Previous Seminars and Working Groups

Geometry and Topology Seminar

  • May 9, 2025 == Kuan-Hui Lee, Univ. of California, Irvine
    The stability of steady pluriclosed soliton
  • May 2, 2025 == François Nicoleau, Nantes
    Global counterexamples to uniqueness for a Calderón problem with smooth conductivities
  • April 25, 2025 == Richard Melrose, MIT
    Gluing and generalized products
  • April 11, 2025 == Mehdi Lejmi, CUNY
    Balanced HKT metrics
  • April 4, 2025 == Yannick Sire, Johns Hopkins University
    Harmonic maps between singular spaces
  • March 28, 2025 == Roberto Albesiano, Waterloo
    From division to extension
  • March 14, 2025 == Xi Chen, University of Alberta
    Cuspidal curves on K3 surfaces
  • March 7, 2025, 10:00 AM == Behrouz Taji, UNSW Sidney
    Boundedness results for families of non-canonically polarized varieties
  • February 21, 2025 == Ana Balibanu, Louisiana State University
    Transversal slices in quasi-Poisson manifolds
  • February 7, 2025 == Katherine Goldman, McGill
    Residual properties of 2-dimensional Artin groups
  • January 31, 2025 == Jean Pierre Mutanguha, McGill
    Canonically decomposing fibrations: 3-manifolds & groups
  • January 17, 2025 == Patricia Sorya, UQAM
    Borner les chirurgies de Dehn non caractérisantes non entières
  • January 10, 2025 == Chung-Ming Pan, UQAM
    Singular Gauduchon metrics and Hermite-Einstein problem on non-Kähler varieties
  • December 13, 2024 == Olivier Martin, IMPA
    Isotrivial Lagrangian fibrations of hyper-Kähler manifolds of K3^[n] and Kum_n type
  • December 6, 2024 == Caleb Jonker, University of Toronto
    Curvatures in generalized Kähler geometry
  • November 29, 2024 == Panos Dimakis, University of Maryland
    On a conjecture of Simpson
  • November 22, 2024 == Kathryn Mann, Cornell
    (bi)-Foliations of the plane and laminations of the circle
  • CANCELLED - November 15, 2024 == Yannick Sire, Johns Hopkins
    Geometric measure of nodal, critical and singular sets for solutions of degenerate equations
  • November 8, 2024 == Bruno de Oliveira, University of Miami
    Chern numbers ratios of surfaces with big cotangent bundle
  • October 25, 2024 == Freid Tong, University of Toronto
    Complete Calabi-Yau metrics and optimal transport problems
  • October 18, 2024 == Chris Kottke, New College of Florida
    Geometric analysis on quasi-fibered boundary (QFB) manifolds
  • October 4, 2024 == Julien Paupert, Arizona State University.
    Complex hyperbolic and projective deformations of Kleinian groups
  • September 27, 2024 == Nathaniel Sagman, Université du Luxembourg
    Labourie’s conjecture and Higgs bundles at high energy
  • September 13, 2024 == Frédéric Rochon, UQAM
    Warped quasi-asymptotically conical Calabi-Yau metrics
  • September 6, 2024 == Anna Parlak, UC Davis
    Faces of the Thurston norm ball dynamically represented by multiple distinct flows
  • May 10, 2024 == Kai Zheng, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Analysis of complex Monge Ampere equation near singularities
  • April 19, 2024 == Andras Stipsicz, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    Exotic four-manifolds with cyclic fundamental group
  • April 12, 2024 == Xuemiao Chen, Waterloo
    On Vafa-Witten equations over Kaehler manifolds
  • April 5, 2024 == Federico Salmoiraghi, Queen's
    Foliations, contact structures and Anosov flows in dimension 3
  • March 22, 2024 == Bin Guo, Rutgers
    Geometric estimates in Kahler geometry
  • March 15, 2024 == Vamsi Pritham Pingali, Indian Institute of Science
    Ampleness of vector bundles and canonical metrics (zoom talk): slides
  • February 16, 2024 == Connor Sell, UQAM
    Cusps of Arithmetic Hyperbolic Manifolds
  • February 9, 2024 == Charles Cifarelli, UQAM
    Steady gradient Kähler-Ricci solitons and Calabi-Yau metrics on Cn
  • February 2, 2024 == Chi Cheuk Tsang, UQAM
    Motivations and progress on the Fried-Ghys conjecture
  • January 26, 2024 == Ethan Ross, University of Toronto
    Reduction of Polarizations
  • January 12, 2024 == Benoit Charbonneau, Waterloo
    Instantons symétriques
  • November 17, 2023 == Joe Boninger, Boston College
    Twisted knots and the perturbed Alexander invariant
  • November 10, 2023 == Mike Wong, University of Ottawa
    Knot Floer homology, barcodes, and primality
  • November 3, 2023 == Eva Miranda, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
    The Weinstein conjecture, 44 years later
  • October 27, 2023, PK-5675 == Yann Rollin, Nantes
    Moment maps in Symplectic geometry and applications to PL symplectic geometry
  • October 20, 2023 == Abdellah Lahdili, UQAM
    The Einstein-Hilbert functional in Kähler and Sasaki geometry: slides
  • October 13, 2023 == Thomas Barthelmé, Queen's University
    Group actions on bifoliated planes and classification of (pseudo)-Anosov flows in dimension 3
  • October 6, 2023, 2:00 pm == Simone Gutt, Université Libre de Bruxelles
    Around almost complex structures
  • October 6, 2023 == Claude LeBrun, Stony Brook
    Gravitational Instantons, Weyl Curvature, and Conformally Kahler Geometry
  • September 29, 2023 == Tian-Jun Li, University of Minnesota
  • September 22, 2023 == Masafumi Hattori, University of Kyoto
    K-stability of CY fibrations over curves: notes
  • September 15, 2023 == Daniel Litt, University of Toronto
    Hodge theory, braid groups, and some questions about 2x2 matrices
  • September 2, 2022, PK-5675 == Eric Finster, University of Birmingham
    Homotopy Theory and Constructive Mathematics - talk
  • September 23, 2022 == Ruiran Sun, CIRGET
    On slope and valuative K-semistability for big and nef birational divisors
  • September 30, 2022, PK-5675 == Mathieu Anel, Carnegie Mellon University
    Introduction to non-separated topology
  • October 7, 2022 == Ronan Conlon, University of Texas at Dallas
    Shrinking Kahler-Ricci solitons- talk
  • October 14, 2022 == Carlo Scarpa, CIRGET
    Scalar curvature and deformations of complex structures
  • October 21, 2022 == Georg Biedermann, Universidad del Norte
    Calculus in homotopy theory
  • October 28, 2022 == Clara Aldana, Universidad del Norte
    Polyakov Formulas for conical singularities in two dimensions - talk
  • November 4, 2022 == Manh Tien Nguyen, Oxford
    Monotonicity theorems and how to compare them
  • November 11, 2022 == Takahiro Aoi, Abuno High School
    A conical approximation of constant scalar curvature Kähler
    metrics of Poincaré type and log K-semistability
    - slides
  • November 18, 2022 == Victor Kalvin, Concordia and Dawson College
    Determinants of Laplacians on compact surfaces with conical singularities - talk
  • November 25, 2022 == Marcin Sroka, CIRGET
    Monge-Ampere equation in hypercomplex geometry - talk
  • December 9, 2022 == Sarah Collins, Georgia Tech
    Homology cobordism and knot concordance - talk
  • December 16, 2022 == Paula Truöl, ETH Zurich
    Strongly quasipositive knots are concordant to infinitely many strongly quasipositive knots - talk
  • January 20, 2023 == Yueqiao Wu, University of Michigan
    A non-Archimedean characterization of local K-stability
  • January 27, 2023 == Shih-Kai Chiu, Oxford
    Calabi-Yau manifolds with maximal volume growth
  • February 3, 2023 == Nick McCleerey, University of Michigan
    Geodesic Rays in the Donaldson-Uhlenbeck-Yau Theorem
  • *CANCELLED* February 10, 2023 == Maxime Fortier Bourque, Université de Montréal
    The systole of hyperbolic surfaces
  • February 17, 2023 == Maxime Fortier Bourque, Université de Montréal
    The systole of hyperbolic surfaces
  • February 24, 2023 == Nathan Grieve, Carleton University /
    Collège militaire royal / UQAM
    On Harder-Narasimhan data and the Central Limit Theorem
  • March 10, 2023 == Maxence Mayrand, Université de Sherbrooke
    Hyperkähler metrics via deformation theory
  • March 17, 2023 == Panagiotis Dimakis, Stanford
    BAA branes on the Hitchin moduli space from solutions to the extended Bogomolny equations
  • March 24, 2023 == Tristan Ozuch, MIT
    4-dimensional specific aspects of Ricci flows - slides
  • March 31, 2023 == Mihai Paun, Bayreuth
    Infinitesimal extension of pluricanonical forms and injectivity
  • April 14, 2023 == Fraser Binns, Boston College
    Almost L-space knots
  • April 21, 2023, 10:00 AM == Emily Cliff, Université de Sherbrooke
    Smooth 2-groups and their principal bundles
  • April 21, 2023 == Alejandro Adem, NSERC
    Minimal Euler Characteristics for Even-Dimensional Manifolds with Finite Fundamental Group
  • April 28, 2023, PK-5675 == Xiaojun Wu, Bayreuth
    Compact Kähler threefold with nef anticanonical line bundle - slides
  • May 5, 2023 == Yoshinori Hashimoto, Osaka Metropolitan Univ
    Uniform Hörmander estimates for flat nontrivial line bundles
  • May 12, 2023 == Simon Jubert, UQAM
    Yau-Tian-Donaldson correspondence on a class of toric fibrations
  • September 17, 2021 == Alix Deruelle, Sorbonne Université
    A relative entropy for expanders of the Ricci flow (joint work with Felix Schulze, Warwick University) - slides
  • September 24, 2021 == Xuwen Zhu, Northeastern University
    Constant curvature conical metrics - slides and talk
  • October 1, 2021 == Alberto Cavallo, UQAM, PK-5115
    Slice links and smooth 4-manifolds
  • October 8, 2021 == Michael Albanese, UQAM, PK-5675
    The Yamabe Invariant of Complex Surfaces
  • October 15, 2021 == Peter Feller, ETH Zurich
    Braids, quasimorphisms, and slice-Bennequin inequalities - slides and talk
  • October 22, 2021 == Yang Li, MIT
    Metric SYZ conjecture - slides and talk
  • October 29, 2021 == Marco Golla, Nantes
    3-manifolds that bound no definite 4-manifold - talk
  • November 5, 2021 at 11:30 == Sucharit Sarkar, UCLA
    Mixed invariants in Khovanov homology for unorientable cobordisms - talk
  • November 12, 2021 == Ruadhai Dervan, Cambridge
    Stability conditions for polarised varieties - talk
  • November 19, 2021 == Ya Deng, Université de Lorraine
    Big Picard theorem for varieties admitting nilpotent harmonic bundles - talk
  • November 26, 2021 == Gilles Carron, Université de Nantes
    Kato's Limits - slides and talk
  • December 3, 2021 == Steven Sivek, Imperial College
    Small Dehn surgery and SU(2) - talk
  • December 10, 2021 == Nathan Grieve, RMC, Carleton
    On topics that surround the Cone Theorem, K-stability and Diophantine Arithmetic Geometry - talk
  • December 17, 2021 == Adam Jacob, UC Davis
    Special Lagrangian torus fibrations on Del Pezzo and Rational Elliptic Surfaces - talk
  • January 14, 2022 == Ethan Addison, University of Notre Dame
    Generalizing Poincaré-Type Kähler Metrics - slides
  • January 21, 2022 == Francesco Lin, Columbia
    Closed geodesics and Frøyshov invariants of hyperbolic three-manifolds - talk
  • January 28, 2022 == Xi Sisi Shen, Columbia
    A Chern-Calabi flow on Hermitian Manifolds - slides and talk
  • February 4, 2022 == Michael Albanese, UQAM, PK-5115
    Spinh and further generalisations of spin
  • February 11, 2022 == Kyle Hayden, Columbia
    Where are the complex curves in Khovanov homology? - talk
  • February 18, 2022 == Ruiran Sun, CIRGET
    Algebraicity of holomorphic maps to varieties with big representation of \(\pi_1\)
  • February 25, 2022 == Jacob Caudell, Boston College
    Lens space surgeries, lattices, and the Poincaré homology sphere - talk
  • March 11, 2022 == Louis Ioos, Max Planck
    Quantization methods in the Yau-Tian-Donaldson program - slides and talk
  • March 18, 2022 == Dennis The, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, PK-5115
    Simply-transitive CR real hypersurfaces in \(C^3\)
  • March 25, 2022 == Tyrone Ghaswala, UQAM, PK-5115
