Dartmouth Graduate Geometry Seminar

Research Talks

Ian Adelstein
Convergence and the Length Spectrum - 2/25/14
Differentiability of the Distance Function - 2/18/14
Introduction to Comparison Geometry - 2/11/14
The Sphere Theorem - 2/4/14

Emma Chiappetta - Left Invariant Metrics on Lie Groups
Parts I-1/21/14, II-1/28/14

Jon Epstein - Magnetic Geodesics
Parts I-1/7/14, II-1/14/14

Nicolas Petit - Khovanov Homology
Parts I-11/12/13, II-11/19/13

Donato Cianci - Homegeneous Manifolds
Parts I-10/8/13, II-10/15/13, III-10/22/13, IV-10/29/13, V-11/5/13

Emma Chiappetta - The Alekseevski Conjecture
Parts I-9/19/13, II-9/24/13, III-10/1/13



Symplectic Geometry Date Speaker
Chp 17: Compact Kahler Manifolds5/21/13Nicolas Petit
Chp 16: Kahler Forms5/14/13Emma Chiappetta
Chp 15: Complex Manifolds5/7/13Donato Cianci
Chp 14: Dolbeault Theory4/30/13Nicolas Petit
Chp 13: Compatible Triples4/23/13Jon Epstein
Chp 12: Almost Complex Structures4/16/13Ian Adelstein
Chp 11: Contact Dynamics4/9/13Emma Chiappetta
Chp 10: Contact Forms4/2/13Nicolas Petit
Chp 22: Hamiltonian Actions2/19/13Nicolas Petit
Chp 21: Lie Group Actions2/12/13Emma Chiappetta
Chp 20: Legendre Transform1/29/13Donato Cianci
Chp 19: Variational Principles1/22/13Jon Epstein
Chp 18: Hamiltonian Vector Fields1/15/13Emma Chiappetta
Chp 4: Symplectic Generating Functions11/13/12Ian Adelstein
Homework 311/6/12
Chp 3: Lagrangian Submanifolds 10/31/12Donato Cianci
Homework 2 10/23/12
Chp 2: Symplectic Forms on the Cotangent Bundle 10/17/12Nicolas Petit
Homework 1 10/9/12
Chp 1: Symplectic Forms 10/3/12Jon Epstein


Morse Theory Date Speaker
Part III: The Calculus of Variations Applied to Geodesics 3/26/13Ian Adelstein
Section 5: The Morse Inequalities 9/25/12Ian Adelstein
Thm 3.5: CW Structure and Complex Projective Space 9/18/12Emma Chiappetta
Thm 3.2: Homotopy Type in Terms of Critical Values 9/11/12Ian Adelstein
Thm 3.1: Homotopy Equivalence in the Absense of Critical Points 8/23/12Donato Cianci
Lemma 2.2: The Morse Lemma 8/14/12Jon Epstein
GSS: Introduction to Morse Theory 8/2/12Ian Adelstein