Geometry at the ULB

differential geometry at the Université libre de Bruxelles

By

Summer School in Low Dimensional Topology, 4-8 July 2016

Below is a message from Andras Stipsicz, advertising a summer school in Low Dimensional Topology, July 4-8, 2016, to be held in Hungary.

Dear Collegue,

I would like to draw your attention to the Summer School we organize
at the Central European University in the week of July 4-8, 2016.

The topic of the Summer School is ‘Low Dimensional Topology’, and the
lectures are aimed on the level of interested graduate students and
recent post-doctoral fellows.

More information can be found on the web page.

Please spread this information to those potentially interested in
participating.

With best regards

Andras Stipsicz
Renyi Institute of Mathematics
Budapest, HUNGARY

By

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…]

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.