    Small covers of big surfaces
  • April 1, 2022 == Alan Reid, Rice University
    Embedding and bounding geometrically rational homology 3-spheres - talk
  • April 8, 2022 == Allison Moore, Virginia Commonwealth
    Cosmetic surgery, cosmetic crossings - talk
  • April 22, 2022 == Alexandre Girouard, Laval, PK-5675
    Steklov eigenvalues, homogenization and free boundary minimal surfaces
  • April 29, 2022 == Jean-Philippe Burelle, Sherbrooke, PK-5675
    Piecewise circular curves and flag positivity - talk
  • May 6, 2022 == Joel Kamnitzer, Toronto, PK-5675
    Symplectic duality and affine Grassmannian slices - talk
  • May 27, 2022 == Aldo Witte, KU Leuven, PK-5675
    Singular fibrations in toric and Poisson geometry - talk
  • May 14, 2021 == Ziwen Zhu, Peking University
    Equivariant K-stability and valuative criteria - slides and talk
  • May 7, 2021 == Tye Lidman, North Carolina State University
    SU(2) representations for toroidal homology spheres - talk
  • April 30, 2021 == Wenhao Ou, Chinese Academy of Science
    Projective varieties whose tangent bundle contains certain positivity - slides and talk
  • April 23, 2021 == Johnny Nicholson, University College London
    Projective modules and exotic group presentations - talk
  • April 9, 2021 == Marco Marengon, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
    Relative genus bounds in indefinite 4-manifolds - talk
  • March 26, 2021 == Antonio Alfieri, UBC
    Symmetric knots and Floer homologies - talk
  • March 19, 2021 == Philipp Naumann, Universität Bayreuth
    Curvature formula for direct images of relative canonical bundles with a Poincaré type twist - slides and talk
  • March 12, 2021 == Anthony Conway, MIT
    Knotted surfaces with infinite cyclic knot group - talk
  • February 26, 2021 == Chris Kottke, New College of Florida
    Bigerbes and applications - slides and talk
  • February 19, 2021 == Michael Hallam, Oxford
    Stability of fibrations through geodesic analysis - slides and talk
  • February 12, 2021 == Allison Miller, Rice University
    Amphichiral knots with large 4-genera - talk
  • February 5, 2021 == Simone Diverio, Sapienza, Università di Roma
    Pointwise universal Gysin formulae and positivity of some characteristic forms - talk
  • January 29, 2021 == Tarik Aougab, Haverford College
    Statistics for random curves on surfaces - talk
  • January 22, 2021 == Yohan Brunebarbe, Université de Bordeaux
    Higher-dimensional Arakelov inequalities and applications to hyperbolicity - talk
  • January 15, 2021 == Mario Garcia-Fernandez, ICMAT, Madrid
    Gravitating vortices with positive curvature - slides and talk
  • December 11, 2020 == Matei Toma, Nancy
    Boundedness for sets of coherent analytic sheaves - talk
  • November 27, 2020 == Mykola Matviichuk, University of Toronto
    A local Torelli theorem for log symplectic manifolds - talk
  • November 20, 2020 == Neil Hoffman, Oklahoma State University
    Conjectures related to knot complement commensurability - talk
  • November 13, 2020 == Michelle Chu, University of Illinois, Chicago
    Prescribed virtual torsion in the homology of 3-manifolds- talk (part 1) et talk (part 2)
  • November 6, 2020 == Phillip Griffiths, IAS, University of Miami
    Some geometric applications of Hodge theory - slides and talk
  • October 30, 2020 == Hugues Auvray, Paris, Orsay
    Noyaux de Bergman sur les surfaces de Riemann épointées - slides and talk
  • October 23, 2020 == Aru Ray, MPIM, Bonn
    Embedding surfaces in 4-manifolds - talk
  • October 16, 2020 == Yi Ni, CalTech
    Seifert fibered surgeries on hyperbolic fibered knots - talk
  • October 9, 2020 == Christina Tonnesen-Friedman, Union College
    Sasaki-Einstein metrics and the Iterated join - slides and talk
  • October 2, 2020 == Junyan Cao, Université de Nice
    On the Ohsawa-Takegoshi extension theorem - talk
  • September 25, 2020 == Jonathan Johnson, University of Texas at Austin
    Bi-Orderability and Pretzel Knots - talk
  • September 18, 2020 ==Carlo Scarpa, SISSA
    The Hitchin-cscK system - slides and talk
  • September 11, 2020 == Andrew Lobb, University of Durham
    The rectangular peg problem
  • July 24, 2020 == Livio Liechti, Université de Fribourg
    Divide knots of maximal genus defect - slides and talk
  • July 17, 2020 == Joshua Howie, UC Davis
    Alternating genera of torus knots - talk
  • July 10, 2020 == Gabriele Mondello, Università di Roma, La Sapienza
    On spherical surfaces of genus 1 with 1 conical point - slides
  • July 3, 2020 == Nicolina Istrati, Tel Aviv University
    Variational problems in conformal geometry - slides and talk
  • June 26, 2020 == Martin Bobb, UT Austin
    Decomposition along flats for convex projective manifolds - talk
  • June 19, 2020 == Vaibhav Gadre, University of Glasgow
    Statistical hyperbolicity of Teichmuller spaces - slides and talk
  • June 12, 2020 == Eiji Inoue, Tokyo
    mu-cscK metrics and muK-stability of polarized manifolds - slides and talk
  • June 5, 2020 == Ben Weinkove, Northwestern
    The Chern-Ricci flow - slides and talk
  • May 29, 2020 == Lukas Lewark, Regensberg
    Squeezed knots - slides and talk
  • May 22, 2020 == Patrick Orson, Boston College
    Topologically embedding spheres in knot traces
  • May 15, 2020 == Ekatarina Amerik, Paris Sud and HSE Moscow
    Around the cone conjecture for hyperkähler manifolds - slides
  • May 8, 2020 == Henri Guenancia, CNRS, Toulouse
    Families of singular Kähler-Einstein metrics - slides
  • March 6, 2020 == Clayton McDonald, Boston College
    Doubly slice odd pretzel knots
  • February 21, 2020 == Artour Tomberg, University of Western Ontario
    Vector bundles on twistor spaces of hyperkähler manifolds
  • February 14, 2020 == Joel Kamnitzer, University of Toronto
    Symplectic duality and the Hikita Conjecture
  • February 7, 2020, 10:00 == Gavin Ball, CIRGET, UQAM
    Closed G2-structures inducing a conformally flat metric
  • January 31, 2020 == Michael Albanese, CIRGET, UQAM
    Almost Complex Structures on Rational Homology Spheres
  • January 24, 2020 == Michael Lipnowski, McGill
    The Seiberg-Witten equations and the length spectrum of hyperbolic three-manifolds
  • January 17, 2020 == Tyrone Ghaswala, CIRGET
    Infinite-type surfaces and the arcs that survive
  • December 6, 2019 == Lars Sektnan, Aarhus University
    Optimal symplectic connections on holomorphic submersions
  • November 29, 2019 == Thomas Hockenhull, University of Glasgow
    Koszul duality and Knot Floer homology
  • November 22, 2019, 10:00 == Ahmad Issa, UBC
    Embedding Seifert fibered spaces in the 4-sphere
  • November 22 2019 == Sungmo Kang, University of Texas at Austin
    Hyperbolic primitive/Seifert knots in the 3-sphere
  • November 8, 2019 == Andrei Moroianu, Paris 11
    Weakly complex homogeneous spaces
  • November 1, 2019 == Kenji Fukaya, Kyoto University
    Virtual fundamental chain and its application
  • October 18, 2019 == Fei Hu, Waterloo
    Dynamical degrees of self-maps on abelian varieties
  • October 11, 2019 == Maxence Mayrand, University of Toronto
    Symplectic reduction, GIT quotients, and Nahm’s equations
  • October 4, 2019, 10:00 ==Kang Zuo, Mainz
    A p-adic characterization of modular curves
  • October 4, 2019 == Georges Dloussky, Marseille
    Positive (1,1) currents on some non-Kähler compact complex surfaces
  • September 27, 2019 == Gerard Freixas, Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu
    On the BCOV invariant of Calabi-Yau manifolds
  • September 20, 2019, 10:00 == Michael Brandenbursky, Ben-Gurion University
    Fragmentation norm and relative quasimorphisms
  • September 20, 2019 == Jen Hom, Georgia Tech
    More concordance homomorphisms from knot Floer homology
  • September 13, 2019 == Artem Kotelskiy
    Immersed curves in Khovanov homology
  • September 13, 10:00 == Linh Truong, Institute for Advanced Study
    An infinite rank summand of the homology cobordism group
  • September 11, 2019 == Brendan Owens, University of Glasgow
    Embeddings of rational balls
  • September 9, 2019 == Mike Willis, UCLA
    Defining Khovanov homology and Rasumussen’s invariant in #r(S1 x S2)
  • September 6, 2019 == David Calderbank, Bath
    GL2 geometries and quaternionic manifolds with symmetry
  • September 6, 2019 at 10:00 == Ian Zemke, Princeton
    Ribbon concordances and knot Floer homology
  • August 23, 2019 == Shu-Cheng Chang, National Taiwan University
    Yau’s Uniformization Conjecture in Sasakian Manifolds
  • May 10, 2019 == Xi Chen, University of Alberta
    Rational curves on K3 surfaces
  • May 3, 2019 == Fangyang Zheng, Ohio State
    Strominger connection and pluriclosed metrics
  • April 26, 2019 == Carlo Gasbarri, Strasbourg
    Transcendental Liouville inequality and rational points on disks
  • April 12, 2019 == Peter Feller, ETH
    Moebius bands in B3xS1 and the square peg problem
  • March 29, 2019 == Eric Bahuaud, Seattle University
    Ricci flow of asymptotically hyperbolic metrics
  • March 22, 2019 == Liangming Shen, CIRGET
    The Kahler-Ricci flow with log canonical singularities
  • March 15, 2019 == Brent Pym, McGill
    Multiple zeta values in deformation quantization
  • February 22, 2019 == Jonah Gaster, McGill
    Computing discrete harmonic maps between hyperbolic surfaces
  • February 15, 2019, 10:00 == Brett Kotschwar, Arizona State University
    The determination of a shrinking Ricci soliton from its geometry at infinity
  • February 15, 2019 == Éveline Legendre, Toulouse
    L’invariant de Futaki et la fonctionnelle d’Einstein-Hilbert
  • Wednesday, February 6, 2019, 11h00 == Kiumars Kaveh, University of Pittsburgh
    Convexity in algebraic geometry and symplectic geometry
  • January 25, 2019 == Cyril Lecuire, Toulouse
    Représentations kleiniennes
  • January 18, 2019 == Duncan McCoy, UT Austin
    Dehn surgery on knots in S3
  • Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 11:00 == Julien Keller, Marseille
    Quantification géométrique et applications à différents problèmes de géométrie complexe
  • January 11, 2019 == Baptiste Chantraine, Nantes
    Sous-variétés lagrangiennes des variétés de Weinstein
  • January 11, 2019, 10:00 == Christine Guenther, Pacific University
    Convergence Stability of the Ricci Flow
  • December 14, 2018 == Frédéric Campana, Université de Lorraine, Nancy
    Criterion for algebraicity of foliations, applications
  • December 7, 2018 == Eric Woolgar, University of Alberta
    Conditions of curvature-dimension type in relativity and Lorentzian geometry
  • December 7, 2018, 10:00 == Marcin Sabok, McGill University
    Circle squaring and actions of Zn
  • November 30, 2018 == Charles Doran, University of Alberta
    Classification and Applications of K3 Surface Fibered Calabi-Yau Threefolds
  • November 16, 2018 == Joey van der leer Duran, University of Toronto
    Hodge decompositions for Lie algebroids on manifolds with boundary
  • November 9, 2018 == Daniel Alvarez-Gavela, IAS Princeton, The multi-parametric Reidemeister theorem and higher homotopy
    groups of the space of Legendrian knots in the standard contact 3-space
  • November 2, 2018 == Curtis Porter, North Carolina State
    Nondegeneracy in CR Geometry
  • October 12, 2018 == Georges Dloussky, Université Aix-Marseille
    How to prove the GSS conjecture?
  • October 5, 2018 == Dmitry Faifman, Université de Montréal
    Lipschitz-Killing curvatures in pseudo-Riemannian and contact manifolds
  • September 28, 2018 == Jeffrey Streets, University of California, Irvine
    Pluriclosed flow and geometrization of complex surfaces
  • September 27, 2018 == Casey Lynn Kelleher, Princeton
    Symplectic curvature flow revisited

