Algebra-Geometry-Topology Seminar 2011

Summer Program

Wednesday, 5 January, 14:00-16:00, TBA (Tentative)

Hisham Sati (Maryland): TBA

Monday, 7 February to Friday, 11 February, Macquarie University

AMSI International Conference on Harmonic Analysis and Applications:

Friday, 25 February, 12:00-13:00, 215 Richard Berry

Peter Scott (Michigan): On JSJ theory for 3-manifolds

Semester 1, 2011

Tuesday, 1 March, 15:15-16:15, Old Arts D

Henry Segerman (Melbourne): Veering triangulations admit strict angle structures

Thursday, 3 March, 14:15-15:15, 107 Richard Berry

Sze-Yu Chen (Melbourne): Finitely presented abelian-by-nilpotent Lie algebras

Tuesday, 8 March, 15:15-16:15, Old Arts D

Arun Ram (Melbourne): Polytopes, shuffles, quivers and flags

Friday, 18 March, 15:15-16:15, Old Geology 2

Amnon Neeman (ANU): Triangulated categories acting on each other, and the relation with support varieties

Tuesday, 22 March, 15:15-16:15, Old Arts D

Ewan Morrison (Glasgow): Frobenius manifolds and equations of hydrodynamic type

Monday, 28 March, 9:30-10:30, 107 Richard Berry

Arun Ram (Melbourne): Complex reflection group data

Monday, 28 March, 16:15-17:15, Richard Berry, Room G

Don Taylor (U. Sydney): Root data for complex reflection groups

Tuesday, 5 April, 15:15-16:15, Old Arts D

Callum Sleigh (Melbourne): Chern Simons Theory with Complex Gauge Group and Topological String Theory of the A Polynomial

Friday, 8 April, 16:15-17:15, 213 Richard Berry

Anthony Blaom (Auckland): Lie Algebroids and Uniformization

Tuesday, 19 April, 15:15-16:15, Old Arts D

Hyam Rubinstein (Melbourne): Some new aspherical 4-manifolds

Wednesday, 27 April, 15:15-16:15, 213 Richard Berry

Vincent Beck (ENS Cachan): How abelianization of subgroups of braid groups applies to cohomology

Tuesday, 3 May, 15:15-16:15, Old Arts D

Tharatorn Supasiti (Melbourne): On JSJ theory for Haken 3-manifolds

Friday 6 May, 14:15-15:15, Russell Love Theatre, Richard Berry

S. K. Jain (Ohio State): Group Algebras - injectivity and its generalizations

Thursday 12 May, 13:00-14:15, Old Geology, Theatre 2

Silvia Montarani (ANU): Representations of Gan-Ginzburg algebras and quiver-related differential operators

Friday 13 May, 14:15-15:15, Richard Berry 215

Frédéric Rochon (ANU): Asymptotics of the Ricci flow on quasiprojective varieties

Tuesday, 17 May, 15:15-16:15, Old Arts D

Norman Do (Melbourne): Counting lattice points in compactified moduli spaces of curves

Tuesday, 24 May, 15:15-16:15, Old Arts D

Jonathan Brundan (Oregon): Khovanov's arc algebra and the walled Brauer algebra

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 6, 8, and 10 June, 14:00-15:15, Richard Berry 213

Geordie Williamson (Oxford): Minicourse on Moment graphs

Tuesday 14 June, 14:00-15:00, 215 Richard Berry

Frank Calegari (Northwestern): Reciprocity in the Langlands Program

Thursday 16 June, 14:00-15:00, 215 Richard Berry

Frank Calegari (Northwestern): The cohomology of hyperbolic 3-manifolds

Thursday 16 June, 15:15-16:15, 215 Richard Berry

Natalia Rozhovskaya (Kansas State): The q-characters of representations of quantum affine algebras

Friday 17 June, 15:00-16:15, 215 Richard Berry

Ilia Zharkov (Kansas State): Tropical Homology

Winter Break

Monday, 11 July, 16:00-17:00, 213 Richard Berry

Owen Dearricott (UCLA): A 7-manifold with positive curvature

Monday-Friday 11-22 July, University of Melbourne

Geometry and Topology Down Under: A conference in honour of Hyam Rubinstein.

