15:15, Babel Middle Theatre (106)

Mohammed Abouzaid (MIT/Clay Math): String topology and the Fukaya category of cotangent bundles

Wednesday, 7 October, 15:30-16:30, Babel Middle Theatre (106)

Mohammed Abouzaid (MIT/Clay Math): A topological model for the Fukaya category of plumbings

Monday, 12 October, 15:15-16:15, Cuming Theatre, Chemistry

Peter Zograf (Steklov Institute): Volumes of moduli spaces of complex algebraic curves

Monday, 26 October, 14:15-15:15, Cuming Theatre, Chemistry

Maurice Chiodo (Melbourne): Conditional decision problems and hunting algorithms in group theory.

Monday, 2 November, 13:00-14:15, JH Michell, Richard Berry

Finnur Lárusson (Adelaide): Oka manifolds

Thursday, 5 November -- Friday, 6 November, Russell Love Theatre, Richard Berry

27th Victorian Algebra Conference

Monday, 9 November, 14:15-16:15, Sisalkraft Theatre, Architecture

Ben Burton (UQ): The Weber-Seifert dodecahedral space: Theory, algorithms and computation in 3-manifold topology

Monday, 16 November, 14:15-16:15, Sisalkraft Theatre, Architecture

John Enyang (Melbourne): Representations of Birman-Murakami-Wenzl Algebras

Monday, 23 November, 14:15-16:15, Sisalkraft Theatre, Architecture

Andrei Ratiu (Istanbul Bilgi University): Unified Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev Invariants for Homology Spheres

Minicourse Summer 2009

Thursday, 12 November, 14:15-16:15, 213 Richard Berry

Introduction to categories

Thursday, 19 November, 14:15-16:15, 213 Richard Berry

Introduction to equivariant cohomology

Thursday, 26 November, 14:15-16:15, 213 Richard Berry

Moment maps on flag varieties and piecewise linear functions

Summer 2009

Monday, 7 December, 13:00-14:00, Sisalkraft Theatre, Architecture

Yves de Cornulier (Rennes): Proper actions of wreath products

Monday, 7 December, 14:15-16:15, Sisalkraft Theatre, Architecture

Callum Sleigh (Melbourne): Introduction to Gopakumar-Vafa Gauge/String Duality

Thursday, 10 December, 14:15-16:15, 213 Richard Berry

Rahbar Virk (Wisconsin): The structure of highest weight representations

Monday, 21 December, 14:15-16:15, Sisalkraft Theatre, Architecture

Ben Burton (UQ): The feasibility of algorithms in 3-manifold topology

Semester 1, 2010

Monday, 31 May, (Tentative)

Alistair Savage (Ottawa): TBA