NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT
 
Geometry-Algebra-Singularities-Combinatorics 
Seminar

Winter 1999


Date Speaker Title
January 11 Alexander Polishchuk 
(Harvard University) 		Homological mirror symmetry 
January 19 Lê Dung Tráng
(Université de Provence) 		Pencils of curves on normal surface singularities 
January 25 Bernard Teissier  
(École Normale Supérieure) 		Valuation theory and toric geometry 
January 29 Frank Sottile 
(University of Wisconsin) 		Real Schubert calculus 
February 1 Mark Goresky 
(Northeastern and IAS) 		Topology and the trace formula 
February 4 Sorin Popescu 
(Columbia University and MSRI) 		Theta functions, polytopes and abelian surfaces 
February 9 Mark DeCataldo 
(Harvard University) 		The Decomposition Theorem: Hilbert schemes and Heisenberg algebras
February 10 Cristian Lenart 
(Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik) 		Combinatorial aspects of the cohomology and K-theory of flag varieties 
February 11 Maxim Braverman 
(Ohio State University) 		On the number of faces of a centrally symmetric rational polytope 
February 23 Marina Ville 
(École Polytechnique) 		Differential geometry of minimal surfaces in 4-manifolds
March 1 Razvan Gelca 
(University of Michigan) 		Skein modules and noncommutative geometry
March 8 Ilia Itenberg 
(Institut Mathématique de Rennes) 		Combinatorial patchworking of maximal real algebraic varieties

The Seminar is usually held on Mondays, from 1:30 to 2:30 pm, in 509 Lake Hall.
For the announcement of a talk, click on the corresponding title.

Seminar organizers

Tony Iarrobino
iarrobin@neu.edu
Alex Suciu
alexsuciu@neu.edu
Andrei Zelevinsky
andrei@neu.edu

Past and Present Seminars

Spring 1998  |   Fall 1998  |   Current seminar

Math Seminars Web page:  Alexandru I. Suciu Started: April 22, 1998.  Last modified: Sept. 20, 1999
Math Department Comments to:  alexsuciu@neu.edu URL: http://www.math.neu.edu/~suciu/GASC_w99.html