Geometry and Physics Seminar Schedule

Fall 2017 - Spring 2018

Organizers: Lev Borisov (Math), Christopher Woodward (Math), Emanuel Diaconescu (NHETC)

Day	Title	Speaker	Speaker's Host.
Sept. 21	Cohomological Hall Algebra of a Curve	Francesco Sala (IPMU)	Emanuel Diaconescu
Sept. 28	Symplectic geometry of $\ol{M}_{0,n}$.	Christopher Woodward
Oct. 5	Exceptional collections in equivariant derived categories of smooth toric varieties	Lev Borisov
Oct. 26	Hitchin systems in terms of Calabi-Yau threefolds	Florian Beck	Emanuel Diaconescu
Nov. 13	Calabi-Yau Manifolds, Mirrors, and Moduli	Charles Doran (University of Alberta)	Emanuel Diaconescu
Nov. 20	Motivic classes for moduli of Higgs bundles and moduli of connections on a curve	Alexander Soibelman (University of Southern California)	Emanuel Diaconescu
TBA	TBA	Guangbo Xu	Christopher Woodward
Feb. 8	Nested Hilbert schemes, local Donaldson-Thomas theory, and Vafa-Witten / Seiberg-Witten correspondence	Artan Sheshmani (Harvard)	Emanuel Diaconescu
Feb. 22	Geometry and Physics of Double Affine Hecke Algebra	Satoshi Nawata	Emanuel Diaconescu
March 1	Symmetries of Hamiltonian actions of reductive groups and of supersymmetric gauge theories	David Ben-Zvi	Christopher Woodward
March 15	No Talk. Spring break.
May 3.	Witten conjecture for Mumford's kappa classes	Renzo Cavalieri	Nicola Tarasca

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