Steven Sivek (Imperial College, London) will speak in the geometry seminar on the 6th of March. The talk will take place in the Salle de Profs (9th floor, NO) at 13.30pm. Steven’ title is “SU(2)-cyclic surgeries and the pillowcase” and the abstract is below. [Read more…]

Will Merry (ETH Zurich) will speak in the geometry seminar on the 3rd of April. The talk will take place in the Salle de Profs (9th floor, NO) at 13.30pm. Will’ title and abstract are to be confirmed.

On the 12th December we will have a double bill. Along with the talk of Alix Deruelle, will also have Eleonora Di Nezza (IHES) who willtalk about “Complex Monge-Ampère equations with prescribed singularities”. Her talk will be at 2.45pm. The abstract is below. [Read more…]

Unfortunately the seminar described below has been cancelled as Kai Cieliebak has broken his foot and so is unable to travel to Brussels. We hope he will be able to visit next semester.

Kai Cieliebak (Augsburg) will speak in the geometry seminar on Thursday 16 November, at 1.30pm, in the Salle de Profs(9th floor, building NO). Note the unusual day! Kai’s title is “String topology and perturbative Chern-Simons theory”. His abstract is below. [Read more…]