Seminars and Working Groups
Geometry and Topology Seminar - Organised by Vestislav Apostolov
Normally the Seminar is held Fridays at 11:00 AM in room PK-5115, Président-Kennedy Building, UQAM. All changes are indicated.
- October 4, 2019 == Maxence Mayrand, Oxford
TBA - October 4, 2019, 10h00 == Georges Dloussky, Marseille
TBA - September 27, 2019 == Gerard Freixas, Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu
TBA - September 20, 2019 == Michael Brandenbursky, Ben-Gurion University
TBA - September 20, 2019 == Jen Hom, Georgia Tech
TBA - September 13, 2019 == Artem Kotelskiy
TBA - September 6, 2019 == David Calderbank, Bath
TBA - September 6, 2019 at 10:00 == Ian Zemke, Princeton
TBA - August 23, 2019 == Shu-Cheng Chang, National Taiwan University
Yau’s Uniformization Conjecture in Sasakian Manifolds
2018-19
- May 10, 2019 == Xi Chen, University of Alberta
Rational curves on K3 surfaces - May 3, 2019 == Fangyang Zheng, Ohio State
Strominger connection and pluriclosed metrics - CANCELLED - May 3, 2019, 10:00 == Pierre Will, Université de Grenoble
Spherical CR uniformisations of 3-manifolds - April 26, 2019 == Carlo Gasbarri, Strasbourg
Transcendental Liouville inequality and rational points on disks - April 12, 2019 == Peter Feller, ETH
Moebius bands in B3xS1 and the square peg problem - March 29, 2019 == Eric Bahuaud, Seattle University
Ricci flow of asymptotically hyperbolic metrics - March 22, 2019 == Liangming Shen, CIRGET
The Kahler-Ricci flow with log canonical singularities - March 15, 2019 == Brent Pym, McGill
Multiple zeta values in deformation quantization - February 22, 2019 == Jonah Gaster, McGill
Computing discrete harmonic maps between hyperbolic surfaces - February 15, 2019, 10:00 == Brett Kotschwar, Arizona State University
The determination of a shrinking Ricci soliton from its geometry at infinity - February 15, 2019 == Éveline Legendre, Toulouse
L’invariant de Futaki et la fonctionnelle d’Einstein-Hilbert - Wednesday, February 13, 2019, CANCELLED == Wenhao Ou, UCLA
La géométrie birationnelle des variétés kaehleriennes - Wednesday, February 6, 2019, 11h00 == Kiumars Kaveh, University of Pittsburgh
Convexity in algebraic geometry and symplectic geometry - January 25, 2019 == Cyril Lecuire, Toulouse
Représentations kleiniennes - January 18, 2019 == Duncan McCoy, UT Austin
Dehn surgery on knots in S3 - Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 11:00 == Julien Keller, Marseille
Quantification géométrique et applications à différents problèmes de géométrie complexe - January 11, 2019 == Baptiste Chantraine, Nantes
Sous-variétés lagrangiennes des variétés de Weinstein - January 11, 2019, 10:00 == Christine Guenther, Pacific University
Convergence Stability of the Ricci Flow - December 14, 2018 == Frédéric Campana, Université de Lorraine, Nancy
Criterion for algebraicity of foliations, applications - December 7, 2018 == Eric Woolgar, University of Alberta
Conditions of curvature-dimension type in relativity and Lorentzian geometry - December 7, 2018, 10:00 == Marcin Sabok, McGill University
Circle squaring and actions of Zn - November 30, 2018 == Charles Doran, University of Alberta
Classification and Applications of K3 Surface Fibered Calabi-Yau Threefolds - November 16, 2018 == Joey van der leer Duran, University of Toronto
Hodge decompositions for Lie algebroids on manifolds with boundary - November 9, 2018 == Daniel Alvarez-Gavela, IAS Princeton, The multi-parametric Reidemeister theorem and higher homotopy
groups of the space of Legendrian knots in the standard contact 3-space - November 2, 2018 == Curtis Porter, North Carolina State
Nondegeneracy in CR Geometry - October 12, 2018 == Georges Dloussky, Université Aix-Marseille
How to prove the GSS conjecture? - October 5, 2018 == Dmitry Faifman, Université de Montréal
Lipschitz-Killing curvatures in pseudo-Riemannian and contact manifolds - September 28, 2018 == Jeffrey Streets, University of California, Irvine
Pluriclosed flow and geometrization of complex surfaces - September 27, 2018 == Casey Lynn Kelleher, Princeton
Symplectic curvature flow revisited
Geometric Group Theory Seminar - Organised by Macarena Covadonga Robles Arenas, Sami Douba, Nima Hoda, Piotr Przytycki, Daniel Wise
Wednesdays at 3:00 PM, Burnside Hall, room 920, McGill
- April 10, 2019 == Leonid Potyagailo, Université de Lille
Martin and Floyd boundaries of finitely generated groups - April 3, 2019 == Joshua Greene, Boston College
On loops intersecting at most once - March 27, 2019 == Steven Boyer, UQAM
Deforming foliations in branched covers and the L-space conjecture - 20 mars 2019 == Alexandre Martin, Heriot-Watt University
The Tits alternative for two-dimensional Artin groups - March 13, 2019 == Piotr Przytycki, McGill University
Torsion groups do not act on 2-dimensional CAT(0) complexes - March 6, 2019 == Doron Puder, Tel Aviv University
Matrix integrals, graphs on surfaces, and mapping class group - February 27, 2019 == Sami Douba, McGill University