CIRGET Junior Seminar

  • April 9, 2025 == Giovanny Soto, UQAM
    Special metrics on toric manifolds arising from moment polytopes
  • March 26, 2025, 5pm == Benabida Abdou Oussama, UQAM
    Asymptotics for resolutions and smoothings of Calabi-Yau conifolds
  • February 19, 2025, 5pm == Denis Vinokurov, Université de Montréal
    Searching for Equivariant Harmonic Maps That Maximize Laplacian Eigenvalues on the Sphere
  • February 12, 2025 == Giacomo Bascape, UQAM
    Square and/or Rectangle PEG Problem
  • January 29, 2025 == Alexis Leroux-Lapierre, McGill
    Comparing two biperfect bases using category O
  • January 15, 2025 == Ruiran Sun, University of Toronto
    An introduction to Shafarevich’s conjecture
  • November 26, 2024 == Emanuele Ronda, UQAM
    Vanishing Theorems and application to positivity in Algebraic Geometry
  • November 5, 2024 == Habib Alizadeh, Université de Montréal
    A few topics in Symplectic Geometry
  • October 29, 2024 == Zakaria Baammi, Université de Montréal
    La chirurgie de Fintushel Stern sur une variété de dimension 4 le long d’un nœud K
  • October 22, 2024 == Bart Syroka, McGill
    Balanced metrics on 6-manifolds of cohomogeneity one
  • October 8, 2024 == Giacomo Bascape, UQAM
    3-manifolds and SU(2)-representations
  • October 1, 2024 == Xia Xiao, UQAM
    Canonical metrics (e.g., constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics) on Riemann surfaces
  • August 30, 2023 == Kasia Jankiewicz, University of California, Santa Cruz
    Centers of Artin groups
  • October 3, 2022 == Houari Benammar, UQAM
    Ruled Surface
  • October 17, 2022 == Patricia Sorya, UQAM
    Dehn surgery characterization of satellite knots
  • February 7, 2023 == Federico Trinca, Oxford
    On the stability of minimal submanifolds in conformal spheres
  • February 14, 2023 == Alex Manchester, Rice University
    Satellite Operators and (n)-solvability
  • February 21, 2023 == Keith Mills, University of Maryland
    Almost Complex Manifolds and Homotopy Projective Spaces
  • February 28, 2023 == Arno Wildi, Institut für Mathematik Universität Zürich
    Categorification, a very general idea in mathematics
  • March 7, 2023 == Bangxin Wang, Institut für Mathematik Universität Zürich
    An introduction to quantum topology
  • March 21, 2023 == Pietro Capovilla, Scuola normale di Pisa
    Amenable covers and simplicial volume
  • March 28, 2023 == Kai Joel Smith, Indiana University
    Character Varieties of Tangles and Singular Instanton Homology
  • April 4, 2023 == Alessio Di Prisa, Scuola Normale di Pisa
    Equivariant concordance of strongly invertible knots
  • April 11, 2023 == Laura Wakelin, Imperial College
    The Dehn surgery characterisation of Whitehead doubles
  • April 18, 2023 == Fraser Binns, Boston College
    (1,1) (almost) L-space knots
  • March 16, 2022 == Paul Cusson, McGill University
    Classifying vector bundle filtrations with infinite flag manifolds and other problems
  • CANCELLED - March 23, 2022 == Paul Cusson, McGill University
    Classifying vector bundle filtrations with infinite flag manifolds and other problems II
  • March 30, 2022 == Lydia Mezrag, Université de Montréal
    K-theory and Hamiltonian fibrations
  • April 6, 2022 == Chenxi Yi, UQAM
    Introduction to the Yau-Tian-Donaldson Conjecture
  • April 13, 2022 == Ludovic D'Anjou Madoré, UQAM
    Categorical Logic, Topos Theory and Applications
  • April 27, 2022 == Benabida Oussama, UQAM
    Convergence of the Krylov Bogolyubov procedure in Bowen's example
  • May 18, 2022 == Ruiran Sun, McGill
    Variation of Hodge structures on curves and Fujita decomposition
  • May 25, 2022 == Giacomo Bascape, UQAM
    SU(2) representation of triangles group
  • March 8, 2021 == Damien Tageddine, McGill
    Noncommutative differential geometry of matrix algebras
  • February 15, 2021 == Haouri Benammar, UQAM
    Grothendiek group
  • February 1, 2021 == Erfan Nazari, McGill
    Poisson manifolds of compact types
  • November 25, 2020 == Michael Albanese, UQAM
    Almost Complex vs. Complex
  • October 21, 2020 == Aidan Lindberg, McGill
    Hodge Structures in Poisson and Noncommutative Geometry
  • October 14, 2020 == Quentin Karegar, Unidad Cuernavaca Instituto de Matemáticas
    A groupoid approach to orbifolds
  • October 7, 2020 == Bart Syroka, McGill
    Quasi-local Mass in Spacetimes
  • September 30, 2020 == Carlos Valero, McGill
    An Introduction to the Calderon Problem
  • September 23, 2020 == Dominique Rathel-Fournier, Université de Montréal
    From curves on surfaces to Lagrangian topology
  • September 16, 2020 == Simon Jubert, UQAM
    A Yau-Tian-Donaldson correspondence on toric Kahler manifolds

