Seminars this week (surprise!)

[Robert Lipshitz]

Hi folks,

See the message below from Michael Thaddeus about two seminars this week, of SGGTC flavor.  Unfortunately, I'm going to miss them; I hope someone takes notes!

Robert

Begin forwarded message:

From: Michael Thaddeus <thad...@math.columbia.edu>

Subject: Special seminars on Friday, May 18

Dear colleagues,

Just to let you know we will have two special seminars on Friday, May 18, one week from today, in 507 Mathematics.  All are welcome.

11 am: Jorgen Ellegaard Andersen (Centre for the Quantum Geometry of Moduli Spaces, Aarhus University)
"The geometric construction of the Reshetikhin-Turaev mapping class group representations and asymptotics"

2 pm: Sean Keel (University of Texas)
"Mirror symmetry made easy"

Abstracts may be viewed at:
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~thaddeus/seminar.html

Regards to all,
Michael Thaddeus