Date: Friday 3 February 2012, 4:30pm Location: Hempfield High School, Room 213 Speaker: Janet Talvacchia, Swarthmore College Title: Some remarks on Generalized Geometries Abstract. I'll give a brief introduction to the notions of a generalized geometry as introduced by Hitchin in 2003, particularly generalized complex structures and generalized contact structures. I'll mention the main results proved in this area and give a description of problems I am working on involving generalized contact structures.