Algebra-Geometry-Topology Seminar 2009

Organisers:

Arun Ram

Stephan Tillmann

Talks in February

Thursday, 5 February, 14:30-16:00, JH Michell Theatre

Benedict Gross (Harvard): Algebraic modular forms

Friday, 6 February, 10:30-12:00, JH Michell Theatre

Daniel Delbourgo (Monash): Weight pairings on elliptic curves

Friday, 6 February, 14:30-16:00, JH Michell Theatre

Jim Borger (ANU): Witt vectors, Lambda-rings, and absolute algebraic geometry

Tuesday, 10 February, 14:30-16:00, JH Michell Theatre

Benedict Gross (Harvard): Integral zeta values and the number of automorphic representations

Wednesday, 11 February, 14:30-16:00, Room 107

Benedict Gross (Harvard): Discriminants and Root Discriminants

Thursday, 19 February, 14:30-16:00, Room 213

Greg Hjorth (Melbourne/UCLA): Gaboriau's work on the theory of cost, I

Monday, 23 February, 14:00-15:00, Level 5 conference room, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Building 193

Konrad Swanepoel (Chemnitz): Geometric methods in Combinatorics, Optimisation and Computer Science

Tuesday, 24 February, 14:30-16:00, Russell Love Theatre

Greg Hjorth (Melbourne/UCLA): Gaboriau's work on the theory of cost, II

Thursday, 26 February, 15:30-17:00, Russell Love Theatre

Stephen Bigelow (UCSB): The Alexander polynomial of knots and tangles

Semester 1, 2009

Monday, 2 March, 14:15-16:15, David Caro Building, Room 211

Chris Goddard (Melbourne): Various topics in discrete and comparison geometry

Monday, 9 March, 14:15-16:15, David Caro Building, Room 211

Peter Tingley (Melbourne): Quantum groups, braidings and crystals

Monday, 16 March, 14:15-16:15, David Caro Building, Room 211

Mutsuo Oka (Tokyo University of Science): On mixed singularities and their Milnor fibrations

Monday, 23 March, 14:15-16:15, David Caro Building, Room 211

Tarje Bargheer Arklint (Copenhagen): Higher dimensional String topology via operads

Monday, 30 March, 14:15-16:15, David Caro Building, Room 211

Jeremie Guilhot (Sydney): Semicontinuity properties of Kazhdan-Lusztig cells in affine Weyl groups of rank 2

Monday, 6 April, 14:15-16:15, David Caro Building, Room 211

Daniel Chan (UNSW): Non-commutative projective geometry

Tuesday, 7 April, 12:00-13:00, Russell Love Theatre (Colloquium)

Peter Trapa (Utah): Unitary representations of real Lie groups

Monday, 13 April, 14:15-16:15, David Caro Building, Room 211

Easter Break

Monday, 20 April, 14:15-16:15, David Caro Building, Room 211

Peter Trapa (Utah): Functors for representations of GL(n,F)

Monday, 27 April, 14:15-16:15, David Caro Building, Room 211

Steve Rosenberg (Boston University): Chern-Simons classes on loop spaces and diffeomorphism groups

Monday, 4 May, 14:15-16:15, David Caro Building, Room 211

Emily Peters (Berkeley): Constructing the extended Haagerup planar algebra

Monday, 11 May, 14:15-16:15, David Caro Building, Room 211

Makoto Ozawa (Komazawa University): Essential surfaces derived from knot and link diagrams

Monday, 18 May, 14:15-16:15, David Caro Building, Room 211

Suhyoung Choi (KAIST): Real projective structures on 3-orbifolds and projective invariants

Monday, 25 May, 14:15-16:15, David Caro Building, Room 211

Hyam Rubinstein (Melbourne): Multi parameter width of knots and links

Talks in June

Tuesday, 2 June, 14:15-16:15, Russell Love Theatre

Lisa Carbone (Rutgers University): Hyperbolic Kac-Moody symmetry, actions on buildings and applications

Tuesday, 9 June, 14:15-16:15, Russell Love Theatre

Gye-Seon Lee (KAIST): Deformations of Hyperbolic Coxeter Orbifolds

Tuesday, 16 June, 14:15-16:15, Russell Love Theatre

Lawrence Reeves (Melbourne): Curvature in Group Theory

Monday, 22 June, 14:00-15:30, Room 213

Chris Hays (Michigan State University): Gauge invariants of homology S^3 x S^1s

Monday, 22 June, 15:30-17:00, Room 213

Rajesh Kulkarni (Michigan State University): Self dual perverse sheaves on certain unitary Shimura varieties

Conformal Field Theory Working Group

Organiser:

Nora Ganter

Coordinates:

Thursdays, 14:15-16:15

Chemical Engineering Building, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Theatre

Web page

Dates:

05.03, 12.03, 19.03, 26.03, 02.04, 09.04, 16.04, 23.04, 30.04, 07.05, 14.05, 21.05, 28.05