University of Toronto's Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Fall 2002

Spring 2003



The symplectic geometry seminars are held Mondays 2:10 -- 4 in Room SS5017A.
Jan. 13
Special Dept's Colloquium
Grisha Mikhalkin
Utah
Toric surfaces, Gromov-Witten invariants and tropical algebraic geometry
Jan. 20
3:10 pm
Henrique Bursztyn
Toronto
Moment maps and (pre)symplectic groupoids
Jan. 27
3:10 pm
Henrique Bursztyn
Toronto
Moment maps and (pre)symplectic groupoids II
Feb. 3
3:10 pm
Lisa Jeffrey
Toronto
Cohomology rings of symplectic reduced spaces: the residue formula and the Tolman-Weitsman theorem
Feb. 10
Liviu Mare
Toronto
Cohomology rings of symplectic reduced spaces: the residue formula and the Tolman-Weitsman theorem (II)
Feb. 17
No meeting
Reading Week
Feb. 24
No meeting
No meeting
March 3
Marina Ville
Boston
Branch points and Milnor numbers of surfaces in 4-manifolds
March 10
Nan-Kuo Ho
Toronto
Connected components of moduli spaces of flat connections over compact nonorientable surfaces.
March 17
Patrick Iglesias
Lyon
The moment map for diffeology
March 24
Eckhard Meinrenken
Toronto
Chern-Weil constructions in Lie theory
March 31
Dror Bar-Natan
Toronto
The Harish-Chandra-Duflo Isomorphism is as Easy as 1+1=2
April 7
Gideon Maschler
Toronto
Kahler metrics via symplectic methods


(*) to be confirmed, (**) on hold

If you would like to join our mailing list, or if you would like to give a talk, email Henrique Bursztyn at henrique@math.toronto.edu