September 14: Giuseppe Tinaglia, University of Notre Dame

Structure theorems for disks embedded in R^3

 

 

September 28: Laura de Marco, University of Chicago

Trees and dynamics of polynomials

 

October 5: Xiaodong Wang, Michigan State University

An isoperimetric problem in conformal geometry.

 

October 12: Inanc Refik Baykur, Michigan State University

Generalizations of symplectic structures on smooth 4-manifolds

 

October 26:  Paul Kirk, Indiana University

Remarks on the geography problem for 4-manifolds

 

November 2:  Dr. S.G. Rajeev,  U.of Rochester, NY

Stochastic geometry in hydrodynamics

 

 

November 9: Bill Meeks, U. Massachusetts  at Amhrest

The theory behind some recent results in classical minimal surfaces

 

 

November 16:   Katrin Wehrheim, MIT

Instanton Floer homology with Lagrangian boundary conditions

 

November 30: Matthias Weber, Indiana University

From Hermite Polynomials to Helicoidal Minimal Surfaces

 

December 7:  Jean-Francois Lafont, Ohio State University
Gromov’s simplicial volume conjecture