Geometric Group Theory Seminar

  • April 9, 2025 == Othmane Oukrid, McGill University
    Odd Moebius—Kantor Ring Puzzles
  • April 2, 2025 == Arya Vadnere, University at Buffalo
    Gromov boundary of the Grand Arc Graph
  • March 26, 2025 == Nicholas Touikan, University of New Brunswick
    On the conjugacy separability of mapping tori of polynomially growing free group automorphisms
  • March 19, 2025 == Sam Fisher, University of Oxford
    Virtually free-by-cyclic RFRS groups
  • March 12, 2025 == Aranka Hrušková, Weizmann Institute of Science
    Asymptotically commuting measures share the Furstenberg-Poisson boundary
  • March 5, 2025 == Dani Wise, McGill
    A survey on the Kervaire-Laudenbach conjecture
  • February 26, 2025 == Piotr Przytycki, McGill
    A pair of Garside shadows
  • February 19, 2025 == Chris Karpinski, McGill
    Hyperfiniteness of boundary actions of graphical small cancellation groups
  • February 12, 2025 == Olga Kharlampovich, CUNY, Grad Center and Hunter College
    Effective Generalization of Hall’s Theorem for Limit Groups and Cube Complexes
  • February 5, 2025 == Christophe Hohlweg, UQAM
    Shi arrangements in Coxeter groups
  • January 29, 2025 == Koichi Oyakawa, Vanderbilt University
    Geometry and dynamics of the extension graph of graph product of groups
  • January 22, 2025 == Antoine Poulin, McGill
    Measure equivalence of Baumslag-Solitar groups & type III relations
  • January 15, 2025 == Maninder Dhanauta, McGill
    Virtual cactus group is virtually special compact
  • November 27, 2024 == William Chong, McGill
    Embedding Partial HNN Extensions in Ascending HNN Extensions
  • November 20, 2024 == Bratati Som, University at Buffalo-SUNY
    Acylindrical actions on trees and applications to the outer automorphism group of Baumslag-Solitar groups
  • November 13, 2024 == Daniel Wise, McGill
    A small contribution to the Kervaire conjecture
  • November 6, 2024 == Paige Hillen, UC Santa Barbara
    Latent symmetry of graphs and stretch factors in Out(Fn)
  • October 31, 2024 == Catherine Pfaff, Institute for Advanced Study & Queen’s University
    Train track automata for outer automorphisms of free groups and geodesics in outer space
  • October 23, 2024 == Amy Herron, University at Buffalo
    Triangle Presentations in ~A2 Bruhat-Tits Buildings
  • October 9, 2024 == Bojun Zhao, UQAM
    Reconstruction of Anosov flows from infinity
  • October 2, 2024 == Katherine Goldman, McGill University
    Curvature of Shephard groups
  • September 25, 2024 == Jean Pierre Mutanguha, McGill University
    The dynamics of free group endomorphisms
  • September 18, 2024 == Changjie Chen, Université de Montréal
    Morse functions on the moduli space of hyperbolic surfaces
  • September 11, 2024 == Zachary Munro, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
    A Coarse Geometric Obstruction to Cubulation
  • April 10, 2024 == Merlin Medici, Universität Wien
    Automorphism groups of cocompact CAT(0) cube complexes
  • March 27, 2024 == Indira Chatterji, Côte d'Azur University
    The rapid decay property and graphs of groups
  • March 22, 2024 == Damian Osajda, University of Copenhagen
    Locally elliptic actions and nonpositive curvature
  • March 20, 2024 == Nikolay Bogachev, University of Toronto
    Commensurability classes and quasi-arithmeticity of hyperbolic reflection groups
  • March 13, 2024 == Annette Karrer, Ohio State University
    Subgroups arising from connected components in the Morse boundary
  • February 28, 2024 == Rylee Alanza Lyman, Rutgers University-Newark
    When is the spine of Outer Space for a free product CAT(0)?
  • February 21, 2024 == Sergey Norin, McGill
    Brambles, stack number and topological overlap
  • February 14, 2024 == Steven Boyer, UQAM
    Stir-frying Homeo_+(S^1)-representations and the L-space conjecture
  • January 31, 2024 == Rose Morris-Wright, Middlebury College
    Geometric connections between Artin groups and Artin monoids
  • January 17, 2024 == Antoine Poulin, McGill
    The failure of cost in the measure-class preserving setting
  • November 29, 2023 == Duncan McCoy, UQAM
    Obstructing cusp types of arithmetic hyperbolic manifolds
  • November 22, 2023 == Nima Hoda, McGill
    Tree of graph boundaries of hyperbolic groups
  • November 8, 2023 == Connor Sell, UQAM
    Cusps of arithmetic hyperbolic manifolds
  • November 1, 2023 == Piotr Przytycki, McGill
    Trees, fixed-points and the Cremona group
  • October 25, 2023 == Zachary Munro, McGill
    Random Groups are not n-Cubulated
  • October 18, 2023 == Ran Tao, CMU
    Quasi-treeable CBERs are treeable via median graphs
  • September 13, 2023 == Christopher Karpinski, McGill
    A weak Tits alternative for groups acting on buildings
  • September 7, 2022 == Annette Karrer, McGill
    The boundary rigidity of lattices in products of trees
  • September 14, 2022 == Sami Douba, IHES
    A hyperbolic lattice in each dimension with Zariski-dense surface subgroups
  • September 21, 2022 == Thomas Haettel, U. Montpellier
    Group actions on injective metric spaces
  • September 28, 2022 == Piotr Przytycki, McGill
    Coxeter groups are biautomatic
  • October 5, 2022 == Chris Karpinski, McGill
    Hyperfiniteness of the Action of Relatively Hyperbolic
    Groups on their Bowditch Boundary
  • October 19, 2022 == Dani Wise, McGill
    Magnus's Power Series Representation
  • October 26, 2022 == William Chong, McGill
    pi1 Injection and Relative Hyperbolicity
  • November 2, 2022 == Brahim Abdenbi, McGill
    The Hrushovski property for compact special cube complexes
  • November 9, 2022 == Zachary Munro, McGill
    Strict C(6) Complexes
  • November 16, 2022 == Konrad Wrobel, McGill
    Measure equivalence and wreath product groups
  • *Thursday* November 24, 2022 == Jean-Pierre Mutanguha, IAS
    Canonical forms for free group automorphisms
  • November 30, 2022 == Duncan McCoy, UQAM
    Seifert fibered surgeries
  • January 11, 2023 == Harry Petyt, Oxford
    Extracting hyperbolicity from CAT(0) geometry
  • January 18, 2023 == Thomas Haettel, Montpellier
    Garside Groups
  • January 25, 2023 == Annette Karrer, McGill
    From Stalling's Theorem to Morse boundaries
  • February 1, 2023 == Max Chemtov, McGill
    Nonpositive Towers in Contractible 3-Manifold Spines
  • February 8, 2023 == Piotr Przytycki, McGill
    Tits alternative for the 3-dimensional tame automorphism group
  • February 15, 2023 == William Chong, McGill
    Whitehead Graphs and Irreducible Half-clean HNN Extensions
  • February 22, 2023 == Rémi Coulon, Rennes
    Equations in periodic groups
  • March 22, 2023 == Sam Fischer, Oxford
    Algebraic fibring and L2-Betti numbers
  • March 29, 2023 == Grigori Avramidi, Max Planck Institute
    Homology growth, hyperbolization, and fibering.
  • September 15, 2021 == Sami Douba, McGill University
    Proper CAT(0) actions of unipotent-free linear groups
  • September 22, 2021 == Zachary Munro, McGill University
    Hyperbolic groups and geometric group theory
  • September 29, 2021 == William Chong, McGill University
    Small cancellation theory and word problems
  • October 6, 2021 == Catherine Pfaff, Queen's University
    A Brief (Hopefully Gentle) Introduction to Out(F_r),
    Culler-Vogtmann Outer Space, & Out(F_r) Conjugacy Class Invariants
  • Thursday, October 14, 2021 == Michah Sageev, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
    Right angled Coxeter groups acting on CAT(0) cube complexes.
  • October 20, 2021 == Daniel Wise, McGill
    Complete Square Complexes
  • October 27, 2021 == Daniel Wise, McGill
    Complete Square Complexes II
  • November 3, 2021 == William Chong, McGill
    An uncountable family of finitely generated residually finite groups
  • November 10, 2021 == Daniel Wise, McGill
    Introductory level talk on residual finiteness
  • November 17, 2021 == Tyrone Ghaswala, UQAM
    Mapping class groups, coverings, braids and groupoids
  • November 24, 2021 == Alex Lubotzky, Hebrew Univ / Weizmann Institute / IAS
    The C3 problem: error-correcting codes with a constant rate, constant distance, and constant locality
  • December 1, 2021 == Catherine Pfaff, Queen's University
    Train (track)s, loops, & iteration. What does a typical element of Out(F_r) look like?
  • December 8, 2021 == Thomas Koberda, University of Virginia
    Hamiltonicity of graphs via right-angled Artin groups
  • February 9, 2022 == Daniel Wise, McGill
    Introductory level talk on residual finiteness continued
  • February 16, 2022 == Sami Douba, McGill
    Thin right-angled Coxeter subgroups of some arithmetic lattices
  • February 23, 2022 == Daniel Wise, McGill
    Introductory level talk on residual finiteness continued
  • March 9, 2022 == William Chong, McGill
    One-relator Product of Cyclic Groups
  • March 16, 2022 == Daniel Wise, McGill
    One-relator groups
  • March 23, 2022 == William Ghanem, McGill
    CAT(0) Cube Complexes: The Dual Complex and Finiteness Properties
