Alberto Raffero (Università degli studi di Firenze, Italy) will speak in the geometry seminar on the 30th January. The talk will take place in the Salle de Profs (9th floor, NO) at 13.30pm. Alberto’s title is “Symplectic half-flat 6-manifolds and the Laplacian G_2-flow” and the abstract is below. [Read more…]

Timothée Marquis (Université Catholique de Louvain) will speak in the geometry seminar on the 14th November. The talk will take place in the Salle de Profs (9th floor, NO) at 14.45pm. His title is “On continuous one-parameter subgroups of Kac-Moody groups” and the abstract is below. [Read more…]

Hông Van Lê (Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic) will speak in the geometry seminar on the 19th December. The talk will take place in the Salle de Profs (9th floor, NO) at 13.30pm. Hông’s title is “Novikov homology and Novikov fundamental groups” and the abstract is below. [Read more…]

Vincent Colin (Université de Nantes) will speak in the geometry seminar on the 24th November. The talk will take place at 10.30am and the room wll be communicated soon. Please note the unusual day (Friday) and unsusual time, which is earlier than usual! Vincent’s title is “Topological entropy of the Reeb vector field” and his abstract is below. [Read more…]