Stephan Tillmann

Seminar:	Monday	10:00 - 11:00	Alice Hoy 330
Discussion Group:	Thursday	15:15 - 17:15	Alice Hoy 330

Friday, 27 June, 10:30-12:00, Room 107: Arun Ram: Type C Hecke algebras and Temperley-Lieb algebras
Wednesday, 2 July, 10:30-12:00, Room 107: Arun Ram: Introduction to the Path Model
Monday, 14 July, 13:00-14:15, Room 213 (StatMech/Combinatorics seminar): Isabel Hubard (University of Auckland): Abstract polytopes and their symmetries
Friday, 18 July, 10:30-12:00, Room 107: Alexander Kleshchev (University of Oregon): Introduction to W-algebras
Tuesday, 22 July, 12:00-13:00, Russell Love Theatre (Thesis Colloquium): Loretta Bartolini: One-sided Heegaard splittings of 3-manifolds
Tuesday, 22 July, 13:00-14:00, Room 107: Alexander Kleshchev (University of Oregon): Introduction to Whittaker modules
Friday, 25 July, 10:00-11:30, Room 107: Alexander Kleshchev (University of Oregon): Introduction to cyclotomic Hecke algebras
Friday, 25 July, 11:30-13:00, Room 107: Geordie Williamson (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg): Knot homology and equivariant homology

Monday, 28 July, 10:00, Alice Hoy 330: Paul Norbury: Branched covers, lattice points and the moduli space of curves
Thursday, 31 July, 15:15, Alice Hoy 330: Discussion Group: Branched covers, fat graphs and cells in moduli space (Paul Norbury)
Monday, 4 August, 10:00, Alice Hoy 330: Arun Ram: M_{g,n}, counting and recursions
Tuesday, 5 August, 10:00, Architecture 103 (Extra Seminar): Loretta Bartolini: One-sided Heegaard splittings of 3-manifolds
Thursday, 7 August, 15:15, Alice Hoy 330: Ezra Getzler (Northwestern University): Teichmüller space and topological field theory in two dimensions

Monday, 11 August, 10:00, Alice Hoy 330: Craig Westerland: Hurwitz spaces and string topology
Thursday, 14 August, 15:15, Alice Hoy 330: Discussion Group: Loop spaces and string topology (Craig Westerland)
Monday, 18 August, 10:00, Alice Hoy 330: Arun Ram: M_{g,n} and Fock space
Tuesday, 19 August, 12:00, Russell Love Theatre (Departmental Colloquium): Hyam Rubinstein: Representing maximum classes and sample compression
Thursday, 21 August, 15:15, Alice Hoy 330: Discussion Group: Introduction to buildings (Arun Ram)

Monday, 25 August, 10:00, Alice Hoy 330: Craig Hodgson: Harmonic deformations of hyperbolic 3-manifolds (Slides)
Tuesday, 26 August, 10:00, Architecture 103 (Extra Seminar): Murray Elder (University of Queensland): Amenability and percolation for infinite graphs (Slides)
Thursday, 28 August, 15:15, Alice Hoy 330: Discussion Group: Harmonic deformations (Craig Hodgson)
Monday, 1 September, 10:00, Alice Hoy 330: Peter Milley: Mom-technology and small hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Thursday, 4 September, 15:15, Alice Hoy 330: Discussion Group

Monday, 8 September, 10:00, Alice Hoy 330: Nora Ganter: 196884 = 196883 + 1
Thursday, 11 September, 15:15, Alice Hoy 330: Discussion Group
Monday, 15 September, 10:00, Alice Hoy 330: Craig Westerland: 196884 - 1 = 196883
Thursday, 18 September, 15:15, Alice Hoy 330: Discussion Group

The seminar takes a break. You may be interested in the:: Twenty-Sixth Victorian Algebra Conference, 2–3 October 2008, RMIT

Monday, 6 October, 10:00, Alice Hoy 330: Mike Eastwood (University of Adelaide): Conformal invariants and semiconformal mappings
Tuesday, 7 October, 12:00, Russel Love Theatre (Departmental Colloquium): Mike Eastwood (University of Adelaide): Div, grad, curl, and all that
Thursday, 9 October, 15:15 - 17:15, James Hardie Theatre (Architecture): Honours talks: Natalie Aisbett (15:15), James Wan (15:45), Sam Hart (16:20), Tharatorn Supasiti (16:50)
Friday, 10 October, 15:15 - 17:15, Old Geology Theatre 2: Honours talks: James Saunderson (15:15), Anita Dow (15:45), Paul Wu (16:20), Richard Neilsen (16:50)

Monday, 13 October, 10:00, Alice Hoy 330: Omar Foda: 196884 - 0.5 = 196883 + 0.5
Thursday, 16 October, 15:15, Alice Hoy 330: Discussion Group

Monday, 20 October, 10:00, Alice Hoy 330: Alexandru Ghitza: Modular forms in arithmetic geometry
Thursday, 23 October, 15:15, Alice Hoy 330: Discussion Group
Monday, 27 October, 10:00, Alice Hoy 330: Paul Norbury: Modular forms in geometry
Thursday, 30 October, 15:15, Alice Hoy 330: Discussion Group

Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 13:00, Room 107 (Stat-Mech seminar): Emily Peters (UC Berkeley): Planar algebras and knot invariants
Wednesday, 12 November 2008 13:15 Geoff Opat Seminar room (360), Physics: Peter Bouwknegt (ANU): Gauge Theory and Langlands Duality
Thursday, 13 November, JH Michell Theatre (Theatre A), 15:15: Peter Bouwknegt (ANU): T-duality: An overview
Tuesday, 18 November, Russell Love, 12:00 Departmental Thesis Seminar: Thomas Handscomb: Surface bundles and Lefschetz fibrations
Thursday, 20 November, Room 213, 15:15: John Groves: Applications of tropical geometry to group theory
Thursday, 27 November, Room 213, 15:15: Stephan Tillmann: Applications of tropical geometry to manifolds
Friday, 28 November, TBA, TBA: Talks by completing Honours/PGDip students

Tuesday, 11 November, JH Michell Theatre (Theatre A), 15:15 - 17:15: Nora Ganter: Introduction to K-theory I
Tuesday, 18 November, Room 213, 14:15 - 16:15: Nora Ganter: Introduction to K-theory II
Tuesday, 25 November, Room 213, 14:15 - 16:15: Nora Ganter: Introduction to K-theory III
Tuesday, 2 December, Room 213, 15:15 - 17:15: Nora Ganter: Introduction to K-theory IV