  • April 6, 2022 == Christopher Karpinski, McGill
    The generalized conjugacy problem in hyperbolic and relatively hyperbolic groups
  • April 13, 2022 == Christopher Karpinski, McGill
    The generalized conjugacy problem in hyperbolic and relatively hyperbolic groups II
  • April 7, 2021 == Joshua Frisch, California Institute of Technology
    The ICC property in random walks and dynamics
  • March 31, 2021 == Steve Trettel, Stanford
    Raymarching the Thurston geometries: visual intuition for geometric topology in 3 dimensions
  • March 24, 2021 == Eduardo Oregón-Reyes, UC Berkeley
    Cubulated relatively hyperbolic groups and virtual specialness
  • March 17, 2021 == Sami Douba, McGill
    Virtually unipotent elements of 3-manifold groups
  • March 10, 2021 == Carolyn Abbott, Columbia University
    Random walks and quasiconvexity in acylindrically hyperbolic groups
  • February 24, 2021 == Daniel Wise, McGill
    Complete square complexes
  • February 17, 2021 == Kevin Schreve, University of Chicago
    Generalized Tits conjecture for Artin groups
  • February 10, 2021 == Jingyin Huang, Ohio State University
    Measure equivalence rigidity of 2-dimensional Artin groups of hyperbolic type
  • February 3, 2021 == Anne Lonjou, University of Basel
    Action of the Cremona group on a CAT(0) cube complex.
  • January 27, 2021 == Jean-Philippe Burelle, Université de Sherbrooke
    Local rigidity of diagonally embedded triangle groups
  • January 20, 2021 == Anush Tserunyan, McGill University
    The structure of hyperfinite subequivalence relations of treed equivalence relations
  • January 13, 2021 == Florestan Brunck, McGill University
    Iterated medial subdivision in surfaces of constant curvature and applications to
    acute triangulations of hyperbolic and spherical simplicial complexes
  • December 2, 2020 == Damian Orlef, IMPAN
    Non-orderability of random triangular groups by using random 3CNF formulas
  • November 25, 2020 == Mitul Islam, University of Michigan
    Convex co-compact representations of 3-manifold groups
  • November 18, 2020 == Piotr Przytycki, McGill University
    Tail equivalence of unicorn paths
  • November 11, 2020 == Zachary Munro, McGill University
    Biautomaticity of 2-dimensional Coxeter groups
  • November 4, 2020 == Kathryn Mann, Cornell University
    Stability for hyperbolic groups acting on their boundaries
  • October 28, 2020 == Ian Runnels, University of Virginia
    RAAGs in MCGs
  • October 21, 2020 == Asaf Hadari, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Mapping class groups that do not virtually surject to the integers
  • October 14, 2020 == Thomas Haettel, Université de Montpellier
    The coarse Helly property, hierarchical hyperbolicity, and semihyperbolicity
  • October 7, 2020 == Robert Kropholler, WWU Münster
    Groups of type FP2 over fields
  • September 30, 2020 == Duncan McCoy, UQAM
    Characterizing slopes for torus knots and hyperbolic knots
  • September 23, 2020 == Michael Lipnowski, McGill University
    Algorithms for building grids
  • September 16, 2020 == Mikołaj Frączyk, University of Chicago
    Growth of mod-p homology in higher rank lattices
  • September 9, 2020 == Sam Shepherd, University of Oxford
    Quasi-isometric rigidity of generic cyclic HNN extensions of free groups
  • March 25, 2020 == Sami Douba, McGill
    Finitely generated subgroups of compact Lie groups
  • March 18, 2020 == Merlione Incerti-Medici, Zurich
    Topologies and metrics on the Morse boundary
  • March 11, 2020 == Ilya Kapovich, Hunter College of CUNY
    Singularity properties of random free group automorphisms and of random trees in the boundary of Outer space
  • February 19, 2020 == James Farre, Yale University
    Hyperbolic volume and bounded cohomology
  • February 12, 2020 == Michał Marcinkowski, IMPAN
    Bounded cohomology of transformation groups
  • February 5, 2020 == Tyrone Ghaswala, Université du Québec à Montréal
    Promoting circular-orderability to left-orderability
  • January 29, 2020 == Rylee Lyman, Tufts University
    Train Tracks, Orbigraphs and CAT(0) Free-by-cyclic groups
  • January 22, 2020 == Damian Osajda, University of Wrocław
    Helly groups
  • January 15, 2020 == Dani Wise, McGill
    Intro to word-hyperbolic groups
  • January 8, 2020 == Abdalrazzaq Zalloum, Queen’s University
    Growth of stable subgroups in Morse-local-to-global groups
  • November 20, 2019 == Dani Wise, McGill University
    A vanishing result for the second L2-Betti number.
  • November 13, 2019 == Elizabeth Fields, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Trees, dendrites, and the Cannon-Thurston map
  • November 6, 2019 == Jens Harlander, Boise State University
    Geometry and topology of labeled oriented trees.
  • October 30, 2019 == Nima Hoda, École normale supérieure
    Crystallographic Helly Groups
  • October 23, 2019 == Kasia Jankiewicz, University of Chicago
    Residual finiteness of three generator Artin groups
  • October 16, 2019 == Heejoung Kim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Algorithms detecting stability and Morseness for finitely generated groups
  • October 9, 2019 == Rémi Coulon, Institut de recherche mathématique de Rennes
    Twisted Patterson-Sullivan measure and applications to growth problems
  • October 2, 2019 == Catherine Pfaff, Queen’s University
    Typical trees: an Out(Fr) excursion
  • September 25, 2019 == Piotr Przytycki, McGill University
    Tits alternative in dimension 2
  • September 18, 2019 == Michael Brandenbursky, Ben-Gurion University
    Entropy, metrics and quasi-morphisms
  • September 11, 2019 == Daniel Woodhouse, University of Oxford
    Action rigidity of free products of hyperbolic manifold groups
  • April 10, 2019 == Leonid Potyagailo, Université de Lille
    Martin and Floyd boundaries of finitely generated groups
  • April 3, 2019 == Joshua Greene, Boston College
    On loops intersecting at most once
  • March 27, 2019 == Steven Boyer, UQAM
    Deforming foliations in branched covers and the L-space conjecture
  • 20 mars 2019 == Alexandre Martin, Heriot-Watt University
    The Tits alternative for two-dimensional Artin groups
  • March 13, 2019 == Piotr Przytycki, McGill University
    Torsion groups do not act on 2-dimensional CAT(0) complexes
  • March 6, 2019 == Doron Puder, Tel Aviv University
    Matrix integrals, graphs on surfaces, and mapping class group
  • February 27, 2019 == Sami Douba, McGill University
    2-Systems of arcs on spheres with prescribed endpoints
  • February 20, 2019 == Hugh Thomas, UQAM
    Parking functions via piecewise-linear transformations of Rm
  • February 6, 2019 == Zachary Munro, McGill
    Weak Modularity and Euclidean Buildings
  • January 30, 2019 == Dani Wise, McGill
    Bicollapsibility and groups with torsion
  • January 23, 2019 == Michael Lipnowski, McGill
    Geometry of the smallest 1-form Laplacian eigenvalue on hyperbolic manifolds
  • January 16, 2019 == Nima Hoda, McGill
    Constructing bisimplices
  • January 9, 2019 == Jonah Gaster, McGill
    Computing discrete harmonic maps between hyperbolic surfaces
  • December 12, 2018 == Jacek Świątkowski, University of Wrocław)
    Topological characterization of boundaries of free products of groups
  • Thursday, December 6, 2018, room 920 == Jingyin Huang, Ohio State University
    Quasi-isometric rigidity of 2-dimensional Artin groups
  • November 28, 2018 == Matthew Haulmark, Vanderbilt University
    Non-hyperbolic groups with Menger curve boundary
  • November 21, 2018 == Tomasz Prytuła, Max Planck Institute
    Classifying space for proper actions for groups admitting a strict fundamental domain
  • November 14, 2018 == Valentina Disarlo, Heidelberg University
    Cubical geometry in the polygonalization complex
  • November 7, 2018 == Timothée Marquis, Université Catholique de Louvain
    On geodesic ray bundles in buildings
  • October 31, 2018 == Ilya Gekhtman, University of Toronto
    Growth rates of invariant random subgroups in negative curvature
  • October 24, 2018 == Marcin Sabok, McGill University
    The Hrushovski property for hypertournaments and profinite topologies
  • October 17, 2018 == Camille Horbez, Université Paris-Sud
    Growth under automorphisms of hyperbolic groups
  • October 10, 2018 == Macarena Covadonga Robles Arenas, McGill University
    Measuring complexity of curves on surfaces
  • October 4, 2018, 16:00 == Ruth Charney, Brandeis University
    A geometric approach to Artin groups
  • October 3, 2018 == Daniel Woodhouse, Technion
    Revisiting Leighton’s graph covering theorem
  • September 26, 2018 == Giulio Tiozzo, University of Toronto
    Random walks and WPD actions
  • September 19, 2018 == Florestan Brunck, McGill University
    Non-Obtuse Dissection of Tetrahedra
  • September 12, 2018 == Yann Pequignot, McGill University
    An introduction to Borel chromatic numbers
  • September 5, 2018 == Damian Osajda, University of Wrocław
    Two-dimensional Artin groups and metric systolicity

