Geometry and Topology Research Group

Geometry and Topology Seminar: List of Speakers

Organizers Benoit Charbonneau Shengda Hu Spiro Karigiannis David McKinnon Ruxandra Moraru Doug Park Matt Satriano

The seminar is generally held Fridays from 2:30 to 3:20 in MC 5403.


The Bridges lectures occur on October 25, November 8, February 7, and March 13. These do not conflict with the geometry and topology seminar, but are included on this page because they may affect visit planning. Click here for more information on the Bridges lectures.

Date	Speaker	Title
September 6	. .	.
September 13	. .	.
September 20	. .	.
September 27	. .	.
October 4	Fenglong You University of Alberta	Structures of relative Gromov-Witten theory
October 11 1:30pm	Gabriel Islambouli University of Waterloo	Smooth 4-manifolds and the Pants Complex
October 18	READING WEEK .	.
October 25	Bridges lecture in the evening	.
November 1	. .	.
November 8	Bridges lecture in the evening	.
November 15	. .	.
November 22	. .	.
Thursday, November 28 1:30pm	Artour Tomberg Western University	Irreducible vector bundles on hyperkähler twistor spaces
November 29 1:30pm	Will Rushworth McMaster University	Ascent concordance
December 6	. .	.
December 13	Jeremy Usatine Brown University	TBA
January 10	. .	.
January 17	. .	.
January 24	Xi Sisi Shen Northwestern University	Estimates for metrics of constant Chern scalar curvature
January 31	Andrew Staal University of Waterloo	TBA
February 7 10:00-11:00am MC 5479	Sergey Cherkis University of Arizona	Compactification of Monopole Moduli Spaces
February 14	. .	.
February 21	READING WEEK .	.
February 28	Michael Klug UC Berkeley	Concordance of homotopic spheres in 4-manifolds
March 6	Gavin Ball CRM and UQAM	Closed G2-structures inducing a conformally flat metric
March 13	Bridges lecture in the evening	.
March 20	CANCELLED CANCELLED	CANCELLED
March 27	Michael Albanese UQAM	Almost Complex Structures on Rational Homology Spheres
April 3	. .	.
April 10	Yohsuke Matsuzawa University of Tokyo	TBA
April 17	. .	.
April 24	. .	.