Geometry at the ULB

differential geometry at the Université libre de Bruxelles

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Lower Ricci working group, talk 1

The working group on manifolds with lower bounds on Ricci curvature will start on Wednesday 10th February, 11h-13h in the Salle de Profs. Joel will give the first talk, which will be on Gromov’s precompactness theorem for manifolds with lower bounds on Ricci curvature.

During this meeting we will also fix the schedule of speakers for the other talks. Remember, the idea is for informal talks in which we all ask questions; the speaker is not expected to have mastered the material, the goal is to learn together. If you want to come, but don’t want to give a talk you are more than welcome.

The room is booked for Wednesdays, 11h-13h, every week up to and including the 30th March, by which time we’ll all be experts, surely! The full schedule is available on the reading seminar webpage.

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Postdoc position available in algebraic geometry in Nice

Below is a message from Christian Pauly advertising a postdoc post in algebraic geometry in Nice.

Dear colleagues,

A post-doctoral appointment is offered for a researcher in algebraic geometry having completed a PhD within the last 6 years. The candidate is expected to work on a topic related to moduli spaces of vector bundles and/or Higgs bundles. The place of work will be the Laboratoire J.-A.
Dieudonné of the Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis.

The appointment will be for 12 months, starting in September 2016 or before (the starting date will be agreed with the candidate). The monthly salary is around 2300 Euros and there are no teaching duties.

Applications should be sent to me by e-mail. They should include a CV, a short description of past research highlighting the most important results and a research project.

The deadline for application is the 1st of March 2016. All candidates will be informed by March the 31st 2016 of the final decision.

Best regards,
Christian Pauly

Laboratoire J.-A. Dieudonné
Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis
06108 Nice Cedex 02, France

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Postdoc in algebraic geometry in Oslo

Below is a message from John Christian Ottem, concerning a postdoc position available in Oslo.

Dear colleagues,

A 3-year postdoc position in algebraic geometry is available at the University of Oslo with starting date around September 1st 2016. The position has no teaching duties and comes with a competitive salary and research support. The supporting grant for the position is part of the project ‘Positivity and geometry of higher codimension subvarieties” funded by the Norwegian Research Council.

The deadline for applications is February 16th 2016.

More details can be found at this web page.

For more information, please feel free to contact me.

Please pass this information on to anyone who you think might be interested.

Best wishes,
John Christian Ottem​

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 entrance 2, which is right by the stop for the number 71 and 72 buses. 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.