Talks Held during the Fall 2000 Semester.

November 15, 2000:

Misha Sodin, Tel Aviv University,


Title: Zeros of Gaussian Analytic Functions.

November 22, 2000:

Ilya Tyomkin, Tel Aviv University,


Title: Existence of curves with prescribed topological singularities on algebraic surfaces

November 29, 2000:

Ilya Tyomkin, Tel Aviv University,


Title: Geometry of Product Surfaces via Moduli Spaces of Curves.

December 6, 2000:

Ron Livne, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.


Title: Prym Varieties with Quaternionic Action.

December 13, 2000:

Stepan Orevkov, University of Toulouse (France).


Title: Classification up to Isotopy of Real Projective Pseudo-Holomorphic M-Curves of Degree 8.

December 20, 2000:

Maxim Braverman, Northeastern University (USA).


Title: Cohomology of the Mumford Quotient.

December 27, 2000:

Dietmar Salamon, ETH (Zurich).


Title: J-holomorphic Curves and Moment Maps.

January 3, 2001:

Inna Scherbak, Tel-Aviv University.


Title: Critical Points of Products of Linear Functions and Representations of the Lie Algebra sl_2.

January 10, 2001:

Andrei Reznikov, Weizmann Institute.


Title: Analytic Continuation of Eigenfunctions of Laplacian on a Compact Riemann Surface.

January 17, 2001:

Jenia Shustin, Tel-Aviv University.


Title: Pseudo-Holomorphic Hypersurfaces and the Viro Method.

January 24, 2001:

Yosef Yomdin, Weizmann Institute.


Title: Abel Differential Equations, Moments and Center-Focus Problem on Elliptic Curves.



Talks Held during the Spring 2001 Semester.

March 7, 2001:

Gert-Martin Greuel, University of Kaiserslautern,


Title: Presentation of "Singular" and Applications.

March 14, 2001:

Christoph Lossen, University of Kaiserslautern,


Title: Geometry of Equisingular Families of Curves on Algebraic Surfaces.

March 21, 2001:

Paul Biran, Tel-Aviv University,


Title: Lagrangian Non-Intersections.

March 28, 2001:

Misha Polyak, Tel-Aviv University,


Title: Perturbative Invariants, Configuration Spaces, and Degrees of Maps.

April 18, 2001:

Shmuel Weinberger, Chicago University,


Title: Symmetry of Non-Positively Curved Manifolds.

May 2'nd, 2001:

Tatiana Bandman, Bar-Ilan University,


Title: C-Actions on Low-Dimensional Complex Affine Varieties.

May 9, 2001:

Ely Kerman, Fields Institute, Toronto,


Title: Periodic Orbits of Hamiltonian Flows Near Symplectic Extrema.

May 16, 2001:

Sergei Matveev, Chelyabinsk State University,


Title: Algorithmic Classification of 3-Manifolds.

May 23, 2001:

Claude Viterbo, Ecole Polytechnique (Paris),


Title: Isoperimetric Problems in Symplectic Geometry.

May 30, 2001:

Leonid Polterovich, Tel-Aviv University,


Title: An Isoperimetric Inequality with Application to Dynamics.

June 6, 2001:

Samuel Grushevsky, Harvard University,


Title: Weil-Petersson Volumes of Moduli of Curves.