Geometry at the ULB

differential geometry at the Université libre de Bruxelles

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Andriy Haydys to talk in geometry seminar, 21 March

Andriy Haydys will speak in the geometry seminar on Tuesday 21 March from 2pm-3pm. The talk will be in the Salle de Profs (9th floor, building NO). His title is “Isolated singularities of affine special Kähler metrics in two dimensions” and his abstract is below.

I will show that there are just two types of isolated singularities of special Kaehler metrics in real dimension two provided the associated holomorphic cubic form does not have essential singularities. I will also present examples of such metrics.

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.