Josef G. Dorfmeister	Research interests Relative invariants on Symplectic Manifolds Kodaira Dimension of Symplectic Manifolds Smooth 4-Manifolds Gromov-Witten Invariants J-holomorphic curves and moduli spaces Symplectic Topology and Geometry
		Address	North Dakota State University Department of Mathematics 1210 Albrecht Boulevard Minard 412 North Dakota State University Fargo ND 58102
		Office	Minard 406E
		Phone	+1 (701) 231-6522
		Email	josef.dorfmeister@ndsu.edu
		Office Hours	See the course website on Blackboard

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Publications and Preprints

1. The Kodaira Dimension of Lefschetz Fibrations, (with Weiyi Zhang), Asian J. Math., 13 (2009) no. 3 341--358.
   
2. The Relative Symplectic Cone and T^2-Fibrations, (with Tian Jun Li), J. of Symplectic Geom., 8 (2010) no. 1, 1--35.
   
3. Relative Ruan and Gromov-Taubes Invariants of Symplectic 4-Manifolds, (with Tian Jun Li), Commun. Contemp. Math. 15 (2013), no. 1, 50 pp.
   
4. Minimality of Fiber Sums along Spheres, Asian J. Math. 17 (2013), no. 3, 423--442.
   
5. Kodaira Dimension of Fiber Sums along Spheres, Geom. Dedicata 177 (2015), 1--25.
   
6. Stability and Existence of Surfaces in Symplectic 4-Manifolds with b+=1, (with Tian Jun Li and Weiwei Wu) to appear Crelle
   
7. Kodaira dimension of Lefschetz fibrations over tori, Proc. of the AMS
   

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Colloquium of the Department of Mathematics

Analysis, Applied Math and Geometry Seminar

GRK 1463 : Analysis, Geometry and String Theory

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Teaching
On Blackboard

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