UO Math Dept Geometry-Topology Seminar

The topology/geometry seminar of the Mathematics Department of the University of Oregon meets Tue. from 11:00-11:50 each week during the academic year in 209 Deady.
  • Last year's seminars (1998-99)
    University of Oregon Topology-Geometry Seminar, Fall 1999
    Date Speaker Title
    September 28, 1999 No seminar.
    Cascade Topology Seminar: October 2 and 3. Vancouver, British Columbia
    October 5, 1999 Hal Sadofsky Enough injectives in the category of towers of comodules
    October 12, 1999 Guillermo Moreno visiting from Centro de Investigación Cayley-Dickson algebras and their zero-divisors
    October 19, 1999 Guillermo Moreno visiting from Centro de Investigación Cayley-Dickson algebras II: Applications
    October 26, 1999 Guillermo Moreno visiting from Centro de Investigación The topology of the zero set of the Hopf map
    Note special day and time!
    November 4, 1999, 4pm Graham Denham Local systems on the complement of a hyperplane arrangement
    November 9, 1999 Peter Gilkey Geometric properties of the curvature operator
    Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar: November 13 and 14. Oregon State University
    November 16, 1999 Guihua Gong visiting from University of Puerto Rico Elliptic Boundary Conditions and relative K-cycles
    November 23, 1999 No seminar.
    November 30, 1999 Jim Isenberg Critical dimension and critical behavior of wave maps

    University of Oregon Topology-Geometry Seminar, Winter 2000
    Date Speaker Title
    January 4, 2000 No seminar.
    January 11, 2000
    January 18, 2000 Michiel van den Berg, University of Bristol Heat flow, area and capacity for regions with many small holes
    January 25, 2000 Hal Sadofsky Comparisons of spectral sequences
    February 1, 2000 Inga Johnson Factorizations of Projective Spaces
    February 8, 2000 Hal Sadofsky Coefficients in p-typical formal group laws
    February 15, 2000 Tan Zhang
    February 22, 2000 Kim Elce
    February 29, 2000 Boris Botvinnik Yamabe invariant and Massey product
    March 7, 2000 Kazuo Akutagawa Shizuoka University Yamabe invariants and generalized symplectic structures

    University of Oregon Topology-Geometry Seminar, Spring 2000
    Date Speaker Title
    March 28, 2000 No seminar.
    April 4, 2000 Isabel Dotti Universidad de Córdoba, Argentina Hypercomplex nilmanifolds
    April 11, 2000 Hal Sadofsky Adams Towers and Phantom Maps
    April 18, 2000 Klaus Kirsten University of Manchester Boundary contributions to the heat-equation asymptotics by special case Calculations
    April 25, 2000
    May 2, 2000
    May 9, 2000 Kathryn Lesh University of Toledo
    NOTE SPECIAL DATE AND TIME (Thursday, 4PM) BELOW:
    May 11, 2000 Bill Bogley Oregon State University Homological decision problems for groups with solvable word problem
    May 16, 2000 Christine Escher Oregon State University Orbits of SU(2) - representations and Minimal Isometric Immersions
    May 23, 2000 Jonathan Rosenberg University of Maryland Secrets of the signature operator
    NOTE SPECIAL DATE AND LOCATION (Thursday, Deady 202) BELOW:
    May 25, 2000 Reni Ivanova Tsukuba University, Japan On some problems in information geometry from a Riemannian point of view
    May 30, 2000 Greg Landweber Microsoft Research Dirac operators on homogeneous loop spaces

  • List subject to change.
  • Information as of 4 April 2000
  • Organizer for 1999-2000: Hal Sadofsky email: sadofsky@math.uoregon.edu
    Mathematics Department of the University of Oregon Eugene Oregon 97403 USA 1-541-346-4705
    Webmaster: Peter Gilkey email: gilkey@math.uoregon.edu