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.

  • October 30, 2026 == Eric Bahuaud, Seattle University
    Basics of the Bach flow

  • October 9, 2026 == Mariel Sáez Trumper, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
    Special Solutions to Mean Curvature Flow on Three-Manifolds with Lie Group Structure

  • October 2, 2026 == Boris Zupancic, McGill
    Reduction of singularities in Poisson geometry via weighted blowups

  • September 25, 2026 == Philippe Eyssidieux, Université Grenoble-Alpes
    Non-abelian Hodge Theoretic aspects of TQFT

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 2:30 PM in 1104 Burnside Hall, McGill

  • September 30, 2026 == Aleksandr Trufanov, Université de Montréal
    Weak order on groups generated by involutions

  • September 23, 2026 == Bojun Zhao, UQAM
    R-covered foliations, left-orderability, and Dehn fillings

  • September 16, 2026 == Dani Wise, Weizmann Institute
    Persistent embeddings of residually finite groups

  • September 9, 2026 == Dani Wise, Weizmann Institute
    Semi special Cube complexes

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

Time to be determined, PK-5675, UQAM

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

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

  • September 16, 2026 at 3:00 pm == Philippe Eyssidieux, Université Grenoble-Alpes
    Algebraic solutions to Griffiths’ infinitesimal period relations

  • Monday, August 24, 2026, 4:00 PM == Shivang Jindal, EPFL
    The Loop-Nilpotent Cohomological Hall Algebra and Coulomb Branches

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 Lawford Hatcher, Pengfei Guan, Alina Stancu and Jérôme Vétois

The seminar is held on Thursdays at 2:45 PM in 1104 Burnside Hall, McGill