Geometric Stability in Differential Geometry

Graduate Student Seminar

MIT, Spring 2006

(archive: Fall 2005)






Date: Wednesdays at 4:30pm.
Room: 2-139.


  • February 8
    Jake Solomon
    The GIT quotient       Abstract
  • February 15
    Jake Solomon
    The GIT quotient and the symplectic quotient, I       Abstract
  • February 22
    Jake Solomon
    The GIT quotient and the symplectic quotient, II       Abstract
  • March 1
    Jake Solomon
    The GIT quotient and the symplectic quotient, III       Abstract
  • March 8
    Yanir Rubinstein
    Moduli of almost-complex structures on symplectic manifolds       Abstract
  • March 15
    Valentino Tosatti
    Scalar Curvature and Projective Embeddings       Abstract
  • March 22
    Valentino Tosatti
    Scalar Curvature and Projective Embeddings (continued)       Abstract
  • March 29
    Spring Vacation - no meeting
  • April 3, Monday 4:30pm, 2-146
    Valentino Tosatti
    Scalar Curvature and Projective Embeddings (continued)       Abstract
  • April 10, Monday 5:00pm, 2-146
    Valentino Tosatti
    Scalar Curvature and Projective Embeddings (continued)       Abstract
  • April 18
    Passover - no meeting
  • April 26
    Katrin Wehrheim
    Uhlenbeck Compactness       Abstract
  • May 3
    Zhang Zhou
    Kahler-Einstein metrics of positive scalar curvature       Abstract
  • May 10
    Valentino Tosatti
    Various notions of stability and constant scalar curvature Kahler metrics, I       Abstract
  • May 17
    Valentino Tosatti
    Various notions of stability and constant scalar curvature Kahler metrics, II       Abstract
  • May 22, Monday 4:30pm, 2-255
    Yanir Rubinstein
    Some examples concerning stability of Kahler manifolds       Abstract

Topics to include:

General moment map picture for stability in the Yang-Mills, Kahler and Special Lagrangians settings.

Related geometric flows.

Stability notions in Kahler geometry.

Related topics (suggestions welcome).


For any questions please email: Yanir Rubinstein , Jake Solomon .