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

  • May 28, 2025 == Pavel Shlykov, Edinburgh
    Quiver varieties in dimension four
  • May 7, 2025 == Sylvester Zhang, University of Minnesota
    Affine Robinson-Schensted Correspondence and Affine Flag varieties
  • April 30, 2025 == Davood Nejaty, University of Melbourne
    A topological mirror symmetry for pairs of commuting Higgs fields
  • March 26, 2025 == Jonathan Boretsky, McGill University
    On two Notions of Flag Positivity
  • Thursday, March 6, 2025, 3:00 pm == Sándor Kovács, University of Washington
    KSB stability is automatic in codimension 3
  • February 19, 2025 == Ana Balibanu, Louisiana State University
    An analogue of Whittaker reduction for group-valued moment maps
  • February 5, 2025 == Rui Xiong, University of Ottawa
    Chern classes of subvarieties over partial flag varieties
  • January 22, 2025 == Vasily Krylov, Harvard University
    From geometric realizations of affine Hecke algebras to character formulas
  • January 8, 2025 == Joseph Helfer, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
    The integral Chow ring of the moduli stack of compact type curves of genus 2
  • December 11, 2024 == Olivier Martin, IMPA
    The Xiao conjecture for surfaces fibered by trigonal genus 5 curves
  • December 4, 2024 == Marielle Ong, University of Toronto
    Parabolic Multiplicative Affine Springer Fibers
  • November 20, 2024 == Yu Li, University of Toronto
    Polynomial integrable systems from cluster structures
  • November 6, 2024 == Bruno de Oliveira, University of Miami
    Canonical singularities and surfaces with big cotangent bundle
  • October 30, 2024 == Dennis Gaitsgory, Max Planck Institute
    Algebro-geometric version of the Fargues-Scholze BunG
  • October 23, 2024 == Leonid Rybnikov, Université de Montréal
    Cactus flower curves, integrable systems, and crystals
  • October 9, 2024 == Jenna Rajchgot, McMaster University
    Determinants, Pfaffians, symmetric quivers, and symmetric varieties
  • September 25, 2024 == Artem Kalmykov, McGill University
    A tale of an R-matrix
  • September 11, 2024 == Mike Roth, Queen’s University
    r-point Seshadri constants and the solution to the symplectic packing problem for P1 x P1
  • September 4, 2024 == Tudor Pădurariu, CNRS-Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Université Paris Diderot
    Coherent sheaves on the commuting stack
  • April 10, 2024 == Thomas Brazelton, Harvard
    Real planar curves - algebraic, geometric, and topological aspects
  • March 27, 2024 == Chenxi Yin, UQAM
    Valuative invariants for spherical varieties and applications to K-stability
  • March 13, 2024 == Maxence Mayrand, Université de Sherbrooke
    Shifted coisotropics and Moore-Tachikawa topological quantum field theories
  • February 28, 2024 == Guillermo Gallego, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
    Multiplicative Hitchin fibration and Langlands duality
  • February 14, 2024 == Steven Lu, UQAM
    Hyperkahler manifolds dominable by Cn, Part II
  • January 31, 2024 == Steven Lu, UQAM
    Hyperkahler manifolds dominable by Cn
  • January 17, 2024 == Michael Groechenig, University of Toronto
    Topological properties of the Frobenius-pullback for flat connections
  • December 13, 2023 == Sam Payne, UT Austin
    Tropical linear series and Kodaira dimensions of moduli spaces
  • November 29, 2023 == Changho Han, University of Waterloo
    Extending Torelli map from Smyth's alternative compactifications of the moduli of curves
  • November 15, 2023 == Jake Levinson, Université de Montréal
    Minimal fibering degrees and asymptotic degrees of irrationality
  • October 3, 2023 == Dave Anderson, Ohio State University/CRM-Simons
    Schubert polynomials, strong transversality, and equivariant positivity
  • September 20, 2023 == Mykola Matviichuk, Imperial College London
    Elliptic Log Symplectic Brackets on Projective Bundles
  • September 19, 2023 == Karol Palka, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
    Almost minimal models and applications
  • September 5, 2023 == Kang Zao, Universität Mainz
    On the rigidity and hyperbolicity of families of higher dimensional varieties
  • September 23, 2022 == Ruxandra Moraru, University of Waterloo
    Co-Higgs bundles on Poisson surfaces
  • October 7, 2022 == Carl Mautner, UC Riverside
    Perverse sheaves on symmetric products of the plane
  • October 21, 2022 == Sam Payne, UT Austin
    Cohomology of moduli spaces of curves
  • November 4, 2022 == Ruiran Sun, McGill
    One-pointed Shafarevich's conjecture for moduli spaces
    of canonically polarized manifolds
  • November 18, 2022 == Eric Boulter, Waterloo
    Moduli Spaces of Sheaves on Kodaira Surfaces
  • January 13, 2023 == Tony Pantev, University of Pennsylvania
    Mirror symmetry, intersection of quadrics, and Hodge theory
  • January 27, 2023 == Lucien Hennecart, University of Edinburgh
    The BPS Lie algebra of 2-Calabi-Yau categories
  • February 10, 2023 == Soheil Memarian, University of Toronto
    Hyperbolicity of Complex Ball Quotients
  • February 24, 2023 == Nathan Grieve, Carleton University /
    Collège militaire royal / UQAM
    On convex bodies for linear systems and consequences for K-stability and arithmetic
  • March 10, 2023 == Jacques Hurtubise, McGill
    Almost toric structures for moduli of bundles
  • March 24, 2023 == Ramtin Sasani, Concordia
    Symplectic aspects of Gaudin integrable systems and Szegö kernel variational method
  • *May 10, 2023, 3:00 PM* Please note the unusual day and time == Clément Dupont, Université de Montpellier
    Motivic Galois theory for algebraic Mellin transforms and Feynman integrals

