University of Toronto's
Symplectic Geometry Seminar

upcoming conferences and announcements: symplectic geometry wiki

The symplectic geometry seminars are held Mondays 2:10--3:00 PM in BA 6183 , unless otherwise indicated.
Symplectic Lunches: We go for lunch on Mondays at 12:30pm before the seminars. We alternate between Sylvester's Café (16 Bancroft Ave), Thai Angels (285 College St W), and Simon Sushi (409 Spadina Avenue). Please join us!
If you would like to join our mailing list, or if you would like to give a talk, email Fabian Ziltener at fabian (at-sign) math (dot) toronto (dot) edu.


Date	Speaker	Title and abstract	Lunch venue
Jan 11	Dezhong Chen	Construction of conformally compact Einstein manifolds	the new Thai place
Jan 18	Matthias Franz	Homotopy Gerstenhaber algebras and toric topology	Simon Sushi
Jan 25	Doug Park	Geography of symplectic 4-manifolds	the new Thai place
Feb 1 after the talk the speaker will give an inofficial talk in BA6180	Joseph Johns	Lefschetz fibrations on cotagent bundles and Fukaya categories	Simon Sushi
Feb 8	Tatyana Foth	Varieties of complex Lie algebras	the new Thai place
Feb 15	Family Day, University closed
Feb 22	David Spivak	tba	tba
Mar 1	tba	tba	tba
Mar 8	tba	tba	tba
Mar 15	tba	tba	tba
Mar 22	Brendan McLellan	Eta-invariants and anomalies in U(1)-Chern-Simons theory	tba
Mar 29	Andrew Dancer	Ricci solitons	tba
end of the semester
Apr 19	Octav Cornea	tba	tba