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	<title>Organizational Meeting</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2014 15:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, September 4, 2014 - 3:30pm<br />Where: PHY 1117<br /><br />]]></description>
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	<title>Introduction to supersymmetry and integration in superspace</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, September 11, 2014 - 3:30pm<br />Where: PHY 1117<br />Speaker: Jim Gates and/or William Linch, Physics<br />
Abstract: We begin describing the basic setup of supersymmetry and introduce the problem of integration of superfields.<br />]]></description>
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	<title>Introduction to supersymmetry and integration in superspace</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, September 11, 2014 - 3:30pm<br />Where: PHY 1117<br />Speaker: Jim Gates and/or William Linch, Physics<br />
Abstract: We begin describing the basic setup of supersymmetry and introduce the problem of integration of superfields.<br />]]></description>
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	<title>Introduction to supersymmetry and integration in superspace</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, September 18, 2014 - 3:30pm<br />Where: PHY 1117<br />Speaker: Jim Gates and/or William Linch, Physics<br />
Abstract: We begin describing the basic setup of supersymmetry and introduce the problem of integration of superfields.<br />]]></description>
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	<title>no meeting (Rosh Hashanah)</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2014 15:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, September 25, 2014 - 3:30pm<br />Where: <br /><br />]]></description>
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	<title>Introduction to supersymmetry and integration in superspace (cont&#039;d)</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2014 15:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, October 2, 2014 - 3:30pm<br />Where: PHY 1117<br />Speaker: Jim Gates and/or William Linch, Physics<br />
Abstract: We begin describing the basic setup of supersymmetry and introduce the problem of integration of superfields.<br />]]></description>
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	<title>no meeting this week</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2014 15:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, October 9, 2014 - 3:30pm<br />Where: <br /><br />]]></description>
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	<title>no meeting this week</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, October 16, 2014 - 3:30pm<br />Where: <br /><br />]]></description>
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	<title>De Rham and Chevalley-Eilenberg cohomology, part 1</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 15:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, October 23, 2014 - 3:30pm<br />Where: <br />Speaker: Paul Green (UMd)<br />
Abstract: We review the famous paper of Chevalley and Eilenberg on Lie algebra cohomology in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 63 (1948), http://www.ams.org/journals/tran/1948-063-01/S0002-9947-1948-0024908-8/S0002-9947-1948-0024908-8.pdf<br />
with a view toward understanding supersymmetric generalizations.<br />]]></description>
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	<title>Super-Lie algebra cohomology and de Rham cohomology on supermanifolds</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2014 15:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, October 30, 2014 - 3:30pm<br />Where: PHY 1117<br />Speaker: Paul Green<br />
Abstract: We will try to discuss how one could extend the work of Chavelley-Eilenberg to the case of supermanifolds.<br />]]></description>
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	<title>The supersymmetric harmonic oscillator</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2014 15:30:00 EST</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, November 6, 2014 - 3:30pm<br />Where: Physics 1117<br />Speaker: Jim Gates (UMd) - http://umdphysics.umd.edu/about-us/people/faculty/135-gates.html<br />
Abstract: We will discuss the supersymmetric harmonic oscillator in detail, in an attempt to arrive at a mathematical theory of supersymmetry that includes the most important physical examples.<br />]]></description>
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	<title>Further discussion of foundations of supersymmetry</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:30:00 EST</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, November 13, 2014 - 3:30pm<br />Where: PHY 1117<br /><br />]]></description>
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	<title>More on the supersymmetric oscillator and related examples</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:30:00 EST</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, November 20, 2014 - 3:30pm<br />Where: Physics 1117<br />Speaker: Jonathan Rosenberg (UMd) - http://www2.math.umd.edu/~jmr/<br />
<br />]]></description>
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	<title>More on supersymmetric sigma-models</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 15:30:00 EST</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, December 4, 2014 - 3:30pm<br />Where: Physics 1117<br />Speaker: Jonathan Rosenberg (UMd) - <br />
<br />]]></description>
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	<title>Organizational meeting for the spring semester</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:30:00 EST</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, January 29, 2015 - 3:30pm<br />Where: PHY 1117<br />Speaker:  () - <br />