Symplectic Seminar

  • October 11, 2024 == Adi Dickstein, Tel Aviv University
    Symplectic topology and ideal-valued measures
  • October 4, 2024 == Zihong Chen, MIT
    The exponential type conjecture for quantum connections
  • September 20, 2024 == Michael Brandenbursky, Ben-Gurion University
    The C0-gap between entropy-zero and autonomous Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of surfaces
  • October 8, 2021 == Jean-Philippe Chassé, UdeM; Leo Digiosia, Rice; Rima Chatterjee, Cologne
    Convergence and Riemannian bounds on Lagrangian submanifolds;
    Cylindrical contact homology of links of simple singularities;
    Cabling of knots in overtwisted contact manifolds
  • October 15, 2021 == Umberto Hryniewicz, RWTH Aachen
    Results on abundance of global surfaces of section
  • October 22, 2021 == Yaniv Ganor, Technion
    Big fiber theorems and ideal-valued measures in symplectic topology
  • October 29, 2021 == Yakov Eliashberg, Stanford
    Detecting non-trivial elements in the spaces of Legendrian knots via Algebraic K-theory
  • November 5, 2021 == Rohil Prasad, Princeton; Alex Pieloch, Columbia; Jimmy Chow, CUHK
    The smooth closing lemma for area-preserving surface diffeomorphisms;
    Sections and unirulings of families over the projective line;
    Hofer geometry of coadjoint orbits and Peterson's theorem
  • November 19, 2021 == Fabio Gironella, HU Berlin
    Exact orbifold fillings of contact manifolds
  • November 26, 2021 == Mohammed Abouzaid, Columbia
    Complex cobordism and Hamiltonian fibrations
  • December 10, 2021 == Urs Frauenfelder, Augsburg
    GIT quotients and symplectic data analysis
  • December 17, 2021 == Wenyuan Li, Northwestern; Jakob Hedicke, Bochum; Johan Asplund, Uppsala
    Estimating Reeb chords using microlocal sheaf theory;
    Lorentzian distance functions on the group of contactomorphisms;
    Simplicial descent for Chekanov-Eliashberg dg-algebras
  • January 14, 2022 == Michael Sullivan, UMass Amherst
    Quantitative Legendrian geometry
  • January 21, 2022 == Susan Tolman, UIUC
    Beyond semitoric
  • January 28, 2022 == Dustin Connery-Grigg, UdeM; Pazit Haim-Kislev, Tel Aviv; Thibaut Mazuir, Paris
    Geometry and topology of Hamiltonian Floer complexes in low-dimension;
    Symplectic capacities of p-products;
    Higher algebra of A-infinity algebras in Morse theory
  • February 11, 2022 == Ely Kerman, UIUC
    On symplectic capacities and their blind spots
  • February 18, 2022 == Umut Varolgunes, Boğaziçi
    TBA
  • February 25, 2022 == Erman Cineli, Paris
    TBA
  • March 4, 2022 == Marie-Claude Arnaud, Paris
    TBA
  • May 14, 2021 == Daniel Álvarez-Gavela, MIT
    Caustics of Lagrangian homotopy spheres with stably trivial Gauss map
  • May 7, 2021 == Laura Starkston, UC Davis
    Unexpected fillings, singularities, and plane curve arrangements
  • April 16, 2021 == Maxim Jeffs, Harvard; Côme Dattin, Nantes; Bingyu Zhang, Institut Fourier, Université Grenoble Alpes
    Mirror symmetry and Fukaya categories of singular varieties;
    Wrapped sutured Legendrian homology and the conormal of braids
    Capacities from the Chiu-Tamarkin complex
  • April 9, 2021 == Sara Tukachinsky, IAS
    Relative quantum cohomology and other stories
  • April 2, 2021 == Sheel Ganatra, USC
    Categorical non-properness in wrapped Floer theory
  • March 26, 2021 == Jesse Huang, UIUC; Shaoyun Bai, Princeton; Thomas Melistas, UGA
    Variation of FLTZ skeleta;
    SU(n)-Casson invariants and symplectic geometry
    The Large-Scale Geometry of Overtwisted Contact Forms
  • March 19, 2021 == Egor Shelukhin, Université de Montréal
    Lagrangian configurations and Hamiltonian maps
  • March 12, 2021 == Oleg Lazarev, Harvard
    Inverting primes in Weinstein geometry
  • March 5, 2021 == Sobhan Seyfaddini, IMJ-PRG
    Periodic Floer homology and the large-scale geometry of Hofer's metric on the sphere
  • February 26, 2021 == Sylvain Courte, Grenoble
    Twisted generating functions and the nearby Lagrangian conjecture
  • February 19, 2021 == Daniel Pomerleano, Boston
    Intrinsic mirror symmetry and categorical crepant resolutions
  • February 12, 2021 == Cheuk Yu Mak, Edinburgh
    Non-displaceable Lagrangian links in four-manifolds
  • February 5, 2021 == Baris Yusuf Kartal, Princeton
    Algebraic torus actions on Fukaya categories and tameness of change in Floer homology
    under symplectic isotopies
  • January 29, 2021 == Alexandre Jannaud (Sorbonne), Tim Large (MIT), Oliver Edtmair (Berkeley)
    Dehn-Seidel twist, C0 symplectic geometry and barcodes;
    Floer K-theory and exotic Liouville manifolds
    3D convex contact forms and the Ruelle invariant
  • January 22, 2021 == Basak Gurel, University of Central Florida
    Pseudo-rotations vs. rotations
  • January 15, 2021 == Lisa Jeffrey, University of Toronto
    Symplectic implosion
  • December 11, 2020 == Zhengyi Zhou, IAS, Princeton
    Hierarchies of contact manifolds via rational SFT
  • December 4, 2020 == Eva Miranda, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
    The singular Weinstein conjecture and the Contact/Beltrami mirror
  • November 27, 2020 == Yu-Wei Fan (Berkeley), Surena Hozoori (Georgia Tech), Marcelo Atallah (Montreal)
    Shifting numbers in triangulated categories;
    Symplectic Geometry of Anosov Flows in Dimension 3 and Bi-Contact Topology;
    Hamiltonian no-torsion
  • November 20, 2020 == Paul Biran, ETH, Zürich
    Persistence and Triangulation in Lagrangian Topology
  • November 13, 2020 == Nick Sheridan, Edinburgh
    Quantum cohomology as a deformation of symplectic cohomology
  • CIRGET
  • November 6, 2020 == Kai Cieliebak, Augsburg
    Secondary coproducts in Morse and Floer homology
  • October 30, 2020 == Simon Allais (ENS Lyon), Orsola Capovilla-Searle (Duke), Julian Chaidez (UCB)
    Generating functions in Hamiltonian dynamics and symplectic-contact rigidity;
    Weinstein handle decompositions of complements of toric divisors in toric 4 manifolds;
    ECH Embedding Obstructions For Rational Surfaces
  • October 23, 2020 == Michael Hutchings, Berkeley
    Examples related to Viterbo's conjectures
  • October 16, 2020 == Umut Varolgunes, Stanford
    Mirror symmetry for chain type polynomials
  • October 9, 2020 == Lev Buhovsky, Tel Aviv
    The Arnold conjecture, spectral invariants and C0 symplectic topology
  • October 2, 2020 == Dusa McDuff, Columbia
    Embedding ellipsoids into the one-point blowup of $\C P^2$
  • September 25, 2020 == Jun Zhang, Montreal
    Triangulated persistence categories
  • September 18, 2020 == Cheol-Hyun Cho, Seoul
    Fukaya category for Landau-Ginzburg orbifolds and Berglund-Hübsch
    homological mirror symmetry for curve singularities
  • September 11, 2020 == Vincent Colin, Nantes
    Reeb dynamics in dimension 3 and broken book decompositions
  • September 4, 2020 == Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell, Uppsala
    Hamiltonian classification and unlinkedness of fibres in cotangent bundles of Riemann surfaces
  • July 24, 2020 == John Pardon, Princeton
    Pontryagin--Thom for orbifold bordism
  • July 17, 2020 == Yusuke Kawamoto (Paris); Shira Tanny (Tel Aviv); Javier Martínez-Aguinaga (Madrid)
    Homogeneous quasimorphism, C0-topology and Lagrangian intersection; Floer theory of disjointly
    supported Hamiltonians; Formal Legendrian and horizontal embeddings
  • July 10, 2020 == Peter Ozsvath, Princeton
    Knot Floer homology and bordered algebras
  • July 3, 2020 == Tara Holm (Cornell)/Ana Rita Pires(Edinburgh)
    Infinite staircases and reflexive polygons (Part of Ellipsoid day joint with
    Western Hemisphere Virtual Symplectic Seminar)
  • June 26 2020 == Ailsa Keating, Cambridge
    Distinguishing monotone Lagrangians via holomorphic annuli
  • June 19 2020 == Igor Uljarevic, Belgrade
    Exotic symplectomorphisms and contact circle action
  • June 12 2020 == Mark Mclean, SUNY, Stony Brook
    Floer Cohomology and Arc Spaces
  • June 5 2020 == Three short research talks
    See https://dms.umontreal.ca/~cornea/Seminar.html
  • May 29 2020 == Alex Oancea, Orsay, Paris
    Duality for Rabinowitz-Floer homology
  • May 22, 2020 == Denis Auroux, Harvard
    Mirrors of curves and their Fukaya categories
  • May 15, 2020 == Jo Nelson, Rice
    Reflections on Cylindrical Contact Homology
  • May 8, 2020 == Marco Mazzucchelli, ENS-Lyon
    Spectral characterizations of Besse and Zoll Reeb flows
  • May 1, 2020 == Alberto Abbondandolo, Bochum
    Zoll contact forms are local maximisers of the systolic ratio
  • April 24, 2020 == Lisa Traynor, Bryn Mawr
    The Geography of Immersed Lagrangian Fillings of Legendrian Submanifolds
  • April 17, 2020 == Nicholas Wilkins, Bristol
    Equivariant quantum operations and relations between them
  • April 10, 2020 == Leonid Polterovich, Tel Aviv
    Geometry of Quantum Uncertainty
  • April 3, 2020 == Daniel Cristofaro-Gardiner, IAS
    The simplicity conjecture
  • March 27, 2020 == Octav Cornea, Montreal
    Fragmentation pseudo-metrics and Lagrangian submanifolds
  • March 13, 2020 == Umut Varolgunes, Stanford
    Super-rigidity of skeleta associated to complements of symplectic divisors
  • February 28, 2020 == Egor Shelukhin, UdeM
    Smith theory in Floer homology, persistence, and dynamics
  • February 21, 2020 == Egor Shelukhin, UdeM
    Smith theory in filtered Floer homology
  • February 14, 2020 == Octav Cornea, UdeM
    Marked Lagrangian submanifolds and Fukaya categories
  • February 7, 2020 == Jean-Philippe Chassé, UdeM
    The topology of Lagrangian submanifolds calibrated by curvature
  • January 31, 2020 == Dustin Connery-Grigg, UdeM
    A Geometric Realization of the Hamiltonian Floer Complex for Surfaces
  • January 24, 2020 == Jun Zhang, CRM-UdeM
    Relative growth rate and contact Banach-Mazur distance
  • January 17, 2020 == Fabian Ziltener, Utrecht University
    Coisotropic submanifolds of symplectic manifolds, leafwise fixed points, and spherical nonsqueezing
  • November 8, 2019 == Richard Hind, Notre Dame
    Packing and squeezing Lagrangian tori
  • November 1, 2019 == Kenji Fukaya, Kyoto University
    Lagrangian Floer theory in the divisor complement
  • October 18, 2019 == Jun Zhang, CRM
    Shape invariant and coarse Banach-Mazur distance
  • October 11, 2019, 1:15 == Dmitry Faifman, CRM
    Holmes-Thompson intrinsic volumes and Finsler manifolds
  • October 4, 2019 == Xiudi Tang, Toronto
    Symplectic ray removal and its applications
  • September 26, 2019 == Pierre-Alexandre Mailhot, Université de Montréal
    The Calabi homomorphism and Lagrangian cobordisms
  • September 20, 2019 == Michael Usher, UGA
    Local rigidity and C0symplectic and contact topology
  • April 12, 2019 == Egor Shelukhin, Université de Montréal
    Viterbo conjecture revisited
  • April 5, 2019 == Emmanuel Giroux, UMI CNRS-CRM
    From Morse functions to symplectic Lefschetz fibrations on cotangent bundles
  • March 29, 2019 == Jeff Hicks, Berkeley
    Wall Crossing and Lagrangian Cobordisms
  • March 22, 2019 == Baptiste Chantraine, Nantes and UMI-CNRS
    Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrian submanifolds and Lagrangian surgeries (continued)
  • March 15, 2019 == Nicholas Wilkins, Oxford/MIT
    Quantum and Floer Steenrod squares
  • March 1, 2019 == Baptiste Chantraine, Nantes and UMI-CNRS
    Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrian submanifolds and Lagrangian surgeries
  • February 15, 2019 == Brent Pym, McGill
    Holonomic Poisson manifolds
  • February 8, 2019 == Basak Gurel, U Central Florida, Orlando
    Dynamics of Hamiltonian pseudo-rotations
  • February 1, 2019, 14:40 == Gael Meigniez, U de Bretagne-Sud
    A proof of the Mather-Thurston theorem
  • February 1, 2019 == Alexandre Perrier, Université de Montréal
    Lagrangian cobordism groups of surfaces of genus higher than one
  • January 25, 2019 == Egor Shelukhin, Université de Montréal
    Viterbo conjecture for Zoll symmetric spaces
  • December 7, 2018 == Alexandre Perrier, Université de Montréal
    Lagrangian cobordism groups of surfaces of genus higher than one
  • November 30, 2018 == Egor Shelukhin, Université de Montréal
    Viterbo conjecture for Zoll symmetric spaces
  • November 16, 2018 == Amiel Peiffer-Smadja, Nantes
    Functoriality of the Open-Closed map
  • November 9, 2018 == Caitlin Leverson, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • October 26, 2018 == Baptiste Chantraine, Nantes et UMI CNRS - CRM
    Categories associated to Legendrian links II
  • October 12, 2018, 14:35 == Jeremy Lane, University of Geneva
    Gelfand-Zeitlin, Ginzburg-Weinstein, and partial tropicalization
  • October 12, 2018, 13:30 == Dan Rutherford, Ball State University
    Immersed Lagrangian cobordisms and augmentations
  • September 28, 2018 == Michael Sullivan, UMASS Amherst and CRM
    Cellular contact homology, augmentations and generating families for Legendrian surfaces
  • September 21, 2018 == Baptiste Chantraine, Nantes et UMI CNRS - CRM
    Categories associated to Legendrian links

