Geometry Seminar

Program of fall term 2008/09

October 16 Eduard Nigsch: "A nonlinear theory of distributional tensor analysis" Abstract
October 23 Shantanu Dave: "Families of operators on J-holomorphic curves" Abstract
October 30 Thomas Benes: "Degenerations of pre-Lie Algebras" Abstract
November 13 Dan Burghelea (Ohio State University): " What can we do with differential forms besides familiar manipulations? STRING COHOMOLOGY" Abstract
November 20 Defense of the PhD thesis "Weyl structures for generic rank two distributions in dimension five" by Katja Sagerschnig Abstract
November 27 Peter Michor "The convenient setting for Denjoy-Carleman ultradifferentiable functions and its applications in infinite dimensional differential geometry" Abstract
December 4 Dennis Westra "On singularities in supervarieties" Abstract
December 11 Attention: 15:45-16:45, Schrödinger lecture room, ESI
Dietrich Burde "On Serre's modularity conjecture for 2-dimensional mod p Galois representations" Abstract
December 18 Tomasz Rybicki (AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow) "On the structure of the classical diffeomorphism groups" Abstract
January 8 Mathieu Molitor (Universite de Metz, CNRS) "Some Euler-Lagrange equations on the space of smooth embeddings"
January 15 Mathieu Molitor (Universite de Metz, CNRS) "Some Euler-Lagrange equations on the space of smooth embeddings II"
January 22 no seminar because of the Srni conference
January 29 Bernhard Krötz (MPI Bonn) "Convexity theorems in complex geometry" Abstract

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