This seminar is held on Tuesdays at 11am in 210 Deady.

Winter Quarter, 2008

• January 10 – Ismar Volic – Wellesley College.
  Rational formality of embedding spaces.
  Note special day, time and place (3pm in Deady 208).
  Volic will give a Basic Notions seminar on formality of configuration spaces and Kontsevich integration following this talk.
• January 17 – Ryan Budney – University of Victoria.
  Which 3-manifolds admit smooth embeddings in R⁴?
  Note special day, time and place (4pm in Deady 208).
• January 22 – No seminar.
• January 29 – Dan Dugger – University of Oregon.
  Elliptic cohomology and derived algebraic geometry.
• February 5 – Arkady Vaintrob – University of Oregon.
  Teichmuller spaces and orbifolds.
• February 12 – No seminar this week.
• February 19 – Dev Sinha – University of Oregon.
  Graph cohomology and natural differential operators.
• February 26 – Sergey Yuzvinsky – University of Oregon.
  Formality of arrangement complements and combinatorics.
• March 4 – No seminar.
• March 11 – Chad Giusti – University of Oregon.
  Towards a new combinatorial model for knot theory.

Previous quarters: F07 S07 W07 F06 F05-S06 F04-S05 F03-S04 F02-S03 F00-S01 F99-S00 F98-S99 F97-S98