Geometry-Topology Seminar Schedule

Location: Math 1313
Time: 3:00 PM
Day: Monday
Organizer: Richard Wentworth

2008-2009 Schedule

September 8:	“Say X × A1 = An. Please solve for X” ... and related questions
	Brent Doran (University of Oxford)
September 15:	Moduli spaces of flat bundles over nonorientable surfaces
	Tom Baird (University of Toronto)
September 22:	Chow stability of ruled manifolds
	Reza Seyyedali (Johns Hopkins University)
September 29:	No seminar because of Rosh Hashanah
October 6:	The topology of the moduli of free group representations
	Sean Lawton (UMCP)
October 13:	No seminar because of faculty meeting
October 20:	No seminar because of faculty meeting
October 27:	Decomposable representations of surface groups
	Florent Schaffhauser (Keio University)
November 3:	The geometry and algebra of palindromes and PSL(2,C) discreteness criteria
	Jane Gilman (Rutgers and NSF)
November 10:	Topology of deformation spaces of Kleinian groups
	Aaron Magid (Michigan)
November 17:	Harmonic maps between singular spaces
	Georgios Daskalopoulos (Brown University)
November 24:	No seminar
December 1:	Non-Abelian Hodge theory and quaternionic rigidity for complex hyperbolic lattices
	Bruno Klingler (Jussieu & IAS)
December 8:	Topological problems connected with T-duality in string theory
	Jonathan Rosenberg (UMCP)
December 10:	The energy functional on Teichmüller space Special Seminar
	Francois Labourie (Orsay)
December 15:	Bending Fuchsian representations of fundamental groups of punctured surfaces in PU(2,1) Note change of time: 4PM
	Pierre Will (Grenoble)
February 2:	Connected Components of Maximal Representations
	Olivier Guichard (Orsay & IAS)
February 9:	1-D Schrödinger map flow
	Yanir Rubinstein (Johns Hopkins University)
February 16:	No seminar: Department Review
February 23:	No seminar: Provost meeting
March 2:	Canceled due to weather
March 9:	Determinants of Laplacians as functions on spaces of Riemannian metrics
	Young-Heon Kim (IAS)
March 16:	No seminar: Spring Break
March 23:	Domains of discontinuity for Anosov representations
	Anna Wienhard (Princeton)
March 30:	No seminar
April 13:	Variational principles on polyhedral surfaces
	Feng Luo (Rutgers)
April 20:	Character varieties of a family of 2-bridge knot complements
	Melissa Macasieb (UMCP)
April 30:	Full Orbifold K-theory of Abelian Symplectic Quotients Note change of time and place: 4PM, Room 1308
	Rebecca Goldin (George Mason)
May 4:	String scattering amplitudes and modular forms
	Samuel Grushevsky (Princeton University)
May 11:	Marked Length Spectra and Strictly Convex Projective Orbifolds
	Kelly Delp (SUNY-Buffalo)
June 19:	Higher Topological Structures and their Geometry Note special time: 11AM
	Hisham Sati (Yale University)
July 15:	Introduction to Geometrization of 3-manifolds via Ricci flow Note special day, time and room, 2PM in 3206
	Andy Sanders (UMCP)

Last Year's Schedule