2-Systems of arcs on spheres with prescribed endpoints - February 20, 2019 == Hugh Thomas, UQAM
Parking functions via piecewise-linear transformations of Rm - February 6, 2019 == Zachary Munro, McGill
Weak Modularity and Euclidean Buildings - January 30, 2019 == Dani Wise, McGill
Bicollapsibility and groups with torsion - January 23, 2019 == Michael Lipnowski, McGill
Geometry of the smallest 1-form Laplacian eigenvalue on hyperbolic manifolds - January 16, 2019 == Nima Hoda, McGill
Constructing bisimplices - January 9, 2019 == Jonah Gaster, McGill
Computing discrete harmonic maps between hyperbolic surfaces - December 12, 2018 == Jacek Świątkowski, University of Wrocław)
Topological characterization of boundaries of free products of groups - Thursday, December 6, 2018, room 920 == Jingyin Huang, Ohio State University
Quasi-isometric rigidity of 2-dimensional Artin groups - November 28, 2018 == Matthew Haulmark, Vanderbilt University
Non-hyperbolic groups with Menger curve boundary - November 21, 2018 == Tomasz Prytuła, Max Planck Institute
Classifying space for proper actions for groups admitting a strict fundamental domain - November 14, 2018 == Valentina Disarlo, Heidelberg University
Cubical geometry in the polygonalization complex - November 7, 2018 == Timothée Marquis, Université Catholique de Louvain
On geodesic ray bundles in buildings - October 31, 2018 == Ilya Gekhtman, University of Toronto
Growth rates of invariant random subgroups in negative curvature - October 24, 2018 == Marcin Sabok, McGill University
The Hrushovski property for hypertournaments and profinite topologies - October 17, 2018 == Camille Horbez, Université Paris-Sud
Growth under automorphisms of hyperbolic groups - October 10, 2018 == Macarena Covadonga Robles Arenas, McGill University
Measuring complexity of curves on surfaces - October 4, 2018, 16:00 == Ruth Charney, Brandeis University
A geometric approach to Artin groups - October 3, 2018 == Daniel Woodhouse, Technion
Revisiting Leighton’s graph covering theorem - September 26, 2018 == Giulio Tiozzo, University of Toronto
Random walks and WPD actions - September 19, 2018 == Florestan Brunck, McGill University
Non-Obtuse Dissection of Tetrahedra - September 12, 2018 == Yann Pequignot, McGill University
An introduction to Borel chromatic numbers - September 5, 2018 == Damian Osajda, University of Wrocław
Two-dimensional Artin groups and metric systolicity
Symplectic Seminar - Organised by: Octav Cornea and Egor Shelukhin
The seminar meets on Fridays, from 1:40 to 2:40 at UQAM, room PK-5115. All changes are indicated.
- April 12, 2019 == Egor Shelukhin, Université de Montréal
Viterbo conjecture revisited - April 5, 2019 == Emmanuel Giroux, UMI CNRS-CRM
From Morse functions to symplectic Lefschetz fibrations on cotangent bundles - March 29, 2019 == Jeff Hicks, Berkeley
Wall Crossing and Lagrangian Cobordisms - March 22, 2019 == Baptiste Chantraine, Nantes and UMI-CNRS
Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrian submanifolds and Lagrangian surgeries (continued) - March 15, 2019 == Nicholas Wilkins, Oxford/MIT
Quantum and Floer Steenrod squares - March 1, 2019 == Baptiste Chantraine, Nantes and UMI-CNRS
Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrian submanifolds and Lagrangian surgeries - February 15, 2019 == Brent Pym, McGill
Holonomic Poisson manifolds - February 8, 2019 == Basak Gurel, U Central Florida, Orlando
Dynamics of Hamiltonian pseudo-rotations - February 1, 2019, 14:40 == Gael Meigniez, U de Bretagne-Sud
A proof of the Mather-Thurston theorem - February 1, 2019 == Alexandre Perrier, Université de Montréal
Lagrangian cobordism groups of surfaces of genus higher than one - January 25, 2019 == Egor Shelukhin, Université de Montréal
Viterbo conjecture for Zoll symmetric spaces - December 7, 2018 == Alexandre Perrier, Université de Montréal
Lagrangian cobordism groups of surfaces of genus higher than one - November 30, 2018 == Egor Shelukhin, Université de Montréal
Viterbo conjecture for Zoll symmetric spaces - November 16, 2018 == Amiel Peiffer-Smadja, Nantes
Functoriality of the Open-Closed map - November 9, 2018 == Caitlin Leverson, Georgia Institute of Technology
- October 26, 2018 == Baptiste Chantraine, Nantes et UMI CNRS - CRM
Categories associated to Legendrian links II - October 12, 2018, 14:35 == Jeremy Lane, University of Geneva
Gelfand-Zeitlin, Ginzburg-Weinstein, and partial tropicalization - October 12, 2018, 13:30 == Dan Rutherford, Ball State University
Immersed Lagrangian cobordisms and augmentations - September 28, 2018 == Michael Sullivan, UMASS Amherst and CRM
Cellular contact homology, augmentations and generating families for Legendrian surfaces - September 21, 2018 == Baptiste Chantraine, Nantes et UMI CNRS - CRM
Categories associated to Legendrian links
Working Groups 2018-19
- Tuesdays
10:00 - 12:00 == Working Group in low-dimensional topology
PK-5675, UQAM. Organizers: Steven Boyer and Biji Wong - Mondays
1:30 - 3:30 == Kähler Geometry Working Group
PK-5675, UQAM. Organizer: Lars Sektnan