Seminars and Working Groups

Geometry and Topology Seminar - Organized by Julien Keller and Duncan McCoy

Normally the Seminar is held Fridays at 11:00 AM in room PK-5115, Président-Kennedy Building, UQAM. All changes are indicated. As of May 8, 2020, the CIRGET Seminar meets virtually.
Zoom link: https://uqam.zoom.us/j/98999725241

  • October 16, 2020 == Yi Ni, CalTech
    Seifert fibered surgeries on hyperbolic fibered knots
  • October 9, 2020 == Christina Tonnesen-Friedman, Union College
    Sasaki-Einstein metrics and the Iterated join
  • October 2, 2020 == Junyan Cao, Université de Nice
    On the Ohsawa-Takegoshi extension theorem
  • September 25, 2020 == Jonathan Johnson, University of Texas at Austin
    Bi-Orderability and Pretzel Knots - talk
  • September 18, 2020 ==Carlo Scarpa, SISSA
    The Hitchin-cscK system - slides and talk
  • September 11, 2020 == Andrew Lobb, University of Durham
    The rectangular peg problem

CIRGET Junior Seminar - Organized by Carlos Valero, Dominique Rathel-Fournier and Simon Jubert

This Seminar is organized by and for graduate students. It is held on Wednesdays at 2:00 PM.
Zoom Link: https://uqam.zoom.us/j/97486895845

  • October 21, 2020 == Aidan Lindberg, McGill
    TBA
  • October 14, 2020 == Quentin Karegar, Unidad Cuernavaca Instituto de Matemáticas
    TBA
  • October 7, 2020 == Bart Syroka, McGill
    TBA
  • September 30, 2020 == Carlos Valero, McGill
    An Introduction to the Calderon Problem
  • September 23, 2020 == Dominique Rathel-Fournier, Université de Montréal
    From curves on surfaces to Lagrangian topology
  • September 16, 2020 == Simon Jubert, UQAM
    A Yau-Tian-Donaldson correspondence on toric Kahler manifolds

Geometric Group Theory Seminar - Organized by Sami Douba

The seminar is held on Wednesdays at 3:00 PM
Zoom ID: 989 1072 6246
Password: delta
Link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/98910726246?pwd=VHlzTzdTZGtqcHVuWGNKdys4d0FzQT09

  • September 30, 2020 == Duncan McCoy, UQAM
    Characterizing slopes for torus knots and hyperbolic knots
  • September 23, 2020 == Michael Lipnowski, McGill University
    Algorithms for building grids
  • September 16, 2020 == Mikołaj Frączyk, University of Chicago
    Growth of mod-p homology in higher rank lattices
  • September 9, 2020 == Sam Shepherd, University of Oxford
    Quasi-isometric rigidity of generic cyclic HNN extensions of free groups

Symplectic Seminar - Organized by: Octav Cornea and Egor Shelukhin

The seminar meets by ZOOM on Fridays at 9:15. The new Symplectic Zoominar is co-organized with Princeton/IAS, Tel Aviv and Paris.
Main ZOOM link:
https://umontreal.zoom.us/j/94366166514?pwd=OHBWcGluUmJwMFJyd2IwS1ROZ0FJdz09
Backup/alternate link:
https://theias.zoom.us/j/98165917888?pwd=bitwUVFVdjdVb1F3OTZTQTNqWHJjUT09"

  • December 11, 2020 == Basak Gurel, University of Central Florida
    TBA
  • December 4, 2020 == Eva Miranda, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
    TBA
  • November 27, 2020 == Three 20 min research talks.
    TBA
  • November 20, 2020 == Paul Biran, ETH, Zürich
    TBA
  • November 13, 2020 == Nick Sheridan, Edinburgh
    TBA
  • November 6, 2020 == Kai Cieliebak, Augsburg
    TBA
  • October 30, 2020 == Simon Allais (ENS Lyon), Orsola Capovilla-Searle (Duke), Julian Chaidez (UCB)
    TBA
  • October 23, 2020 == Michael Hutchings, Berkeley
    TBA
  • October 16, 2020 == Umut Varolgunes, Stanford
    TBA
  • October 9, 2020 == Lev Buhovsky, Tel Aviv
    TBA
  • October 2, 2020 == Dusa McDuff, Columbia
    Embedding ellipsoids into the one-point blowup of $\C P^2$
  • September 25, 2020 == Jun Zhang, Montreal
    Triangulated persistence categories
  • September 18, 2020 == Cheol-Hyun Cho, Seoul
    Fukaya category for Landau-Ginzburg orbifolds and Berglund-Hübsch
    homological mirror symmetry for curve singularities
  • September 11, 2020 == Vincent Colin, Nantes
    Reeb dynamics in dimension 3 and broken book decompositions
  • September 4, 2020 == Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell, Uppsala
    Hamiltonian classification and unlinkedness of fibres in cotangent bundles of Riemann surfaces

Working Groups 2019-20