University of Georgia
Department of Mathematics

Seminar Schedule
September 11 - September 15, 2006

All Seminars are held in Boyd Graduate Studies Bldg. unless otherwise noted.

MONDAY, September 11, 2006

Topology
2:30pm, Room 304
Speaker: Hua Bai, University of Georgia
Title of talk: Quantum Teichm\"{u}ller
Abstract: There are hints (Voulume Conjecture, etc.) of a possible connection between topological
quantum field theory and hyperbolic geometry. Chekhov, Fock and Kashaev introduced the Quantum Teichm\"{u}ller space of a punctured surface as an approach to quantum gravity in $2+1$ dimensions. In this talk, we will show how the local representation theory of the quantum Teichm\"uller space gives a framework which combines quantumn algebra and $3$-dimensional hyperbolic geometry. This is a continuing work after Bonahon and Liu.

Algebra
2:30pm, Room 410
Speaker: Victor Kreiman, University of Georgia
Title of talk: Affine Schubert Varieties and Standard Bases for Affine SL(n)-Modules

TUESDAY, September 12, 2006

VIGRE Graduate Student Seminar
2:00pm, Room 302
Speaker: Ken Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title of talk: TBA

Analysis
3:30pm, Room 222
Speaker: Jingzhi Tie, University of Georgia
Title of talk: SubRiemannian Geometry on the Heisenberg group and Engel Fields, II

WEDNESDAY, September 13, 2006

Algebraic Geometry
2:30pm, Room 410
Speaker: TBA
Title of talk: TBA

Faculty and Graduate Social
3:00pm, Room 409
Coffee, Tea, Cookies

Arithmetic Geometry/Number Theory
3:30pm, Room 304
Speaker: Pete Clark, University of Georgia
Title of talk: An attempt at a parallel introduction to (some) quaternionic Shimura curves., continued


THURSDAY, September 14, 2006

Wavelets and Splines
2:30pm, Room 524
Speaker: TBA
Title of talk: TBA

VIGRE-Algebraic Geometry
2:00pm, Room 410

VIGRE - Quantum Mechanics
3:30pm, Room 410


FRIDAY, September 15, 2006

Probability Theory
2:30pm, Room 323
No meeting this week

Geometry
2:30pm, Room 410
Speaker: TBA
Title of talk: TBA

VIGRE-Algebra
2:30pm, Room 304