Center for Dynamics and Geometry Colloquium Series
2006-07
Center for Dynamics and Geometry Colloquium meets on WEDNESDAYS in room 106 McAllister. One-hour talks will begin at 4pm on the
dates when there is no separate CD&G Geometry Seminar talks and at 4:40pm otherwise.
The goal of the new series is to highlight the most significant work in dynamical systems, classical and modern geometry, and
related fields. While usually slightly more advanced and focused than typical general mathematics colloquia the talks will be
aimed at a broad audience not restricted to experts an dynamical systems and geometry. Graduate students are particularly welcome.
Wednesday, November 15
Dusa McDuff
(SUNY Stony Brook)
Symplectic Characteristic Classes
Wednesday, December 6
Yulij Ilyashenko
(Cornell, Moscow State and Independent Universities)
Total rigidity of polynomial foliations
Wednesday, February 7
Richard Schwartz
(Brown University)
Unbounded orbits for outer billiards
Wednesday, February 14
Robert Bryant
(Duke University)
The geodesic flow on Finsler 2-spheres of constant curvature
Wednesday, February 28
Danny Calegari
(Caltech)
Quasigeodesic flows on 3-manifolds
Wednesday, March 7
Vladimir Matveev
(University of Jena)
Lie, Beltrami and Schouten problems.
Wednesday, April 11
Rafael Krikorian
(Ecole Polytechnique)
Herman's last geometric theorem
Wednesday, April 18
Karsten Grove
(University of Maryland)
Polar Manifolds
Wednesday, April 25
Helmut Hofer
(NYU)
Pseudoholomorphic Curves and Dynamics