<br />]]></description>
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	<title>Lott&#039;s paper on torsion constraints, part 1</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2015 15:30:00 EST</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, February 5, 2015 - 3:30pm<br />Where: PHY 1117<br />Speaker: Daniel Marino-Johnson<br />
Abstract: We will begin studying Lott&#039;s paper &quot;The Geometry of Supergravity Torsion Constraints&quot;,  arXiv:math/0108125.  For more details see Comm. Math. Phys. 133 (1990), 563-615, though the arxiv paper is shorter and easier to read.<br />]]></description>
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	<title>Supergravity in 2+1 dimensions</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:30:00 EST</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, February 12, 2015 - 3:30pm<br />Where: PHY 1117<br />Speaker: Jim Gates, UMD<br />
Abstract: We&#039;ll explain the geometric setup (using supermanifolds) for 3D supergravity (in flat space).<br />]]></description>
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	<title>Lott&#039;s paper on torsion constraints, part 2</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:30:00 EST</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, February 19, 2015 - 3:30pm<br />Where: PHY 1117<br />Speaker: Matt Calkins<br />
Abstract: Further discussion of Lott&#039;s paper &quot;The Geometry of Supergravity Torsion Constraints&quot;,  arXiv:math/0108125, focusing on specific examples: U(n) structures and supergravity in 3D.<br />]]></description>
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	<title>Differential forms in superspace</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:30:00 EST</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, February 26, 2015 - 3:30pm<br />Where: PHY 1117<br />Speaker: Stephen Randall<br />
Abstract: I will talk on differential forms in superspace, as they come up in my undergraduate thesis, arxiv:1412.4448.<br />]]></description>
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	<title>Bianchi identities and (super)Lie algebra cohomology</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2015 15:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, March 12, 2015 - 3:30pm<br />Where: PHY 1117<br />Speaker: Stephen Randall and William Linch<br />
Abstract: We&#039;ll discuss how (super)Lie algebra cohomology makes it possible to organize all the Bianchi identities for superforms, which previously didn&#039;t appear to follow any particular pattern.  Reference: arXiv:1412.4686. (postponed because of snow from 3/5)<br />]]></description>
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	<title>Witten&#039;s paper on integration on supermanifolds, part 1</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2015 15:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, March 26, 2015 - 3:30pm<br />Where: PHY 1117<br />Speaker: Matt Calkins<br />
Abstract: We will begin talking about E. Witten, &quot;Notes On Supermanifolds and Integration&quot;, arxiv:1209.2199.<br />]]></description>
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	<title>Witten&#039;s paper on integration on supermanifolds, part 2</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2015 15:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, April 2, 2015 - 3:30pm<br />Where: PHY 1117<br />Speaker: Matt Calkins<br />
Abstract: We will begin talking about E. Witten, &quot;Notes On Supermanifolds and Integration&quot;, arxiv:1209.2199.<br />]]></description>
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	<title>Introduction to &quot;ectoplasm&quot;</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2015 15:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, April 9, 2015 - 3:30pm<br />Where: PHY 1117<br />Speaker: Jim Gates and William Linch<br />
Abstract: We will begin talking about S. J. Gates, &quot;Ectoplasm Has No Topology: The Prelude&quot;,  arXiv:hep-th/9709104, and its connection with the Witten paper on integration.<br />]]></description>
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	<title>Introduction to &quot;ectoplasm&quot; (cont&#039;d)</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, April 16, 2015 - 3:30pm<br />Where: PHY 1117<br />Speaker: Jim Gates and William Linch<br />
Abstract: We will begin talking about S. J. Gates, &quot;Ectoplasm Has No Topology: The Prelude&quot;,  arXiv:hep-th/9709104, and its connection with the Witten paper on integration.<br />]]></description>
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	<title>Introduction to &quot;ectoplasm&quot; (cont&#039;d)</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, April 23, 2015 - 3:30pm<br />Where: PHY 1117<br />Speaker: Jim Gates<br />
Abstract: Further discussion of S. J. Gates, &quot;Ectoplasm Has No Topology: The Prelude&quot;,  arXiv:hep-th/9709104, and its connection with the Witten paper on integration.<br />]]></description>
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	<title>No meeting this week</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2015 15:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, April 30, 2015 - 3:30pm<br />Where: PHY 1117<br /><br />]]></description>
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	<title>More on relative Lie algebra cohomology and superforms</title>
	<link>http://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars.html</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2015 15:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[When: Thu, May 7, 2015 - 3:30pm<br />Where: PHY 1117<br />Speaker: Daniel Marino-Johnson<br />
<br />]]></description>
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