Geometry at the ULB

differential geometry at the Université libre de Bruxelles

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Flexibility and contact geometry – at the ULB 14-16 December

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…]

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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…]

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.