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Previous reading seminars at the ULB

Here you can find a list of all the geometry reading seminars which have taken place at the ULB since 2015. The main reading seminar page contains the schedule for the current term.

Microlocal sheaves and symplectic topology, November 2016 – June 2017

A selection of some of the talks are here, but unfortunately not all were put on the website…

February 2017

  • 9/02/2017 11h00-12h30, Salle de Profs, 9th floor buidling NO
    Misha Verbitsky
    D-modules, singular support and constructible sheaves
  • 2/02/2017 11h00-12h30, Salle de Profs, 9th floor buidling NO
    Roman Golovko
    The definition of microlocal support of a sheaf, part 2.

January 2017

  • 19/01/2017 11h00-12h30, Salle de Profs, 9th floor buidling NO
    Roman Golovko
    Derived functors and the definition of microsupport of a sheaf

December 2016

  • 6/12/16 9h30-10h45, Salle de Profs, 9th floor building NO.
    Roman Golovko
    An introduction to sheaves, part 2.

November 2016

  • 29/11/16 9h30-10h45, Salle de Profs, 9th floor building NO.
    Roman Golovko
    An introduction to sheaves.
  • 15/11/16 9h30-10h45, Salle de Profs, 9th floor building NO.
    Misha Verbitsky
    Derived categories

General geometry talks, September-October 2016

October 2016

  • 04/10/16 14h-16h, Salle de Profs, 9th floor NO
    Patrick Weber
    From complex to hypercomplex cohomologies

September 2016

  • 30/09/16, 10h-12h, Geometry Seminar Room, 7th flor NO
    Roman Golovko
    A gentle introduction to Legendrian submanifolds towards Arnold-type estimates, part 2.
  • 20/09/16, 10h-12h, Salle de Profs, 9th floor NO
    Roman Golovko
    A gentle introduction to Legendrian submanifolds towards Arnold-type estimates
  • 13/09/16, 11h-13h, Salle de Profs, 9th floor NO
    Joel Fine
    An introduction to twistor spaces

Lower bounds on Ricci curvature, “classical theory,” February – March 2016

March 2016

  • 02/03/16, 10h30-12h30, Salle de Profs, 9th floor NO
    Lower Ricci working group, talk 4. Ben Sibley.
    Cheng-Yau gradient estimate, quantitative maximum principles, existence of special cut-off functions.
  • 09/03/16, 10h-12h, Salle de Profs, 9th floor NO
    Lower Ricci working group, talk 5. Michael Khanevsky.
    Almost splitting theorem.
  • 16/03/16, No talk this week!
  • 23/03/16, No talk this week!
  • 30/03/16, 10h30-12h30, Salle de Profs, 9th floor NO
    Lower Ricci working group, talk 6. Bruno Premoselli.
    Almost volume cones and almost metric cones, Reifenberg’s method, tangent cones at infinity.

February 2016

  • 10/02/16, 11h-13h, Salle de Profs, 9th floor NO
    Lower Ricci working group, talk 1. Joel Fine
    Gromov-Hausdorf distance and Gromov’s precompactness theorem for metric spaces,
  • 17/02/16, 11h-13h, Salle de Profs, 9th floor NO
    Lower Ricci working group, talk 2. Joel Fine.
    Bochner formula, Laplacian comparison, Bishop-Gromov volume comparison, Gromov precompactness for manifolds with lower bounds on Ricci.
  • 24/02/16, 10h30-12h30, Salle de Profs, 9th floor NO
    Lower Ricci working group, talk 3. Bruno Premoselli.
    Global Laplacian comparison, strong maximum principle, Cheeger-Gromoll splitting theorem.

Presentations of articles, September – October 2015

October 2015

  • 06/10/15, 14h-15h30, Salle des Profs, 9th floor NO.
    Desingularisation of Einstein metrics, I, by Biquard.
    Presented by Patrick Weber

September 2015

  • 08/09/15, 14h-15h30, NO.8.08.
    Harmonic mappings of Riemannian manifolds, by Eells-Salamon
    Presented by Chengjian Yao
  • 23/09/15, 11h-12h30, Salle des Profs, 9th floor, NO.
    Renormalized area and properly embedded minimal surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds, by Alexakis-Mazzeo
    Presented by Michael Khanevsky

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Département de mathématiques
Université libre de Bruxelles CP 218
Boulevard du Triomphe, Bruxelles 1050,
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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 page has a map of the campus as well as information on how to reach it via public transport. 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.

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.

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