Topology/Geometry seminar, Tuesday 3:30-4:30pm, at Hill 005 (basement of Hill), Spring 2017




Jan. 24,  no seminar     
Jan. 31, Prof. Loustau, Brice, Rutgers at Newark   Computing twisted harmonic maps   
Feb. 7,  Prof. Burago, D., Penn. State Univ. A Few Math Fairy Tales   
Feb. 14, Prof. Fenley, Sergio, Florida State and Princeton  Free Seifert fibered pieces of pseudo-Anosov flows 
Feb. 21, Prof. Lam, Wai-Yeung, Brown Univ.,     Minimal surfaces from deformations of circle patterns 
Feb. 28, Dr. Guo,  Siao-hao, Rutgers,  Analysis of Velázquez's solution to the mean curvature flow with a type II singularity  
Mar. 7,  Prof. Lin, Yong, Remin University, China and Harvard Poincare inequality and Gaussian heat kernel estimate for non-negatively curved graphs  
Mar. 14, Spring Break
Mar. 21, reserved    
Mar. 29, 3:30-4:30, Hill 101, (please note the special time and room) Prof. Koberda, Thomas, Univ. of Virginia,  Quotients of surface groups via TQFT 
April 4, Prof. Xiao, Ling, Rutgers,  INTERIOR CURVATURE ESTIMATES AND THE ASYMPTOTIC PLATEAU PROBLEM IN HYPERBOLIC SPACE 
April 11, two talks. Prof. Jiang, Xumin, 3:30-4:30pm, Rutgers     Boundary expansion for minimal graphs in the hyperbolic space  
April 11, Prof. Suris, Yuri, 4:50-5:50pm, Hill 525,  Technische Universität, Berlin,  Pluri-lagrangian structure as integrability of variational systems 
April 18, Prof. Palmer, Joseph, Rutgers,   An introduction to semitoric integrable systems and the semitoric helix     
April 25, Prof. Coskunuzer, Baris, Boston College Embeddedness of the solutions to the H-Plateau Problem
May 2, Dr. Wang, Yusheng, Beijing Normal University and Rutgers,  On the Soul Conjecture in Alexandrov geometry