UO Math Dept Geometry-Topology Seminar

University of Oregon Topology-Geometry Seminar, Winter 2001

Date	Speaker	Title
January 16, 2001	Dan Knopf University of Wisconsin	New Harnack inequalities for the Ricci flow via the spacetime approach.
January 23, 2001	No seminar this week.	Discussion of next year's graduate course offerings at seminar time.
January 30, 2001	Peter Gilkey	Manifolds and algebraic curvature tensors whose Jacobi operator has constant Jordan normal form
February 6, 2001	Kim Elce	Connected bicommutative Hopf algebras and Dieudonné modules
February 13, 2001	Travis Kelm	Asphericity Tests, Equations over Groups, and Car Crashes
February 20, 2001	Arkady Vaintrob	Knot Homology
February 27, 2001	Gregor Masbaum Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu	Matrix-Tree Theorems and the Alexander-Conway Polynomial
Note TWO seminars on March 6
March 6, 2001	Dmitri Vassilevich Universität Leipzig	Transmittal boundary conditions
March 6, 2001, 1pm	Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska Boise State University	The Yang-Mills measure in the Kauffman bracket skein module
March 13, 2001	Lew Ward	Topological Recreations: Long Lines and Related Exotica
March 20, 2001	Raina Ivanova University of Tsukuba	The Geometry of the Jacobi Operator

University of Oregon Topology-Geometry Seminar, Spring 2001

Date	Speaker	Title
April 5, 2001	Thomas SchickUniversity of Münster	Atiyah's L2-Betti numbers: properties and applications
April 10, 2001	No seminar.
April 17, 2001	Hal Sadofsky	Inverse limits of comodules over the dual Steenrod Algebra
April 19, 2001, 1pm	Harish Seshadri SUNY Stony Brook	Einstein 4-manifolds with circle actions
April 24, 2001	Eugene Lerman MSRI (University of Illinois)	The topological structure of contact and symplectic quotients
Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar: April 28-29
May 1, 2001	Michiel van den Berg University of Bristol	Spectrum of the Dirichlet Laplace operator on some unbounded domains
May 8, 2001	Christine Escher Oregon State University	Classifying families of seven manifolds
May 15, 2001	Mike Dyer
Cascade Topology Seminar: May 19-20, Boise
May 22, 2001	Inga Johnson
May 29, 2001
June 5, 2001

University of Oregon Topology-Geometry Seminar, Fall 2000

Date	Speaker	Title
September 26, 2000	No seminar.
October 3, 2000	Hal Sadofsky	Divisible families in homotopy groups and the Chromatic Splitting Conjecture.
October 10, 2000	John Corvino Brown University	Some Analytic Aspects of Scalar Curvature Deformation and Gluing
October 17, 2000	Jackie Jensen
October 24, 2000	Boris Botvinnik	Conformal Classes and Moduli spaces
Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar: October 28-29
October 31, 2000	Guillermo Moreno	QUATERNIONIC BUNDLES ON COMPLEX PROJECTIVE SPACES
November 7, 2000	Boris Botvinnik	The relative Yamabe invariant
November 14, 2000		No seminar
November 21, 2000	Hal Sadofsky	Inverse limits and homology
November 28, 2000	Tadg Woods	Lorentz Target Wave Maps