This page contains a record of the geometry seminars held at the ULB, starting in September 2015. You can find the schedule for the current semester here.
June 2018
- 19/06/18. 13h30-14h30 Salle de Profs, 9th floor, building NO.
Romain Pétrides (Paris Diderot University, France)
Romain’s seminar, initially planned for the 5th of June, has been moved to the 19th
Min-Max construction for free boundary minimal disks
May 2018
- 22/05/18. 13h30-14h30 Salle de Profs, 9th floor, building NO.
Giovanni Catino (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Einstein metrics and Ricci solitons - 08/05/18. 13h30-14h30 Salle de Profs, 9th floor, building NO.
Plinio Murillo (Universität Bern, Switzerland)
On arithmetic manifolds with large systole
April 2018
- 24/04/18. Double bill!
11h-12h Salle de Profs, 9th floor, building NO.
Milena Pabiniak (University of Cologne, Germany)
Understanding the contactomorphism group of lens spaces via a non-linear Maslov index
13h30-14h30 Salle de Profs, 9th floor, building NO.
Viviana del Barco (UNICAMP, Brasil and Université Paris Sud, France)
Hermitian geometry of real flag manifolds - 15/04/18: Milena Pabiniak’s talk, initially planned for the 15th of April, has been moved to the 24th of April.
- 03/04/18. 13h30-14h30 Salle de Profs, 9th floor, building NO.
Will Merry (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Title to be confirmed
March 2018
- 27/03/18. 13h30-14h30 Salle de Profs, 9th floor, building NO.
Jason Lotay (University College London)
Remarks on the self-shrinking Clifford torus - 13/03/18. 13h30-14h30 Salle de Profs, 9th floor, building NO.
Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Bulk-deformed augmentations do not correspond to sheaves - 06/03/18. 13h30-14h30 Salle de Profs, 9th floor, building NO.
Steven Sivek (Imperial College London, UK)
SU(2)-cyclic surgeries and the pillowcase
February 2018
- 20/02/18. 11h-12h Salle Solvay, 9th floor, building NO. Double bill this Tuesday
Alvaro de Pino Gómez (Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands)
Overtwisted Engel structures - 20/02/18. 13h30-14h30 Salle de Profs, 9th floor, building NO.
Michael Singer (University College London, United Kingdom)
Asymptotic geometry of monopole moduli space and the Sen Conjecture - 13/02/18. Unusual time 13h15-14h15 Salle de Profs, 9th floor, building NO.
Matthias Schötz (University of Würzburg, Germany)
From non-formal, non-C* deformation quantization to abstract O*-algebras - 08/02/18. 11h-12h Note unusual day and time! Salle de Profs, 9th floor building NO.
Yi Li (Luxembourg)
Local curvature estimates for Ricci-harmonic flow - 06/02/18. 13h30-14h30 Salle de Profs, 9th floor, building NO.
Dmitri Panov (Kings College London, United Kingdom)
Circle invariant symplectic hypersurfaces in dimension 6 and the Fano condition.
January 2018
- 30/01/18. 13h30-14h30 Salle de Profs, 9th floor, building NO.
Alberto Raffero (Università degli Studi di Firenze)
Symplectic half-flat 6-manifolds and the Laplacian G_2-flow - 23/01/18. 13h30-14h30 Salle de Profs, 9th floor, building NO.
Gaël Meigniez (Université Bretagne Sud)
Quasi-complementary foliations and the Mather-Thurston Theorem
December 2017
- 19/12/17. 13h30-14h30 Note unusual room! Room P.2NO.708, 7th floor, building NO.
Hông Van Lê (Czech Academy of Science, Prague)
Novikov homology and Novikov fundamental groups - 12/12/17. Double bill!
13h30-14h30 Salle de Profs, 9th floor, building NO.
Alix Deruelle (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France)
Expanders of the harmonic map flow
14h45-15h45 Salle de Profs, 9th floor, building NO.
Eleonora Di Nezza (IHES, France)
Complex Monge-Ampère equations with prescribed singularities - 07/12/17. Note unusual day and room! 13h30-14h30 Salle P.2NO.708, 7th floor, building NO.
Maÿlis Limouzineau (University of Cologne, Germany)
Constructions of Legendrian cobordisms and generating functions - 5/12/17. 13h30-14h30 Salle de Profs, 9th floor, building NO.
Reto Buzano (Queen Mary University, London, UK)
The moduli spaces of two-convex embedded spheres and tori
November 2017
- 24/11/17. 10h30-11h30 Note unusual day and time! Room to be confirmed.
