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.

  • January 16, 2026 == Jérôme Vétois, McGill
    Nonexistence of extremals for the second conformal eigenvalue in low dimensions
  • December 5, 2025 == Junsheng Zhang, NYU Courant
    Diameter lower bounds for the Kähler–Ricci flow at finite-time singularities
  • November 28, 2025 == Tristan Collins, University of Toronto
    Complete Calabi-Yau Manifolds and Optimal Transportation
  • November 21, 2025 == Shi-Kai Chiu, University of California, Irvine
    Lagrangian submanifolds from tropical-like data
  • November 17, 2025 at 2:00 pm, room PK-5675 == Steven Rayan, University of Saskatchewan
    Hyperbolic Band Structures and Moduli Spaces
  • November 7, 2025 == Octav Cornea, Université de Montréal
    Approximability and Gromov width of Lagrangians
  • October 24, 2025 == Christophe Mourougane, Université de Rennes
    Jet differentials and applications
  • October 17, 2025 == Dylan Cant, Université de Montréal
    Equivariant quantum cohomology for Lagrangian submanifolds
  • October 3, 2025 == Mike Roth, Queen’s
    Reduced Čech complexes and computing higher direct images under toric fibrations
  • September 19, 2025 == Changjie Chen, Université de Montréal
    Morse theory on moduli spaces
  • September 5, 2025 == Cameron Gordon, Univ. of Texas, Austin
    The Unknotting Problem for Surfaces in the 4-sphere

Geometric Group Theory Seminar - Organized by William Chong, Katherine Goldman, Christopher Karpinski, Carl Kristof-Tessier, Jean Pierre Mutanguha and Piotr Przytycki

The seminar is held on Wednesdays at 4:00 PM in 1104 Burnside Hall, McGill

  • January 21, 2026 == William Chong, McGill
    TBA
  • January 14, 2026 == Katherine Goldman, McGill
    Curvature of located complexes
  • December 10, 2025 == Jon McCammond, UC Santa Barbara
    Reflection groups beyond Coxeter groups
  • November 26, 2025 == Jingyin Huang, The Ohio State University
    Exotic aspherical 4-manifolds
  • November 19, 2025 == Corey Bregman, Tufts University
    On a generalization of Cannon’s conjecture for cubulated hyperbolic groups
  • November 12, 2025 == Chloé Postel-Vinay, University of Chicago
    k-shuffle braid groups
  • November 5, 2025 == Catherine Pfaff, Queen’s University
    A “cubist” decomposition of the Handel-Mosher axis bundle
  • October 29, 2025 == Carl Kristof-Tessier, McGill University
    The Parallel Wall Theorem for CAT(0) even 2-complexes
  • October 22, 2025 == Dani Wise, McGill University
    Residually finite groups that do not virtually have the unique product property
  • October 8, 2025 == Jérémy Perazzelli, Université de Montréal
    The length spectrum of triangular surfaces
  • October 1, 2025 == Dani Wise, McGill University
    Cubical Quotients and Nonproducts
  • September 24, 2025 == Maxwell Plummer, Rice University
    Axis bundles in free-by-cyclic groups
  • September 23, 2025, 11:30 am, BURN 920 == Zhaoshen Zhai, McGill University
    Extension properties and separability of groups: a connection between model theory and profinite topologies
  • September 17, 2025 == Fabricio Dos Santos, McGill University
    Garside shadows and biautomatic structures in Coxeter groups
  • September 10, 2025 == Abdul Zalloum, Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics of HIT
    Globally stable cylinders and fine structures for hyperbolic groups
  • September 3, 2025 == Koichi Oyakawa, McGill University
    Hyperfiniteness of the boundary action of virtually special groups

CIRGET Junior Seminar - Organized by Egor Morozov, Giovanny Soto, Emanuele Ronda and Boris Zupancic

Time to be determined, PK-5675, UQAM

  • December 4, 2025, 5:00pm == Carl Kristof, McGill
    Lie groups, lattices, and Property (T)
  • November 27, 2025, 5:00pm == Louis Massonnet, UQAM
    An a priori estimate in Yau’s proof of Calabi conjecture
  • November 20, 2025, 5:00pm == Kuan-Hui Lee, McGill/UQAM
    Basic results in generalized geometry
  • November 12, 2025, 3:30pm == Houari Benammar Ammar, University of Alberta
    On basepoint-freeness of adjoint linear systems
  • October 31, 2025, 5pm == Aleksandr Trufanov, Université de Montreal
    Highest Weight Vectors in Coset Decomposition
  • October 24, 2025, 5pm == Mohamed Moussadek Maiza, Université de Sherbrooke
    Deformation of quasi-Hamiltonian spaces
  • October 9, 2025, 5pm == Louis-Simon Cyr, University of Southern California
    Cohomology of Almost Complex Manifolds

Algebraic Geometry Seminar - Organized by Brent Pym, Jake Levinson, Steven Lu and Joel Kamnitzer

The seminar is held on Wednesdays at 2:00 pm, PK-5675, UQAM

  • January 14, 2026 == Aleksei Ilin
    Trigonometric holonomy Lie algebra and its applications
  • December 17, 2025 == Vadim Vologodsky, University of Toronto
    Fedosov quantization in positive and mixed characteristic
  • November 26, 2025 == Daniel Litt, University of Toronto
    p-curvature and non-abelian cohomology
  • November 12, 2025 == Ilya Dumanski, MIT
    Perverse coherent sheaves and quantum loop group
  • October 29, 2025 == Nick Rozenblyum, Toronto
    Integrable systems and hamiltonian flows on moduli spaces
  • October 22, 2025, 2:00 pm == Stephen McKean, Brigham Young University
    Inverse curve problems for del Pezzo surfaces
  • October 22, 2025, 1:00 pm == Zinovy Reichstein, UBC
    Splitting central simple algebras by genus 1 curves
  • October 1, 2025 == George Lusztig, MIT
    Total positivity in the space of maximal tori
  • September 24, 2025 == Harold Williams, USC
    Dimer Models and Tropical Lagrangian Coamoebae

Symplectic Seminar

The Symplectic Zoominar, co-organized with Princeton/IAS, Tel Aviv and Paris, meets on Fridays at 9:15. The local Symplectic seminar is held on Fridays at 1:30 PM at the CRM, room 4336.

Geometric Analysis Seminar - Organized by Pengfei Guan, Jérôme Vétois and Alina Stancu

The seminar is held on Thursdays at 3:00 PM in 1214 Burnside Hall, McGill

Working Group in complex geometry - Organized by Kuan-Hui Lee

The working group meets Tuesdays from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM in PK-5675, UQAM