Differential Geometry Seminar - 2012

(Location: John Dedman, G35)

Tuesday January 19 10:00 - 11:30 Emanuel Huhnen-Venedey (Technische Universitat Berlin) The projective models of Plucker line geometry and Lie sphere geometry - from the basic notions to Lie's line-sphere correspondence
Tuesday January 24 10:00 - 11:00 Karin Melnick (University of Maryland) Essential Killing fields of parabolic geometries
Tuesday January 31 10:00 - 11:00 Karin Melnick (University of Maryland) Normal forms for conformal vector fields on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds
Tuesday February 7 10:00 - 11:00 Boris Kruglikov (University of Tromso) Symmetry analysis of non-integrable almost complex structures
Tuesday February 14 10:00 - 11:00 Brett Parker (ANU) Tropical curves and Gromov-Witten Invariants
Wednesday February 22 10:00 - 11:00 Snigdhayan Mahanta (University of Adelaide) Bivariant local cyclic homology and some applications
Wednesday February 29 10:00 - 11:00 Boris Kruglikov (University of Tromso) Sub-maximal symmetric models for geometric structures
Wednesday March 14 10:00 - 11:00 Xiaojun Huang (Rutgers University) CR links and complex singularities
Wednesday March 28 10:00 - 11:00 Wend Werner (Universitat Muenster) Infinite dimensional symmetric spaces
Wednesday April 4 10:00 - 11:00 Peter Bouwknegt (ANU) The AKSZ construction of the topological open p-brane action and Nambu brackets
TUESDAY April 17 10:00 - 11:00 Olga Rossi (University of Ostrava) Variational metric structures
THURSDAY April 26 1:00 - 2:00 Jesse Gell-Redman (ANU) Hodge cohomology of foliated boundary metrics
FRIDAY April 27 10:00 - 11:00 Dmitri Zaitsev (Trinity College Dublin) Rigidity of CR maps between Shilov boundaries and bounded symmetric domains
Wednesday May 2 10:00 - 11:00 Boris Kruglikov (University of Tromso) A tale of two G2
Wednesday May 23 10:00 - 11:00 John Huerta (ANU) G2 and the rolling ball
Wednesday June 6 11:00 - 12:00 Emma Howard (ANU) The Fundamental Group
Wednesday June 27 11:00 - 12:00 Travis Willse (ANU) 5-dimensional Heisenberg holonomy from special generic 2-plane fields on 5-manifolds
Wednesday July 4 11:00 - 12:00 Mike Eastwood (ANU) Homogeneous hypersurfaces
THURSDAY July 5 11:00 - 12:00 Dennis The (ANU) The gap phenomenon for parabolic geometries


DG Working Seminar - 2012

(Location: John Dedman, G35)

Wednesday January 25 10:00 - 11:30 Dennis The (ANU) Hasse diagrams and other representation-theoretic preliminaries
January 26 - NO SEMINAR (AUSTRALIA DAY)
Thursday February 2 10:00 - 11:30 Dennis The (ANU) Hasse diagrams and other representation-theoretic preliminaries - part 2
Wednesday February 8 10:00 - 11:30 Mike Eastwood (ANU) Invariant differential operators
Thursday February 16 10:00 - 11:30 Mike Eastwood (ANU) Invariant differential operators - part 2
Thursday February 23 10:00 - 11:30 Dennis The (ANU) Kostant's version of the Bott-Borel-Weil theorem
Thursday March 1 1:00 - 2:30 Mike Eastwood (ANU) Invariant differential operators - part 3
Thursday March 8 1:00 - 2:30 Mike Eastwood (ANU) Invariant differential operators - part 4
Thursday March 15 1:00 - 2:30 John Huerta (ANU) The Octonions (Baez's octonions paper is here; Errata)
WEDNESDAY March 21 10:00 - 11:00 Paul Leopardi (ANU) The Octonions - part 2 (spinors and triality)
Thursday March 22 1:00 - 2:30 Dennis The (ANU) The Octonions - part 3 (octonionic projective geometry)
Thursday March 29 1:00 - 2:30 Ravi Shroff (ANU) On Saito's characterization of quasihomogeneous isolated hypersurface singularities (Article (in German))
Thursday April 5 1:00 - 2:30 Ravi Shroff (ANU) On Saito's characterization of quasihomogeneous isolated hypersurface singularities - part 2
Thursday May 3 1:00 - 2:30 Travis Willse (ANU) The Octonions - part 4 (OP^2 and G2)
Thursday May 10 1:00 - 2:30 John Huerta (ANU) The Octonions - part 5 (F4)
Thursday May 17 1:00 - 2:30 John Huerta (ANU) The Octonions - part 6 (The magic square)
Thursday May 24 1:00 - 2:30 Travis Willse (ANU) Tanaka theory - part 1
Wednesday May 30 10:00 - 11:00 Travis Willse (ANU) Tanaka theory - part 2
Thursday May 31 1:00 - 2:30 Dennis The (ANU) Tanaka theory - part 3
FRIDAY June 1 12:30 - 14:00 Peter Vassiliou (University of Canberra) Symmetry and Darboux integrable systems
Thursday June 7 **11:00 - 12:30** Boris Kruglikov (University of Tromso) Tanaka theory - part 4
Thursday June 14 11:00 - 12:30 Peter Vassiliou (University of Canberra) Symmetry and Darboux integrable systems - part 2
WEDNESDAY June 20 11:00 - 12:30 Katharina Neusser (ANU) BGG sequences
Thursday June 21 ** 1:00 - 2:30 ** Peter Vassiliou (University of Canberra) Symmetry and Darboux integrable systems - part 3
TUESDAY June 26 11:00 - 12:30 Katharina Neusser (ANU) BGG sequences - part 2
Thursday June 28 11:00 - 12:30 Katja Sagerschnig (ANU) Weyl structures for parabolic geometries


Interested in giving talk? Please contact Dennis The (Dennis.The AT anu.edu.au)

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