UCSD Topology/Geometry Seminars, Spring 2003
UCSD Topology/Geometry Seminars, Spring 2003
Math 292A, Spring 2003, Fridays 4:00-5:30 in room 7218.
Organisers: Justin Roberts, Peter Teichner
April 4: Denis Auroux (Ecole Polytechnique) Singular plane
curves and symplectic 4-manifolds
April 11: Anna Grinberg (UCSD)
Introduction to stratifolds
April 18: Anna Grinberg (UCSD) Stratifold structure on
Mather's abstract pre-stratified spaces
April 25: Chuck Doran (Columbia) Integral Structures and Mirror
Symmetry
May 2: Hal Schenck Hyperplane arrangement cohomology,
resonance varieties, and the Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand
correspondance
May 9: Antony Wassermann (Luminy) Operator algebras and loop group
representations
June 6: Taehee Kim (Bloomington) New obstructions to doubly
slicing knots
June 13: Stefan Klaus (MFI, Oberwolfach) The Chern-Hirzebruch-Serre Theorem mod 8
justin@math.ucsd.edu
Image of (-2,3,-5) pretzel knot from Rob Scharein's
KnotPlot Site.
