The final details are now in place for the upcoming conference Flexibility and Contact Geometry which will be held at the ULB on 14-16 December. Besides some great talks, we will also have the opportunity to watch Strom Borman, Yasha Eliashberg and Emmy Murphy receive a prize from the Académie Royale de Belgique for their recent breakthrough in the existence of contact structures in all dimensions. [Read more…]
Archives for November 2015
Postdocs and permanent position open in Edinburgh
The School of Mathematics at University of Edinburgh is currently advertising a number of positions of interest to algebraic geometers. The original advert, from Arend Bayer, is repeated below. [Read more…]
Ljudmila Kamenova to speak in the geometry seminar 8/12/2015
Ljudmila Kamenova (University of NY at Stony Brook) will speak in the geometry seminar on 8th December 2015. The talk will be at 3.15pm in the Salle de Profs on the 9th floor of building NO. Please note the unusual time which is because there are two geometry seminars on the 8th December. Ljudmila’s title is On Kobayashi’s pseudometric of compact complex manifolds. The abstract follows. [Read more…]
Nikon Kurnosov to speak in the geometry seminar, 10/11/2015
Nikon Kurnosov (Moscow) will speak in the geometry seminar on 10th November. The talk will be at 2pm in O8.08, 8th floor of building NO. Nikon’s title is Betti numbers of hyperkahler manifolds and his abstract follows. [Read more…]