| September 8: |
Rigidity of nonpositively curved spaces |
| Werner Ballmann (University of Bonn) |
| September 15: |
The topology and dynamics of moduli spaces. |
| William Goldman (University of Maryland) |
| September 22: |
The topology and dynamics of moduli spaces |
| William Goldman (University of Maryland) |
| September 29: |
Spectral Limits of Hyperbolic Surfaces |
| Chris Judge (University of Indiana (Bloomington)) |
| October 6: |
Gauge theories, TGFT's, and the braid groups |
| Elmar Winkelnkemper ( University of Maryland) |
| October 13: |
Cohomology pairings on the symplectic reductions of products of manifolds |
| Rebecca Goldin (MIT) |
| October 20: |
Homogeneous manifolds of positive curvature |
| Uwe Abrecht (Bochum) |
| October 22: |
On the geodesic flow on surfaces of nonpositive curvature Joint with Dynamics |
| Michael Brin (University of Maryland), mib@math.umd.edu |
| October 27: |
Matroids |
| Ed Swartz (University of Maryland) |
| November 3: |
Matroids and linear quotients of spheres |
| Ed Swartz (University of Maryland) |
| November 10: |
The wave equation on Riemannian manifolds (small time) Introduction for Zelditch's talk. |
| Matei Machedon (University of Maryland) |
| November 17: |
The wave-trace formula |
| Steve Zelditch (The Johns Hopkins University) |
| November 24: |
Automorphisms of moduli spaces |
| William Goldman (University of Maryland) |
| December 1: |
Ricci curvature,diameter growth and the fundamental group |
| Christina Sormani (University of Pennsylvania) |
| February 2: |
Connes fusion and the Verlinde rules for the loop groups of type BCD |
| Valerio Toledano (University of Paris) |
| February 9: |
Representations of fundamental groups of manifolds with rank one transformation group |
| Yehuda Shalom (Princeton University) |
| February 16: |
Four manifolds and gauge theory |
| Peter Oszvath (Princeton University) |
| February 23: |
Using bending energy to drive a sphere eversion |
| John Sullivan (University of Illinois (Champagne-Urbana)) |
| March 2: |
Collapsing and noncollapsing with positive curvature |
| Xiaochun Rong (Rutgers University) |
| March 9: |
Applications of affine differential geometry to real projective
structures on surfaces |
| John Loftin (Harvard University) |
| March 11: |
Quasi-isometric and bi-Lipschitz equivalence joint with dynamical systems |
| Dimitri Burago (Pehn State University) |
| March 16: |
Limits of squares of eigenfunctions and geodesic flow invariant measures |
| Scott Wolpert (University of Maryland) |
| March 29: |
Curvature and symmetry of the Milnor spheres |
| Karsten Grove (University of Maryland) |
| April 5: |
Integrable systems, polytopes and tensor products (a preparatory
lecture for Allen Knutson's lecture on April 19) |
| John Millson (University of Maryland) |
| April 9: |
The closing lemma for geodesics in quotients of Euclidean buildings Special seminar on Friday at 1:00-2:00 in 1308 |
| Werner Ballman (University of Bonn and U. Penn) |
| April 12: |
Vanishing theorems on non-Kaehler manifolds |
| Stefan Ivanov (University of Sofia) |
| April 19: |
Sums of hermitian matrices and honeycombs |
| Allen Knutson (MIT) |
| May 3: |
The Bass conjecture and group von Neumann algebras |
| James Schafer (University of Maryland) |
| May 10: |
Geometrization of three manifolds in the hyperbolic case |
| Michael Kapovich (University of Utah) |
| May 17: |
Contact homology for Legendrian tangles Note the different time, 3:00 |
| Lisa Traynor (Bryn Mawr University) |
