Differential Geometry Seminar - 2013 (first half)

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Fri Jan 25 2:00 - 3:00 Jan Slovak (Masaryk University) Schwachhoeffer's construction and its consequences
Tue Jan 29 11:30 - 12:30 Lashi Bandara (ANU) Square roots of perturbed subelliptic operators on Lie groups
Tue Feb 5 11:30 - 12:30 Mat Langford (ANU) A proof of the Lawson Conjecture
WED Mar 13 11:00 - 12:00 Vladimir Matveev (Jena) Obata-Tanno equation and parallel objects for cone structures
Wed Mar 20 11:00 - 12:00 Konrad Schoebel Separation of Variables and Moduli Spaces of Stable Curves
Wed Mar 27 11:00 - 12:00 David Calderbank (University of Bath) What is... a parabolic building?
Fri May 24 13:30 - 14:30 Igor Zelenko (Texas A&M) Wilczynski type invariants in the geometry of distributions
Tues May 28 10:00 - 11:00 Matthew Randall (ANU) Local obstructions to projective surfaces admitting skew-symmetric Ricci tensor
Wed May 29 11:00 - 12:00 Amitesh Datta (ANU) The Classification of Symplectic Toric Manifolds
Tue July 9 12:00 - 13:00 Travis Willse (ANU) Doubrov and Govorov's exceptional (2, 3, 5)-distribution
Tue Oct 15 TBA Mike Eastwood (ANU) TBA (in algebra/topology seminar)
Tue Oct 17 TBA Pawel Nurowski (Warsaw) TBA - alumni talk on space mission design

DG Working Seminar - 2013 (first half)

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Our first topic in this semester's working seminar will focus on H-projective geometry and related background from projective geometry and Kahler geometry.

Wed Jan 30 11:00 - 12:30 Mike Eastwood (ANU) Projective structures and mobility
Wed Feb 6 11:00 - 12:30 Katharina Neusser (ANU) H-projective geometry - part 3
Wed Feb 13 11:00 - 12:30 Katharina Neusser (ANU) H-projective geometry - part 4
Wed Feb 20 11:00 - 12:30 Mike Eastwood (ANU) H-projective geometry - part 5
FRI Feb 22 1:30 - 2:30 Mike Eastwood (ANU) H-projective geometry - part 6
FRI Mar 1 1:00 - 2:30 Katharina Neusser (ANU) H-projective geometry - part 7

Workshop on H-projective geometry: Mar 22 - 25 @ Kioloa

Our second topic this semester will be on "prolongation".

Tue May 7 12:00 - 1:30 Mike Eastwood (ANU) Prolongation 101
Tue May 14 12:00 - 1:30 Dennis The (ANU) On a new normalization for tractor covariant derivatives
Tue May 21 12:00 - 1:30 Travis Willse (ANU) On a new normalization for tractor covariant derivatives - part 2


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

DG seminars archive: 2011, 2012 (January-July) 2012 (Oct-Dec)