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Past Seminars and Workshops (2007 - 2008)

Geometry Seminar

• Desingularizations of Calabi-Yau 3-folds with isolated conical singularities by Dr. Yat Ming Chan
• On Indefinite Special Lagrangian Submanifolds in Indefinite Complex Euclidean Spaces by Professor Yuxin Dong
• Geometric analysis on the unit sphere S³ by Professor Der-Chen Chang
• Canonical Class Inequality for Pencils of Higher Dimensional Varieties by Professor Sheng-Li Tan
• Hyperbolic convexity and conformal reflections by Dr. Edward Crane
• Circle Packings and the Weierstrass P-function by Dr. Edward Crane
• Continua of minimal capacity and Smale’s mean value conjecture by Dr. Edward Crane
• Quivers and Calabi-Yau singularities by Dr. Martijn Wijnholt
• Pluricomplex Poisson kernel and horospheres for strongly convex domains by Professor Giorgio Patrizio
• Dichotomy of uniruled symplectic submanifolds by Professor Yong Bin Ruan
• Painlev? Differential Equations in the Complex Plane by Professor Ilpo Laine
• On transmission property of the discrete Heisenberg spin chain by Professor Qing Ding
• From Characteristic p > 0 to Characteristic 0 by Professor Xiaotao Sun
• Introduction to Calabi-Yau manifolds and Conifold Transitions by Dr. Yat Ming Chan
• Quadratic differentials, Loewner chains and evolving Fuchsian groups by Jonathan Tsai
• Divided difference operators in equivariant cohomology by Professor Reyer Sjamaar
• Theta Functions on the Kodaira ― Thurston Manifold by Dr. William Kirwin
• On SU(p, q)-orbits in the complex flag variety by Mr. Victor Mouquin
• Seshadri Constants on Jacobians and the Second Symmetric Products of Curves by Dr. Kung-Ho Chan
• Complex Manifolds Dominated by Compact Homogeneous Kähler Spaces by Dr. Chi-Hin Lau
• An analogy of the space of conformal blocks in (4k+2)-dimensions by Dr. Kiyonori Gomi
• The X-ray transform on complex projective space by Professor Mike Eastwood
• Families of canonically polarized varieties over surfaces by Professor Stefan Kebekus
• Equidistribution properties for endomorphisms of P^k by Professor Nessim Sibony
• Twisted K-theory and finite-dimensional approximation by Dr. Kiyonori Gomi
• Index theorem for constructible sheaves and for D-modules by Professor Pierre Schapira

Colloquium

• Dynamic multiplier ideal sheaves by Professor Yum-Tong Siu
• Spectrum, geometry and topology by Professor WANG Jiaping
• Euclid’s Elements : Then and Now, Within and Outreach by Professor Man Keung Siu
• Exponents of class groups of real quadratic fields by Dr. Kalyan Chakraborty
• Some of Roth’s Ideas in Discrepancy Theory by Prof. William W.L. Chen
• Representation numbers of integers by positive definite quadratic forms by Prof. Winfried Kohnen
• Electric-magnetic duality and modular invariance by Dr. Siye Wu
• On a nonlinear elastic shell system in liquid crystal theory by Professor C. Rogers
• Ergodic Theorems in Holomorphic Dynamics by Professor Nessim Sibony
• Hecke symmetry on modular varieties by Professor Ching-Li Chai

Special Lecture

• Rational curves on Fano manifolds (continued) by Professor Yum-Tong Siu
• Rational curves on Fano manifolds by Professor Yum-Tong Siu

Lecture Series in Financial Mathematics

· Lecture 2: The Markowitz Enigma: Mean-Variance Portfolio Optimization when Means and Variances are Unknown by Professor Tze Leung Lai

· Lecture 1: Mean-Variance Portfolio Optimization Theory: An Overview by Professor Tze Leung Lai

[Lecture Notes (The full version can be found in the book www.stanford.edu/~xing/statfinbook/index.html)]

Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium

• April 5, 2008 (at HKU)
• March 1, 2008 (at HKUST)
• January 26, 2008 (at CUHK)
• November 24, 2007 (at HKU)
• October 13, 2007 (at CUHK)
• September 22, 2007 (at HKUST)

Seminar

· Iterative Algorithm Based on the Decouple of Deblurring and Denoising for Image Restoration by Dr. You-Wei Wen

Student Seminar on Lie Theory

• sl(2, C), sl(3, C) and Simple Lie Algebras by Mr. FUNG Man Chung
• The Weyl groups of classical groups by Mr. TO Simon Kai Ming
• Classical Groups by Mr. Victor Mouquin
• Linear Lie Groups (cont’d) by Mr. HSIA Kwok Tung
• Linear Lie Groups (Part II) by Miss LAU Lai Ngor
• Linear Lie Groups (Part I) by Miss LAU Lai Ngor
• The Campbell-Baker-Hausdorff Formula (cont'd) by Mr. HO Tan Yu
• The exponential map and the Campbell-Baker-Hausdorff Formula by Mr. HO Tan Yu

Conferences and Workshops

· Workshop on Complex Geometry on August 5,7 & 8 2008 (amended)

· Workshop on Symplectic and Complex Geometry on May 26, 2008

· International Conference on Mathematics of Finance and Related Applications on Jan 3 – 4, 2008

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[2000-01], [2001-02], [2002-03], [2003-04], [2004-05], [2005-06], [2006-07]

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