Semester 2, 2011

Friday 5 August 15:15-16:15, 213 Richard Berry

Ezra Getzler (Northwestern): Higher analytic stacks

Friday 12 August 15:15-16:15, 213 Richard Berry

Susanna Fishel (Arizona State): A bijection between cores and dominant Shi regions

Monday 15 August 14:00, Science Lecture Theatre S14, Monash University,

Peter Sarnak (Princeton): Zeroes and nodal lines of modular forms

Monday 15 August 18:00, Laby Theatre, David Caro Building

Peter Sarnak (Princeton): Randomness in number theory

Friday 19 August 15:15-16:15, 213 Richard Berry

Kaneda Masaharu (Osaka City University): Geometry of the flag variety and G₁T-Verma modules

Thursday 25 August, 13:00-14:15, Russell Love Theatre, Richard Berry

Vyacheslav Futorny (São Paulo, Brasil): Representations of Lie algebra of vector fields on a torus

Friday 26 August 15:15-16:15, 213 Richard Berry

David Blanc (Haifa University): Recognizing mapping spaces

Monday 29 August 13:00-14:00, Old Geology Theatre 2

Peter McNamara (Stanford): TBA

Tuesday 30 August 16:15-17:15, Old Geology Theatre 1

Thomas Forster (Cambridge and Auckland): The Axiom Scheme of Replacement

Friday-Sunday September 2-4, Australian National University

Algebraic Cycles and the Geometry of Group Orbits.

Monday-Friday September 5-9, Institute for Geometry and its Applications, Adelaide

Group-valued moment maps with applications to mathematics and physics.

Friday 9 September 15:15-16:15, 213 Richard Berry

Hyam Rubinstein (Melbourne): Hyperplane arrangements and compression schemes

Monday-Friday September 19-23, Australian National University

The Geometry of Differential Equations.

Monday-Thursday 26-29 September, University of Wollongong

55th Annual meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society.

Friday 7 October 15:15-16:15, 213 Richard Berry

Jim Isenberg (Oregon): Recent developments on Ricci flow of surfaces

Wednesday 12 October 15:15-16:15, 213 Richard Berry

Anitha Thillaisundaram (Cambridge): The concept of p-deficiency and its applications

Friday 21 October 15:15-16:15, 213 Richard Berry

Liz Stanhope (Lewis & Clark): Do the wave invariants of a Riemannian orbifold detect its singular structure?

Friday 28 October 15:15-16:15, 213 Richard Berry

Arun Ram (Melbourne): Schubert calculus

Friday 4 November 15:15-16:15, 213 Richard Berry

Norman Do (Melbourne): The geometry and combinatorics of Gromov-Witten theory

Friday 18 November 15:15-16:15, 213 Richard Berry

Snigdhayan Mahanta (Adelaide): Algebraic K-theory of topological algebras

Tuesday 22 November 14:30-15:30, 213 Richard Berry

Murray Elder (Newcastle): New examples of totally disconnected, locally compact groups coming from geometric group theory

Friday 25 November 15:15-16:15, 213 Richard Berry

Mícheál Ó Searcóid (University College Dublin): The first* theorem of Set Theory

Thursday-Friday 1-2 December, Melbourne University

Statistical Mechanics Meeting.

Thursday-Friday 1-2 December, Latrobe University

Twenty-Ninth Annual Victorian Algebra Conference.

Friday 16 December 15:15-16:15, 213 Richard Berry

Zajj Daugherty (Dartmouth): The affine BMW algebra and its degenerate version

Tuesday 20 December 14:15-15:15, 213 Richard Berry

Lisa Carbone (Rutgers): A lightcone construction of the twin building of a hyperbolic Kac-Moody group

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