Geometry at the ULB

differential geometry at the Université libre de Bruxelles

Professors

Mélanie Bertelson

Michel Cahen

Joel Fine

Simone Gutt

Bruno Premoselli

Postdocs

Marcelo Alves

Yannick Herfray

Ralph Klaasse

Giovanni Mascellani

Matthias Shötz

PhD students

Julie Distexhe

Thibaut Grouy

Manh-Tien Nguyen

Marco Usula

ULB geometry seminar

A photograph of some chalk

The geometry seminar is held roughly every two weeks in term time. We invite speakers with a broad range of expertise, from all areas of … Read more

Brussels-London seminar

A photograph of the geodesic dome of the British Museum

Together with the geometry groups in London we organise a joint seminar which meets four or five times a year. Each event has three talks on … Read more

Reading seminar

Photograph of Archimedis Opera Non Nulla.

Besides our research seminars, we also organise a reading seminar. Sometimes we have a theme, in which we attempt to understand an important … Read more

Recent Posts

PhD Funding

We are always looking for strong PhD students to join the geometry group at the ULB. If you are interested in doing a PhD here, the first thing to do is to contact one of the permanent members to find a supervisor. Ideally this should be done by January of the calendar year in which you intend to begin your PhD. Once … Read more

Getting here

The department of mathematics is in building NO, on the Campus de la Plaine, of the Université libre de Bruxelles. The geometry group is on the 7th floor. This map shows NO, as well as the metro station Delta and the stop for the number 71 bus. The number 95 also stops a short walk from the department. See the STIB website for more information on public transport in Brussels.

Image credits

Polished ammonite fossil, by Kara Stenberg, Creative Commons licence CC BY-NC 2.0.

Model of 3D projection of a 120-cell, by Edmund Harriss.

The root system of the exceptional Lie algebra E8. By Jared Tarbell, Creative Commons Licence CC BY 2.0.