Topology-Geometry seminar

Rutgers University--Department of Mathematics
Topology/geometry seminar
organized by Steve Ferry, Xiao-chun Rong, Chris Woodward and Feng Luo.

The seminar is held weekly on Tuesday, 3:30-4:30 in Hill Center 705 .


Date	Speaker	Title/abstract

2/5	Sikimeti Mau, Rutgers	A moduli space of quilted disks, a polytope called the multiplihedron, and an $A_\infty$ functor in Lagrangian Floer theory

2/12	to be announced	To be announced

2/19	Eduardo Gonzalez, Rutgers	Gauged Gromov-Witten Invariants for Hamiltonian manifolds

2/26	Prof. Steve Ferry, Rutgers	Robot fingers and singularities of smooth maps

3/4	Dan Ramras, Stanford	Deformation K-theory and spaces of flat connections

3/11	Christian Zickert, Columbia Univ	The volume and Chern-Simons invariant of a hyperbolic manifold

3/18	No seminar	Spring Break

3/25	Prof. C. Teleman, Berkeley	Semisimple field theories

4/1	Dr. Pan Peng, Harvard	String duality and the integrality structure in Calabi-Yau geometry

4/8	Dr. Zhenghan Wang, Microsoft < /td>	Topological phases of matter: classification and application

4/11	Professor Jean-Marc Schlenker, University of Toulouse III	the rigidity of non-convex polyhedra Please note the special date and room: Friday, April 11, 2-3pm, at Hill 423.

4/15	Prof. Anna Wienhard, Princeton Univ. & IAS	Teichmueller-like components in the representation variety

4/22	Professor Hao Zheng, Zhong Shang University, China	Quiver varieties and quantum groups

4/29	Professor Zhi Lu, Fudan University, China	Topological types of 3-dimensional small covers

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