Vincent Colin (Nantes, France)
Topological entropy of the Reeb vector field - 23/11/17. Note unusual day! 13h30-14h30 Salle de Profs, 9th floor, building NO.
César Lecoutre (ULB)
A new family of Poisson algebras and their deformations - 16/11/17. 13h30-14h30 Unforunately, Kai Cieliebak has had to cancel his visit because of a broken foot.
String topology and perturbative Chern-Simons theory - 14/11/17. 13h30-14h30 Salle de Profs, 9th floor, building NO.
Cristiano Spotti (Aarhus, Denmark)
Kähler-Einstein metrics via moduli continuity method. - 14/11/17. 14h45-15h45 Double bill this Tuesday! Salle de Profs, 9th floor, building NO.
Timothée Marquis (UCL, Belgium)
On continuous one-parameter subgroups of Kac-Moody groups
October 2017
- 24/10/17. 13h30-14h30, Salle des Profs, 9th floor, Building NO.
Lorenz Swachhöffer (TU Dortmund, Germany)
Parametrized measure models - 10/10/17. 10h30-11h30, Salle de Profs, 9th floor, building NO.
Ryosuke Takahashi (Tohoku, Japan)
A new parabolic flow approach to the Kähler-Einstein problem.
September 2017
- 19/09/17. 13h30-14h30, Salle de Profs, 9th floor, building NO.
Hsuan-Yi Liao (Penn State, USA)
Formality theorem for Lie pairs
June 2017
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20/06/17. 13h30-14h30 Salle des Profs, floor 9, building NO.
Ben Sibley (Simons Center, New York)
A complex analytic structure on the compactification of the moduli space of Hermitian-Yang-Mills connections on a projective manifold. - 07/06/17. 10h30-11h30 Please note unusual day! Room to be confirmed
Daniele Angella (Firenze)
Special metrics on complex manifolds.
May 2017
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30/05/17. 13h30-14h30 Salle des Profs, floor 9, building NO.
Sonja Hohloch (Antwerp)
Hyperkähler Floer homology -
23/05/17. 13h30-14h30 Salle des Profs, floor 9, building NO.
Giovanni Mascellani (Pisa)
Fourth-order geometric flows on manifolds with boundary -
16/05/2017. 11h-12h Salle des Profs, floor 9, building NO.
Stefan Waldmann (Univ. Würzburg)
Poisson structures and star products from Drinfel’d twist -
02/05/17. 13h30-14h30 Salle des Profs, floor 9, building NO.
Ralph Klaasse (Utrecht)
Constructing A-symplectic structures.
March 2017
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21/03/17. 14h00-15h00 Salle des Profs, floor 9, building NO.
Andriy Haydys (Bielefield)
Isolated singularities of affine special Kähler metrics in two dimensions. -
14/03/17. 13h30-14h30 Room to be confirmed.
Olivier Elchinger
Perturbation of formality for universal enveloping algebras
February 2017
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28/02/17. Double bill!
11h00-12h00 NO8.08, floor 8, building NO.
Dmitry Tonkonog (Uppsala)
Refined curve counts for immersed Lagrangians, with applications13h30-14h30 NO8.08, floor 8, building NO.
Geogrios Dimitroglou Rizell (Uppsala)
The wrapped Fukaya category of a Weinstein manifold is generated by the Lagrangian cocore discs. -
14/02/17. Double bill!
11h00-12h00 Salle des Profs, floor 9, building NO.
Nikon Kurnosov (Moscow)
Absolutely trianalytic tori in hyperkähler manifolds.13h30-14h30 O8.08, floor 8, building NO.
Dima Panov (King’s College London)
Real line arrangements with Hirzberuch property. -
8/02/17. 13h30-14h30 Salle des Profs, floor 9, building NO.
Liviu Ornea (Bucharest)
The canonical foliation of a Vaisman manifold.
January 2017
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24/01/17. 13h30-14h30 Salle de Solvay, floor 5, building NO.
Oliver Fabert (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
The Arnold conjecture in infinite dimensions.
December 2016
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12/12/16. 13h30-18h00. Salle des Profs, floor 9, building NO.
Workshop in differential geometry.
An afternoon of talks. For more details see this page.
November 2016
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15/11/16. 11am-12pm. Salle des Profs, floor 9, building NO.
Katya Amerik (Paris Sud – Orsay)
On the characteristic foliation of a smooth divisor in a holomorphic symplectic manifold. -
16/11/16. 13h30-14h30. Salle des Profs, floor 9, building NO.
Vladimir Fock
Teichmüller space as an example of a cluster variety. -
29/11/16. 11am-12pm. Salle des Profs, floor 9, building NO.
