The University of Minnesota Mathematical Physics
Seminar
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| April 4 | Alexander Voronov
University of Minnesota |
Morse theoretic viewpoint on string topology |
| April 11 | Alexander Voronov
University of Minnesota |
Morse theoretic viewpoint on string topology, part II: relation to Gromov-Witten |
| April 17, VinH 203A
Monday, 3:30-4:30pm |
Andrey Lazarev
University of Bristol, UK |
Homotopy algebras and topological field theories (joint meeting with the Topology Seminar) |
| April 18 | Scott Wilson
University of Minnesota |
Supersymmetric homotopy algebra |
| April 24, VinH 203A
Monday, 3:30-4:30pm |
Javier Zuniga
University of Minnesota |
Quantum master equation of open-closed string theory (joint meeting with the Topology Seminar) |
| May 1, VinH 203A
Monday, 3:30-4:30pm |
Mark Feshbach
University of Minnesota |
Towards Batanin's definition of n-categories (joint meeting with the Topology Seminar) |
| May 2 | Mark Feshbach
University of Minnesota |
Trees, operads and n-categories |
| May 9, VinH 16
3:30-4:30pm |
Michael Batanin
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia |
Recognition of n-fold loop spaces and n-categories (joint meeting with the Special Colloquium) |
| January 23, VinH 16 Thursday, 3:30-4:30 |
David Ben-Zvi University of Chicago |
Solitons and many-body systems in algebraic geometry
(Colloquium talk) |
| February 5 | Ernie Kalnins
University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand |
Coulomb-oscillator duality in spaces of constant curvature |
| February 12 | Ernie Kalnins
University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand |
Classical and quantum constants of the motion (explicit techniques) |
| February 17, VinH 364 Monday, 3:30-4:30 |
Ezra Getzler
Northwestern University |
Relations in the homology of Deligne-Mumford moduli spaces of stable curves and homology of nilpotent Lie algebras (joint meeting with CommAlg/AlgGeom Seminar) |
| February 19 | Alexander Turbiner
Instituto de Fisica, UNAM, Mexico, and ITEP, Moscow |
Exact-solvability of rational-trigonometric Olshanetsky-Perelomov Hamiltonians |
| February 26 | Will not meet this week | Will not meet this week |
| March 5 | Yong-Geun Oh
University of Wisconsin, Madison |
Geometry of coisotropic D-branes and their Floer homology |
| March 12 | Will not meet this week | Will not meet this week |
| March 19 | Spring Break | Spring Break |
| March 26 | Wee Liang Gan
University of Chicago |
Koszul duality for dioperads |
| April 2 | Will not meet this week | Will not meet this week |
| April 9 | Will not meet this week | Will not meet this week |
| April 16 | Will not meet this week | Will not meet this week |
| April 23 | Will not meet this week | Will not meet this week |
| April 30 | Will not meet this week | Will not meet this week |
| May 7 | Martin Markl
Mathematical Institute of the Academy, Prague |
Strongly homotopy bialgebras |
| January 30, VinH 364
Wednesday, 3:30-4:30 pm |
Alexander Voronov
(The U) |
Brane Topology |
| February 8, VinH 207
Friday, 3:35-4:30pm |
Jean-Louis Loday
(CNRS et Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg) |
A duality between standard simplices and Stasheff polytopes |
| February 13, VinH 364
Wednesday, 4:30-5:30pm |
Nathalie Wahl
(Northwestern) |
Infinite loop space structure(s) on the stable mapping class group |
| February 20, VinH 364
Wednesday, 3:30-4:30pm |
Alexander Voronov
(The U) |
Deformation theory after Kontsevich and Soibelman |
| February 26, VinH 211
Tuesday, 4:30-5:30pm |
Michael Penkava
(Wisconsin, Eau Claire) |
Ribbon graphs and Riemann surfaces defined over Q-bar |
| March 6
Wednesday, 3:30-4:30pm |
Nicole Snashall
(Leicester) |
Hochschild cohomology of finite dimensional algebras |
| March 13
Wednesday, 3:30-4:30pm |
Po Hu
(Chicago) |
A generalization of Chas-Sullivan-Cohen-Jones' string topology theorem |
| March 20
Wednesday, 3:30-4:30pm |
Spring Break | Spring Break |
| March 27
Wednesday, 3:30-4:30pm |
Conan Leung
(The U) |
An intersection theory of cycles in G_2 manifolds |
| April 3
Wednesday, 3:30-4:30pm |
Peter Symonds
(UMIST) |
The module structure of a group action on a polynomial ring |
| April 10
Wednesday, 3:30-4:30pm |
Will not meet this week: | Stasheff's Colloquium Thursday |
| April 17
Wednesday, 3:30-4:30pm |
Will not meet this week | Will not meet this week |
| April 24
Wednesday, 3:30-4:30pm |
Mikhail Kapranov
(University of Toronto) |
Riemann-Roch theorems for determinantal gerbes and differentiable manifolds |
| May 1
Wednesday, 3:30-4:30pm |
Ernesto Lupercio
(Wisconsin, Madison) |
Orbifolds, gerbes, and motivic integration |
| May 8
Wednesday, 3:30-4:30pm |
Sheldon Katz
(Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) |
D-branes and geometric moduli |