Category Theory Seminar

  • January 23, 2023 == Ludovic D'Anjou-Madore, UQAM
    Catégories de flèches et adjonctions
  • February 6, 2023 == Ludovic D'Anjou-Madore, UQAM
    Catégories de flèches et adjonctions II, (un) théorème de Lawvere
  • February 20, 2023 == Ludovic D'Anjou-Madore, UQAM
    Yoneda, densité et cocomplétion libre
  • March 6, 2023 == Marc-André Brochu, UQAM
    Limites et Colimites
  • March 20, 2023 == Marc-André Brochu, UQAM
    Limites et Colimites II
  • April 17, 2023 == Benjamin Dequêne, UQAM
    Les complexes simpliciaux
  • May 1, 2023 == Ludovic D'Anjou-Madore, UQAM
    Constructions élémentaires dans les ensembles simpliciaux

Working Groups 2024-25

Working Group in complex geometry - Organized by Chung-Ming Pan

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

Working Groups 2021-22

Working Group in Low-dimensional Topology - Organized by Tyrone Ghaswala

The working group is held on Mondays at 3:00 PM in PK-5675, UQAM

Working Group in Algebraic and Differential Geometry - Organized by Nathan Grieve, Steven Lu and Julien Keller

The working group is held on Thursdays at 12:30 PM in PK-5675, UQAM

  • December 9, 2021 == Steven Lu, UQAM
    On the moduli of elliptic curves
  • December 16, 2021 == Xuankien Phung, UQAM
    On Parshin-Arakelov theorem and uniformity of integral sections on elliptic surfaces
  • January 20, 2022 == Ruiran Sun, McGill
    An introduction to non-abelian Hodge theory
  • January 27, 2022 == Xia Xiao, UQAM
    Siu's invariance of plurigenera
  • February 2, 2022 == Ariyan Javanpeykar, Johannes Gutenberg Universität
    On Shafarevich's theorem
  • February 10, 2022 == Michael Albanese, UQAM
    Almost Complex Structures on Four-Manifolds
  • February 17, 2022 == Houari Benammar, UQAM
    An introduction to the notion of singular hermitian metric and positivity
    of the direct image of twisted relative canonical bundle
  • March 10, 2022 == Nathan Grieve, RMC, Carleton
    About Fourier transform techniques for derived categories and Chow rings of Abelian varieties
  • March 1, 2022 == Behrouz Taji, UNSW Sydney
    Shafarevich conjecture; Hodge theory meets birational geometry and moduli
  • March 24, 2022 == Frédéric Rochon, UQAM
    On Donaldson's theorem describing the moduli space of SU(2) monopoles on R3
  • March 31, 2022 == Dan Popovici, Toulouse
    Two Notions of Hyperbolicity For Compact Complex Manifolds in Complex Codimension One

Working Groups 2019-20

  • Mondays
    1:00 PM == Working Group in low-dimensional topology
    PK-5675, UQAM. Organizer: Tyrone Ghaswala

Working Groups 2018-19

  • Tuesdays
    10:00 - 12:00 == Working Group in low-dimensional topology
    PK-5675, UQAM. Organizers: Steven Boyer and Biji Wong
  • Mondays
    1:30 - 3:30 == Kähler Geometry Working Group
    PK-5675, UQAM. Organizer: Lars Sektnan