UWaterloo Geometry and Topology Seminar

Geometry and Topology Research Group
September 2023- August 2024, 2:30pm-3:30pm, Thursday, MC 5417

Date & Time Speaker Title Host
Sep 7 Stephen Melczer (University of Waterloo) A Geometric Approach to Analytic Combinatorics Local
Sep 21 Giovanni Russo (Florida International University) Nearly Kahler metrics and torus symmetry Spiro
Sep 28 Mykola Matviichuk (Imperial College London) Elliptic Log Symplectic Brackets on Projective Bundles Ruxandra
Oct 5 Sasha Zotine (Queen's University) Kawaguchi-Silverman Conjecture for Projectivized Bundles over Curves Matt
Oct 12 Reading Week
Oct 26 Lukas Müller (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics ) Quantum representations of handlebody groups Aleksandar
Nov 9 Frederik Benirschke (University of Chicago) Isometric embeddings and totally geodesic submanifolds of Teichmüller spaces Aleksandar
Nov 16 Junsheng Zhang (UC Berkeley) On complete Calabi-Yau manifolds asymptotic to cones Xuemiao
Nov 23 Freid Tong (Harvard University) On some new Monge-Ampere functionals and related PDEs Spiro
Holidays
Jan 11 Lawrence Mouillé (Syracuse University) Positive intermediate Ricci curvature with maximal symmetry rank Spiro
Jan 18 Changho Han (University of Waterloo) Extending the torelli map to alternative compactifications of the moduli space of curves Local
Jan 25 Panagiotis Dimakis (Université du Québec à Montréal, CIRGET) The moduli space of solutions to the dimensionally reduced Kapustin-Witten equations on \(\Sigma\times\mathbb{R}_+\) Benoit
Feb 1 Michael Francis (University of Western Ontario) Local normal forms in complex \(b^k\) geometry Mike
Feb 8 Rosie Wanchun Shen (Harvard University) Du Bois singularities, rational singularities, and beyond Matt
Feb 15 Carlos Valero (McGill) The Calderón problem for \(U(N)\)-connections coupled to spinors Benoit
Feb 22 Reading Week
Feb 29 Ákos Nagy (BEIT Canada) On the hyperbolic Bloch transform Benoit
Mar 5 (Special, 2:30pm-3:30pm, MC 5403) Guillermo Gallego (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Multiplicative Higgs bundles, monopoles and involutions Benoit
Mar 7 Andy Royston (Penn State University) Solitons and the Extended Bogomolny Equations with Jumping Data Benoit
Mar 14 Charles Cifarelli (CIRGET & Stony Brook) Steady gradient Kähler-Ricci solitons and Calabi-Yau metrics on \(\mathbb{C}^n\) Xuemiao
Mar 21 François Greer (Michigan State University) Finiteness of monodromy for fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds Aleksandar
Mar 28 Alex Waldron (UW-Madison) Parabolic gap theorems for the Yang-Mills functional Xuemiao
May 2 Ragini Singhal (ULB) TBD Spiro
May 30 Sergey Grigorian (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) TBD Spiro
June 20 Scott Wilson (CUNY) TBD Aleksandar

Our seminar is held regularly in the Fall and Winter terms (September-April) including some special talks in the Spring term (May-August).
This webpage is maintained by Xuemiao Chen. If you have any questions, please email me.

Records: Jan 2023-Aug 2023