Gauge Theory / Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Gauge theory / Symplectic geometry

Spring 2007


Columbia's gauge theory/symplectic geometry seminar meets regularly on Fridays in Math 507, at 2:30pm.

Jan 26 Peter Ozsváth (Columbia) On knot Floer homology
Feb 2 Swatee Naik (University of Nevada at Reno) Order in the concordance group
Feb 9 Eli Grigsby (Columbia) Knot concordance and Heegaard Floer homology invariants of branched covers
Feb 16 Joel Kamnitzer (UC Berkeley) Knot homology via derived categories of coherent sheaves
Feb 23 Lenny Ng (Duke / Princeton) Transverse knots and Heegaard Floer homology
March 2 Richard Thomas (Imperial / Columbia) Simultaneous resolutions, mirror symmetry, braid groups, etc.
March 9 Tim Perutz (Cambridge) Fibered three-manifolds and the Floer homology of fibered Dehn twists
March 16 No seminar: spring break
March 23 (* 4pm, room 520) Joint NY symplectic geometry seminar at Columbia: Katrin Wehrheim (MIT) A symplectic category featuring Lagrangian correspondences and holomorphic quilts
March 23 (* 5pm, room 520) Joint NY symplectic geometry seminar at Columbia: John Etnyre (Georgia Tech) The space of plane fields on a 3-manifold
March 29 (*Thursday, 2:30 pm, room 507) Anton Kapustin (Caltech) N=2 gauge theories, generalized Higgs bundles, and S-duality
April 6 Nadya Shirokova (Stanford) On the classification of Floer-type theories
April 13 No seminar: joint NY symplectic geometry seminar at Courant
April 20 Joel Fish (NYU) Think global, act local - a new approach to Gromov compactness for pseudo-holomorphic curves
April 27 Ronald Fintushel (Michigan State) Reverse engineering families of 4-manifolds
May 4 No seminar: joint NY symplectic geometry seminar at Stony Brook
Organizers: M. Khovanov, C. Manolescu, P. S. Ozsváth

Past seminars: Fall 2006 .

Other seminars of interest:

  • Courant Symplectic Geometry Seminar
  • Symplectic Geometry Seminar at Stony Brook
  • Topology Seminar at Princeton

    Conferences in the area:
  • Workshop on Homological Mirror Symmetry and Applications at IAS, January 22-26