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.