Seminars

Geometry and Topology Seminar - Organised by Steven Lu

Normally the Seminar is held Fridays at 11:00 AM in room PK-5115, Président-Kennedy Building, UQAM. All changes are indicated.
Date Speaker University Title
9 septembre 2011 * 10h00 Tatsuki Hayama Osaka University/Taiwan National University Admissible normal functions and related topics
9 septembre 2011 * 11h00 Hongnian Huang McGill/UQAM The Ricci flow and the Calabi flow
16 septembre 2011 Eveline Legendre CAMGSD Generalized Kähler-Ricci soliton with Hamiltonian 2-form
23 septembre 2011 Kirill Zaynullin University of Ottawa The Grothendieck gamma-filtration on projective homogeneous varieities
30 septembre 2011 Fabrizio Donzelli CRM/UQAM Algebraic density property of Danilov-Gizatullin surfaces
12 octobre 2011 Paolo Ghiggini Université de Nantes/CNRS On the isomorphism between Heegaard Floer homology and embedded contact homology
14 octobre 2011 JongHae Keum KIAS, Korea Algebraic Montgomery-Yang problem: algebraic surfaces and circle actions on 5-spheres
21 octobre 2011 *PK-4323 Egor Shelukhin Tel-Aviv University Moment maps and quasimorphisms
4 novembre 2011 Rasul Shafikov University of Western Ontario Lagrangian immersions, polynomial convexity, and Whitney umbrellas
11 novembre 2011 Bun Wong University of Riverside Curvature and rational connectivity on projective manifold
18 novembre 2011 Xi Chen University of Alberta Rational self maps of quintic 3-folds and Clemens' conjecture
25 novembre 2011 Piotr Przytycki University of Warsaw Graph manifolds with boundary are virtually special
2 décembre 2011, salle PK-4323 Ina Petkova Columbia University Bordered Floer homology and applications to knot concordance
le mercredi 14 décembre 2011 Cameron Gordon University of Texas at Austin Unsolvable problems about higher-dimensional knot groups
16 décembre 2011 Alan Huckleberry Rhur University, Bohum, Germany Flag domains and their cycle spaces
13 janvier 2012 Jacques Hurtubise McGill Grassmann-framed bundles on a Riemann surface
20 janvier 2012 Ljudmila Kamenova Stony Brook Hyper-Kahler fibrations
20 janvier 2012, 14h Jason Starr Stony Brook When are Gromov-Witten invariants "enumerative"?
3 février 2012 Alejandro Adem UBC Equivariant K-theory for Actions with Maximal Rank Isotropy
mercredi, 8 février 2012 Joseph Malkoun Stony Brook Hyperkähler Manifolds and Quaternionic Killing Fields
jeudi, 9 février 2012, 16h00 Michel Vaquier Université de Toulouse Structures symplectiques dans le cadre de la géométrie algébrique dérivée
10 février 2012 Ludmil Katzarkov University of Miami and University of Vienna From Higgs Bundles to Stability Conditions
17 février 2012 Raphaël Ponge Seoul National University The logarithmic singularities of the Green functions of the conformal powers of the Laplacian
24 février 2012 Octav Cornea Université de Montréal What is beneath the Fukaya category ?
2 mars 2012 Iosif Polterovich Université de Montréal TBA
2 mars 2012, 14h00 Bruno de Oliveira University of Miami TBA
9 mars 2012 Xiang Wen Zhang McGill TBA
16 mars 2012 Niky Kamran McGill TBA
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar - Organised by Karol Palka and Peter Russell

Tuesdays 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (Minimal Model Program seminar) Room PK-5445, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Wednesdays 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM (research talks), Room PK-5333
Date Speaker University Title
13 septembre 2011 Alok Maharana McGill Iitaka's virtual singularity theorem
27 septembre 2011 Alok Maharana McGill A proof of the Veys conjecture after Kojima and Steenbrink
4 octobre 2011 Steven Lu UQAM MMP: Simply connectedness of Fano varieties
5 octobre 2011 Behrouz Taji McGill MMP: Smooth surfaces
11 octobre 2011 Behrouz Taji McGill MMP: The cone theorem
18 octobre 2011 Karol Palka UQAM MMP: On contractiblity of curves on surfaces
25 octobre 2011 Behrouz Taji McGill MMP: Singularities and computations of the cone of effective curves for surfaces
25 octobre 2011 Behrouz Taji McGill MMP: Examples in two dimensions
1 novembre 2011 Behrouz Taji McGill MMP: Log surfaces and singularities
2 novembre 2011 Changlong Zhong University of Ottawa Comparison of Dualizing Complexes
8 novembre 2011 Karol Palka UQAM MMP: Singularities of the Minimal Model Program
15 novembre 2011 Karol Palka UQAM MMP: Singularities of the Minimal Model Program. Canonical singularities.
16 novembre 2011 Jing Zhou Sun Johns Hopkins University On the Demailly-Semple jet bundles of hypersurfaces in CP^3
22 novembre 2011 Karol Palka UQAM MMP: Singularities of the Minimal Model Program. What is log terminal?
23 novembre 2011 Haitao Liu University of New Brunswick Refined BPS Partition Function and Crystal Melting Model
29 novembre 2011 Karol Palka UQAM MMP: Two-dimensional log-terminal singularities
6 décembre 2011 Karol Palka UQAM MMP: Log-canonical singularities and their resolution graphs
18 janvier 2012 Pinaki Mondal University of Toronto Compactifications of C^2
vendredi, 10 février 2012, 14h15 Karol Palka UQAM On the Coolidge-Nagata conjecture (part 1)
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Triangulated categories seminar - Organised by Andre Joyal and Mathieu Anel

13:30-15:30, Room PK-5115, Pavillon Président-Kennedy, UQAM
Date Speaker University Title
4 novembre 2010 Mathieu Anel Cirget Introduction
11 novembre 2010 Mathieu Anel Cirget Contructions homotopiques en algèbre homologique
18 novembre 2010 Mathieu Anel Cirget Suite longue des cofibres et triangles
9 décembre 2010 Mathieu Anel Cirget Structure triangulée de la catégorie des complexes à homotopie près
17 février 2011 Mathieu Anel Cirget Localisation de catégories triangulées et calcul des fractions
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Symplectic Topology Seminar

The seminar meets on Mondays, from 3:00 to 4:00 at Université de Montréal, room 4336 AA.

CIRGET Junior Seminar - Organised by: Ben Smith and Kael Dixon

Thursdays, 3:00 PM, Room BURN-920, Burnside Hall, McGill
Date Speaker University Title
9 novembre 2011 Benjamin Smith McGill Classifying spaces and universal bundles
16 novembre 2011 Kael Dixon McGill Symmetries of Hermitian Manifolds
23 novembre 2011 Hadi Bigdely McGill Quasiconvexity and relatively hyperbolic groups that split
30 novembre 2011 Benjamin Smith McGill Singular Hermitian-Einstein monopoles
18 janvier 2012 François Charest Université de Montréal The Stasheff associahedra in geometry and topology
25 janvier 2012 Brian Seguin McGill An Introduction to Differential Chains: a new way of integrating
1er février 2012 Artour Tomberg McGill Lax equations and line bundles
9 février 2012 Ben Smith McGill Bundles over real algebraic curves
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