Seminar archive
Geometry & Topology Seminar
September 2025–August 2026
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11Thu · MC 5403 | Marina LogaresUniversidad Complutense de Madrid | From Higgs Bundles to Integrable Systems: Examples from Geometry and Physics | Ruxandra |
| Sep 19 | Lorenzo SarnataroUniversity of Toronto | Index, Intersections, and Multiplicity of Min-Max Geodesics | Spiro |
| Oct 10 | Casey BlackerAugusta University | Geometric and algebraic reduction of multisymplectic manifolds | Spiro |
| Oct 17 | Reading Week | No seminar | — |
| Oct 24 | Nathaniel SagmanUniversity of Toronto | Complex harmonic maps and the Atiyah–Bott–Goldman symplectic form | Spiro |
| Nov 7 | Spencer CattalaniStony Brook University | Ahlfors currents and symplectic non-hyperbolicity | Aleks |
| Nov 14 | Shintaro Fushida-HardyUniversity of Waterloo | Constructing Lagrangians in S² × S² | Local |
| Nov 21 | Siyuan YuWestern University | Symplectic embeddings of balls in ℂP² and the generalized configuration space | Benoit |
| Dec 15Mon · MC 5417 | Sergey GrigorianUniversity of Texas Rio Grande Valley | Geometric structures determined by the 7-sphere | Spiro |
| Feb 6 | Duncan McCoyUQAM | The unknotting number of positive alternating knots | Ty |
| Feb 13 | Caleb SuanChinese University of Hong Kong | Hull–Strominger Systems and Geometric Flows | Spiro |
| Feb 20 | Reading Week | No seminar | — |
| Feb 27 | Evan SundboUniversity of Waterloo | Broken Toric Varieties and Balloon Animal Maps | Local |
| Mar 20 | Siyuan LuMcMaster University | Interior C² estimate for Hessian quotient equation | Xuemiao |
| Jun 3Wed · 2:00–3:00 · MC 5417 | Izar AlonsoRutgers University | Gauge Theory on hyperkähler manifolds | Spiro |
| Jun 3Wed · 3:30–4:30 · MC 5417 | Ragini SinghalUniversity of Münster | Solutions and singularities of the Ricci-harmonic flow and Ricci-like flows of G₂-structures | Spiro |
| Jun 12MC 5403 | Tommaso PaciniUniversity of Torino | Anisotropic calibrations, adiabatic limits, and mirror symmetry | Spiro |
| Jul 10 | Anton IliashenkoBIMSA | Deformation theory of associative and coassociative Smith maps | Spiro |
| Jul 16Thu · 11:00–12:00 · MC 5479 | Mainak PoddarIISER Pune | Equivariant principal bundles over toric DM stacks | Shengda |