Felix Klein Geometry Seminar. Spring2004 Room 129 Healey, Thursdays 2:00-3:00 pm.

Ø January 29: Alexander Ivrii, Universite du Quebec a Montreal

On Lagrangian surfaces in symplectic 4-manifolds

Ø February 5: Liviu I. Nicolaescu, University of Notre dame

”Motivic” tomography

Ø February 10: Bruce Kleiner, University of Michigan

Perelman’s work on Ricci flow (This is a two hour seminar!)

Ø February 19: Eugene Lerman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne

Contact toric manifolds

February 26: Linus Kramer, Wuerzburg University, Germany

Lie groups from afar

Ø March 4: Mircea Mustata, Harvard University

The ubiquity of the log canonical threshold (Two hour seminar)

Ø March 11: Mid Semester Break

Ø March 18: Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame

A new Liouville type theorem on pseudoconcave domains and applications

Ø March 25:

Ø April 1: Jiaping Wang, University of Minnesota

Manifolds with positive spectrum

Ø April 8: Easter Break

Ø April 15: Ciprian Manolescu, Harvard University,

A spectrum valued TQFT from the Seiberg-Witten equation

Ø April 22: Mark Pollicott, University of Manchester

Pair correlations for closed geodesics on surfaces

Ø April 29