Seminars and Colloquia
| Everytopic Seminar Fridays 1:40-3 pm Goldsmith 226 |
Topology Seminar Tuesdays 1:40-3 pm Goldsmith 226. |
Graduate Student Seminar Thursdays 3-4 pm Goldsmith 117. |
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Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern Colloquium Thursday 4:30-5:30 |
New Directions Lecture Series Thursday 2:10-3 Goldsmith 317 |
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Eisenbud Lecture Series in Mathematics and Physics featuring Dan Freed of the University of Texas, Austin. April 13-15, 2010.
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A full listing of seminars may be found on the Mathematics Calendar on MyBrandeis.
Seminars in the next 10 days:
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Friday, November 20, 2009
1:40 pm - 3:00 pm
Goldsmith 226
Seminar Schedule
Description: The Everytopic Seminar is an amalgamation of the Fellowship of the Ring Seminar and the Everyperson Seminar. The talks will be 80 minutes, with the first half of the talk given in a colloquium style, which will be accessible to faculty and graduate students from any field of mathematics, and allow everyone to grasp the content and significance of the theorem(s) being discussed. The last 40 minutes will be in the style of a research seminar, providing the audience with a deeper understanding of the results as well as some details of the proof. -
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
1:40 pm - 3:00 pm
Goldsmith 226
The topology seminar for the fall will discuss the potential use of invariants from knot theory in detecting counterexamples to the 4-dimensional Poincare conjecture. The idea originates in a recent preprint of Freedman, Gompf, Morrison, and Walker that certain homotopy 4-spheres would be shown to have exotic structures by computing the so-called Rasmussen s-invariant from Khovanov homology. There are several interesting subjects involved: most notably Khovanov homology and 4-dimensional handlebody theory (and other constructions in 4-manifold theory). Not much background will be assumed; this is a nice opportunity to learn some mathematics from an active and interesting area. -
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Goldsmith 226
The topology seminar for the fall will discuss the potential use of invariants from knot theory in detecting counterexamples to the 4-dimensional Poincare conjecture. The idea originates in a recent preprint of Freedman, Gompf, Morrison, and Walker that certain homotopy 4-spheres would be shown to have exotic structures by computing the so-called Rasmussen s-invariant from Khovanov homology. There are several interesting subjects involved: most notably Khovanov homology and 4-dimensional handlebody theory (and other constructions in 4-manifold theory). Not much background will be assumed; this is a nice opportunity to learn some mathematics from an active and interesting area. -
Thursday, December 03, 2009
2:10 pm - 3:00 pm
Goldsmith 317
A series of weekly lectures by faculty members or visitors of Brandeis Mathematics Department aimed at introducing various research areas of mathematics to graduate students and all interested parties. Schedule and Abstracts