An afternoon of geometric analysis in honor of Sergei Novikov

Serguei NovikovIn honor of Sergei Novikov, who will be retiring shortly, the Mathematics Department at the University of Maryland announces an afternoon of talks on topics in geometric analysis by some of Novikov's distinguished students: Gennadi Kasparov (Vanderbilt University), Igor Krichever (Columbia University), and Anton Zorich (Paris Jussieu).  The event will take place on Wednesday, April 26, 2017, in William E. Kirwan Hall, University of Maryland, room 3206, and will be followed by a dinner.  All are invited to participate.

Program

Abstracts of the talks may be found here.

  • 2:00-3:00. Gennadi Kasparov, On the Novikov higher signature conjecture: history and development
  • 3:00-3:15. Tea across the hall in room 3201
  • 3:15-4:15. Igor Krichever, A discrete analog of the Novikov-Veselov hierarchy and its applications
  • 4:15-4:30. Short break
  • 4:30-5:30. Anton Zorich, Equidistribution of square-tiled surfaces, meanders, and Masur-Veech volumes
  • 5:30-6:00. Presentation to Sergei in the Yorke Rotunda downstairs
  • 6:00-8:00. Buffet dinner in the Yorke Rotunda downstairs

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  • Exotic four-manifolds and TQFTs

    Speaker: Tye Lidman (North Carolina State University) - https://sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/tlid/home

    When: Mon, September 8, 2025 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Teichmüller Theory, U-Equations, and Theta-Functions

    Speaker: Dani Kaufman (Max Planck Institute) - https://sites.google.com/view/danikaufman/home

    When: Fri, September 19, 2025 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 1308
  • Minimal submanifolds, higher expanders, and waists of locally symmetric spaces

    Speaker: Ben Lowe (University of Chicago) - https://loweb24.github.io/

    When: Mon, September 22, 2025 - 2:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 1313
  • Locally Homogeneous Axiom A Flows and Anosov subgroups

    Speaker: Andy Sanders (Boston College)

    When: Mon, October 20, 2025 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Homology of Yang-Baxter operators: breakthrough or dead end?

    Speaker: Jozef Przytycki (The George Washington University) - https://math.columbian.gwu.edu/j%C3%B3zef-h-przytycki

    When: Mon, October 27, 2025 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • On 4-manifold mapping class groups

    Speaker: Sidhanth Raman (University of Chicago) - https://www.svraman.com/

    When: Mon, November 3, 2025 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Filling Links and Essential Systole

    Speaker: Yandi Wu (Rice University) - https://yandiwu.github.io/

    When: Mon, November 10, 2025 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Mapping class groups of infinite graphs

    Speaker: Thomas Hill (University of Utah) - https://sites.google.com/view/thomasbhill/home

    When: Mon, November 17, 2025 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Foams and their applications in link homology

    Speaker: Mikhail Khovanov (Johns Hopkins University) - https://sites.google.com/view/mkhovanov/

    When: Mon, November 24, 2025 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Ergodic maps and the cohomology of nilpotent Lie groups

    Speaker: Gioacchino Antonelli (University of Notre Dame) - https://sites.google.com/view/gioacchinoantonelli/

    When: Mon, December 8, 2025 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Finding canonical bases of skein algebras

    Speaker: Hyun Kyu Kim (Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)) - https://sites.google.com/site/hyunkyukimmath/

    When: Mon, March 2, 2026 - 11:00am
    Where: Kirwan Hall 2300
  • The space of subgroups of PSL_2R

    Speaker: Ian Biringer (Boston College) - https://ianbiringer.net/

    When: Mon, March 2, 2026 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 1313
  • Length of a Closed Geodesic in 3-Manifolds of Positive Scalar Curvature

    Speaker: Davi Maximo (University of Pennsylvania) - https://www2.math.upenn.edu/~dmaxim/

    When: Mon, March 9, 2026 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Enumerative problems for minimal surfaces with prescribed genus

    Speaker: Adrian Chu (Cornell University) - https://sites.google.com/view/adrianchu/

    When: Mon, March 30, 2026 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • [CANCELLED] Minimal higher genus fillings

    Speaker: Gregory Chambers (Rice University) - https://math.rice.edu/~grc3/

    When: Mon, April 6, 2026 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Spin^c Structures, Scalar Curvature, and Comass Bounds

    Speaker: Simone Cecchini (Texas A&M) - https://simonececchini.org/

    When: Mon, April 13, 2026 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Symplectic Tiling Billiards on Complete Affine Tori

    Speaker: Charles Daly (Max-Planck-Institute) - https://charles-daly-math.github.io/index.html

    When: Mon, April 20, 2026 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Area rigidity for the regular representation of surface groups

    Speaker: Riccardo Caniato (Caltech) - https://sites.google.com/view/riccardocaniato

    When: Mon, April 27, 2026 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Random quotients of hierarchically hyperbolic groups

    Speaker: Carolyn Abbott (Brandeis University) - https://www.carolynrabbott.com/

    When: Mon, May 4, 2026 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Applications of the Natural Flow in Nonpositive Curvature

    Speaker: Christopher Connell (Indiana University) - https://math.indiana.edu/about/faculty/connell-chris.html

    When: Tue, May 5, 2026 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 0102
  • Torelli symplectomorphisms on 4-manifolds

    Speaker: Anubhav Mukherjee (Princeton University) - https://sites.google.com/view/anubhav-mukherjee/home

    When: Mon, May 11, 2026 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206