Hugues Auvray (Orsay, Paris) will speak in the geometry seminar on Tuesday 17th November, 2015. The talk will take place in the Salle de profs (assuming the renovations are complete!) at 2pm. Hugue’s title is Extremal metrics of Poincaré type: asymptotic properties. His abstract follows. [Read more…]

We will have an exceptional seminar, of interest to both geometers and physicists, on Thursday 5th November, at 2pm in room O8.08. The speaker will be Kirill Krasnov, and his title is A gauge theoretic formalism for gravity. His abstract follows. [Read more…]

Marco Zambon, from KU Leuven, will speak in the geometry seminar on Tuesday 3rd November at 2pm. The talk will be in O8.08 on the 8th floor of NO. Please note the unusual room which we are using whilst the Salle de Profs is being renovated.

Marco’s title is “Multisymplectic manifolds, homotopy moment maps, and conserved quantities”; his abstract follows. [Read more…]

The geometry seminar on Tuesday 27th October will be given by Dmitri Panov of King’s College London. The seminar will start at 2pm, in troom O8.08 (8th floor of building NO).

Dmitri’s title is Spherical metrics with conical singularities on $latex S^2$. His abstract is below. [Read more…]