Felix Klein Seminar – Spring  2006, Thursdays, 2:00-3:00 pm, 258 Hurley.

 

 

February 16: Sergei Starchenko, University of Notre Dame: Introduction to Geometric-Analytic categories. A model theoretic approach.

 

 

March 2: Igor Belegradek, Georgia Tech: Towards negatively curved  manifolds  from another Universe

 

March 9: Casim Abbas, Michigan State University:   A new approach to the Weinstein conjecture in dimension  three.

 

March 16: Spring Break

 

March 23: William Kirwin, University of Notre Dame:  Quantization and symplectic reduction do not commute

 

 

April 6: Jens von Bergmann,  University of Calgary:  Folded holomorphic maps

 

April 13:  Pascal Hubert, Marseille:   On the Veech dichotomy

 

April 20: Matt Gursky, University of Notre Dame:   Conformal invariants associated to a measure.

 

April 27: Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame:  A new proof of the Gromoll-Grove rigidity theorem.

 

May 11: Seonhee Lim, Yale  University:  Counting overlattices in automorphism groups of trees and buildings