Kael Dixon (ULB)
Ambitoric 4-manifolds.
October 2016
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4/10/16. 11am-12pm. Salle des Profs, floor 9, building NO.
Zakarias Dyrefelt (Toulouse)
K-stability of constant scalar curvature Kähler manifolds -
11/10/16. Double bill!
2pm-3pm. Salle des Profs, floor 9, building NO.
Al Kasprzyck (Nottingham)
The combinatorics of mirror symmetry.
3.30pm-4.30pm. Salle des Profs, floor 9, building NO.
Lorenz Schwachhöfer (Dortmund)
Cohomological invariants of G2 and Spin(7) manifolds. -
18/10/16. 2pm-3pm. Salle des Profs, floor 9, building NO.
Jean-Marc Schlenker (Luxembourg)
The renormalized volume of quasifuchsian manifolds. -
25/10/16. 11am-12pm. Salle des Profs, floor 9, building NO.
Joeri Van der Veken (Leuven)
Lagrangian submanifolds of the homogeneous nearly Kähler S^3 x S^3
September 2016
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21/09/16. 2pm-3pm Salle des Profs, floor 9, building NO.
Damien Gayet (Grenoble)
Percolation of random nodal domains
June 2016
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14/06/16. 14h-15h Salle de Profs, 9th floor of building NO.
Stefan Waldmann (Univ. Würzburg)
An explicit construction of Drinfel’d twists
May 2016
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24/05/16. 14h-15h. Salle de Profs, 9th floor of building NO.
Alex Waldron (Stony Brook, New York).
Four-dimensional Yang-Mills flow.
March 2016
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01/03/16. 14h-15h. Salle de Profs, 9th floor of building NO.
Vincent Humilière (Jussieu, Paris).
A C^0 counter-example to the Arnold conjecture.
February 2016
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16/02/16. 14h-15h. Salle de Profs, 9th floor of building NO.
Thibaut Delcroit (Grenoble).
Kähler-Einstein metrics on group compactifications.
January 2016
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26/01/16. 14h-15h. Salle de Profs, 9th floor of building NO.
Éveline Legendre (University of Toulouse).
The Hilbert-Einstein functional and the Sasaki-Futaki invariant. -
27/01/16. 10h-11h. Salle de Profs, 9th floor of building NO.
Please note the unusual day and time!
Liviu Ornea (University of Bucharest).
Recent results in locally conformally symplectic geometry.
December 2015
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1/12/2015 14h-15h. Salle des Profs, 9th floor of building NO.
Michael Khanevsky (ULB)
Hofer’s metric and length specturm of symplectic surfaces -
8/12/15 Double bill!
14h-15h. Salle des Profs, 9th floor of building NO.
Roland Abuaf (IHES Paris)
Hyperkahler categories.
15h15-16h15. Salle des Profs 9th floor of building NO.
Ljudmila Kamenova (Stony Brook, New York)
On Kobayashi’s pseudometric of compact complex manifolds
November 2015
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3/11/15 14h-15h. O8.08, 8th floor of building NO.
Marco Zambon (KU Leuven)
Multisymplectic manifolds, homotopy moment maps, and conserved quantities. -
5/11/15 14h-15h, O8.08, 8th floor of building NO.
Kirill Krasnov (Nottingham)
A gauge-theoretic formalism for gravity. -
10/11/15 14h-15h. O8.08, 8th floor of building NO.
Nikon Kurnosov (Moscow)
Betti numbers of hyperkähler manifolds. -
17/11/15 14h-15h. Salle des Profs, 9th floor of building NO.
Hugues Auvray (Paris Sud, Orsay)
Extremal metrics of Poincaré type: asymptotic properties
October 2015
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12/10/15 14h-15h. Salle des Profs, 9th floor of building NO.
Liviu Ornea (University of Bucharest).
CR manifolds in locally conformally Kähler geometry -
20/10/15 14h-15h. O8.08, 8th floor of building NO.
Benoît Daniel (Université de Lorraine)
Minimal isometric immersions into $latex S^2\times \mathbf{R}$ and $latex H^2 \times \mathbf{R}$. -
27/10/15 14h-15h O8.08, 8th floor of building NO.
Dmitri Panov (Kings College)
Spherical metrics with conical singularities on $latex S^2$.
September 2015
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15/09/15 15h-16h. Salle des Profs, 9th floor of building NO.
François Laudenbach (Université de Nantes).
A doubling phenomenon in Morse-Novikov homology. -
29/09/15 14h-15h. Salle des Profs, 9th floor of building NO.
Jason Lotay (University College London)
The Laplacian flow in G2 geometry