The geometry seminar is typically held every Monday in term time at 2pm, in the Salle des Profs (9th floor, building NO). We invite speakers with a broad range of expertise, from all areas of differential geometry, algebraic geometry and geometric analysis. If you would like to suggest a speaker, give a talk yourself, or want any further information about the seminar then contact any of the professors in the geometry group.
The schedule for the upcoming term is below. Click here to find the previous seminars, back to 2015.
June 2026
- 15/06/2026 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Tomasso Pacini
Anisotropic calibrations, adiabatic limits and mirror symmetry. - 08/06/2026 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Rodion Déev ULB
Holomorphic families of knots.
May 2026
- 25/05/2026 Double bill!
- 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Anna Roig-Sanchis (Nice).
Minimal surfaces with negative curvature in large dimensional spheres. - 15h15 Salle des Profs 9th floor building NO.
Gonzalo Cao (EPFL, Laussane)
The Schiffer conjecture on the half-sphere.
- 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
- 18/05/2026 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Andries Salm (ULB)
Metric perturbations of degenerate Z/2-harmonic 1-forms. - 04/05/2026 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Adam Thompson (Münster)
New examples of Ricci solitons with non-compact symmetry.
April 2026
- 20/04/2026 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Alberto Abbondandolo (Bochum)
Title to be announced. - 13/04/2026 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Diego Artacho de Obeso (KU Leuven)
Stability of Einstein metrics from the spinorial viewpoint.
March 2026
- 30/03/2026 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Andrea Bisterzo (Scuola Normale Superiore, Centro Ennio de Giorgi)
Characterizations of embedded minimal helicoids and totally geodesic hypersurfaces in space-forms. - 23/03/2026 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Lorenzo Sillari (Edros Center)
Topological and geometric aspects of almost complex 4-manifolds in the spirit of Enriques-Kodaira classification. - 09/03/2026 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Marco Usula (Oxford)
Nahm poles and 0-instantons. - 02/03/2026 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Hartmut Weiss (Kiel)
Transgressive harmonic maps and SU(1,1)-self-duality solutions.
February 2026
- 23/02/2026 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Yannick Herfray (Tours)
A new twist to twistor theory (higher spin interactions). - 09/02/2026 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Rodrigo Avalos (Tübingen)
Regularity of compactified AE 3-manifolds and optimal structures of infinity. - 02/02/2026 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
John Hughes (Oxford)
Towards a Taub-Bolt to Taub-NUT via Ricci flow with surgery.
January 2026
- 26/01/2026 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Qiu Shi Wang (Oxford)
Computer-assisted construction of SU(2)-invariant cohomogeneity one Einstein metrics - 19/01/2026 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Kiril Krasnov (Nottingham)
G-structures, elliptic complexes and 4D Einstein equations.
December 2025
- 15/12/2025 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Juan Munoz-Echaniz (Stonybrook New York)
Constraints on Lefschetz fibrations with 4-dimensional fibers. - 08/12/2025 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Davide Parise (Imperial College London)
Log-epiperimetric inequalities for conformally invariant geometric variational problems. - 01/12/2025 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Romain Saunier (Toulouse)
Embedded Contact Homology for monotone toric domains
November 2025
- Note the unusual time and day!
27/11/2025 12h30 Salle des Profs 9th floor building NO.
Christophe Böhm (Münster)
The cohomogeneity one Einstein ODE. - 24/11/2025 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Hartmut Weiss (Kiel)
Talk postponed due to general strike - 10/11/2025 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Jean Gutt (ULB)
Ekeland-Hofer capacities from positive S^1 equivariant symplectic homology. - 04/11/2025 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Siqi He (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
On some properties of Z2 eigenvalues on round two sphere.
October 2025
- 27/10/2025 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Viktor Majewski (Berlin)
Spin(7)-Orbifold Resolutions. - 13/10/2025 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Jakob Stein (IMPA Rio de Janeiro)
Nearly G2-structures and G2-Laplacian co-flows. - 06/10/2025 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Klaus Kröncke (Stockholm)
On the volume-renormalized mass.
September 2025
- 29/09/2025 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Jason Lotay (Oxford)
The heterotic SU(3) moduli space. - 22/09/2025 14h Salle des Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Spandan Ghosh (Oxford).
Lagrangian mean curvature flow out of conical singularities.
Latest news for the geometry seminar
- Tommaso Pacini to speak in geometry seminar 15/06/26 - Tommaso Pacini (Turin) will speak in the geometry seminar at 2pm on 15th June in the Salle des Profs (9th floor building NO). Tommao’s title is “Anisotropic calibrations, adiabatic limits and mirror symmetry” and his abstract is below. Hope to see you there!
- Rodion Déev to talk in geometry seminar 8/06/26 - Our very own Rodion Déev will speak in the geometry seminar on Monday 8th June at 2pm in the Salle des Profs (9th floor of building NO). Rodion’s title is “Holomorphic families of knots” and his abstract is below. Hope to see you there!
- Anna Roig-Sanchis to speak in geometry seminar 25/05/2026 - AnnaRoig-Sanchis (Nice) will speakin the geometry seminar on 25th May. Anna’s title is “Minimal surfaces with negative curvature in large dimensional spheres” and her abstract is below. Anna’s talk will be at 2pm in the Salle des Profs (9th floor of building NO). There will be a second geometry seminar afterwards, given by Gonzalo Cao. […]
- Andries Salm to speak in geometry seminar 18/05/26 - The geometry seminar on 18th May will be given by our very own Andries Salm. The talk will be at 2pm in the Salle des Profs (9th floor of building NO). Andries’s title is “Metric perturbations of degenerate Z/2-harmonic 1-forms” and his abstract is below.
- Gonzalo Cao to talk in geometry seminar 25/05/26 - Gonzalo Cao will talk in the geometry seminar at 3.15pm on 25th May in the Salle des Profs on the 9th floor of building NO as (part of a double bill of geometry talks, with Anna Roig-Sanchez talking at 2pm). Gonzalo’s title is “The Schiffer conjecture on the half-sphere” and his title is below.