Seminar Archives
On this page you can find information about seminars in this and previous academic years, where available on the database.
Geometry and Topology Seminar
Seminars are usually held on Thursday at 13:00 in CM221, but you should check the seminar details for exceptions. Contact mark.a.powell@durham.ac.uk or andrew.lobb@durham.ac.uk or wilhelm.klingenberg@durham.ac.uk for more information about this seminar series.
- 7 June 2018 13:05: tba - Masoumeh Zarei, BICRM Beijing University
- 24 May 2018 13:05: tba - David Stuart (Newcastle)
- 17 May 2018 13:00: Homological stability of groups - Rachael Boyd, University of Aberdeen
- 10 May 2018 13:05: Localization by needles associated to a Lipshitz function on the Heisenberg group - Sanuel Borza, Durham University
- 3 May 2018 13:00: Long scale Ollivier-Ricci curvature on graphs - Supanat Kamtue, Durham
- 26 April 2018 13:00: On lambda convex sets - Ben Pooley, University of Warwick
- 29 March 2018 14:00: Ideal classes and Cappell-Shaneson homotopy 4-spheres - Min Hoon Kim, KIAS
- 29 March 2018 13:00: Exceptional 3-manifolds - Stefan Friedl, Universitat Regensburg
- 28 March 2018 15:00: A wander in the space of β-transformations - Tony Samuel, California Polytechnic State University
- 15 March 2018 13:00: Ultra-parallel complex hyperbolic triangle groups - Sam Povall, Liverpool
- 8 March 2018 13:00: Hochschild cohomology of differential graded categories and spectral sequences - Frank Neumann, University of Leicester
- 2 March 2018 11:00: Geometry Day - N Julliet, A Figalli, L Scardia, J Cork, D Ballesteros-Chavez, U Strasbourg, ETH Zuerich, U Bath, U Leeds, Durham U
- 1 March 2018 13:00: On the Brunn-Minkowski inequality - Nicolas Juillet, Universite Paul Sabatier Strasbourg
- 22 February 2018 13:00: The associated families of isothermic, CMC and constrained Willmore surfaces - Katrin Leschke, University of Leicester
- 15 February 2018 13:00: Geometry of continued fractions - Oleg Karpenkov, Liverpool
- 8 February 2018 13:00: The Conway topograph and continued fractions - Katie Spalding, Loughborough
- 1 February 2018 13:00: Equivariant spectrum on Toric Kaehler manifolds - Yuguo Qin, USTC Hefei and Durham University
- 25 January 2018 13:00: The prescribed Weingarten curvatures problem in hyperbolic space - Daniel Ballesteros-Chavez, Durham University
- 18 January 2018 13:00: Integrals over unitary groups, maps on surfaces, and Euler characteristics - Michael Magee, Durham University
- 14 December 2017 13:00: Homotopical ideas in the theory of knots - Markus Szymik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- 7 December 2017 13:00: Stable diffeomorphism of 4-manifolds - Daniel Kasprowski, Universitat Bonn
- 30 November 2017 13:00: Algebraic knots, braids and slice genus - Peter Feller, ETH Zurich
- 23 November 2017 13:00: A Geometric Approach to the p-adic Littlewood Conjecture - John Blackman, Durham
- 16 November 2017 13:00: Cascades in the dynamics of affine interval exchange transformations - Selim Ghazouani, Warwick University
- 9 November 2017 13:00: Piecewise linear concordance of knots - JungHwan Park, MPIM Bonn
- 2 November 2017 13:00: Moduli spaces of patterns and their cohomology. - Jamie Walton, Durham.
- 26 October 2017 13:00: Knotted fields and real algebraic links - Benjamin Bode, Bristol University
- 19 October 2017 13:00: Doubled Khovanov homology - William Rushworth, Durham University
- 12 October 2017 13:00: Infinite rank surface cluster algebras - Ilke Canakci, Durham University
- 5 October 2017 13:00: Neutral Causal Topology - Brendan Guilfoyle , IT Tralee
- 22 June 2017 13:00: An introduction to the theory of Optimal Transport - Wilhelm Klingenberg
- 15 June 2017 13:00: The needle decomposition and isoperimetric inequalities in nonnegative Ricci curvature - Samuel Borza, Mons and Durham
- 8 June 2017 11:00: Cusp regions associated to parabolic screw motions - John Parker, Durham
- 25 May 2017 13:00: Harnack inequalities for parabolic equations from a geometric perspective - Mihai Bailesteanu, Conneticut
- 18 May 2017 13:00: Flowing to linear Hopf spheres - Brendan Guilfoyle, IT Tralee
- 11 May 2017 13:05: Ollivier-Ricci idleness functions of graphs - David Cushing, Durham University
- 4 May 2017 13:00: The X-ray Transform on 2-step nilpotent Lie Groups - Evi Samiou, University of Cyprus
- 27 April 2017 13:00: Asymptotic analysis of partially degenerating multi-scale variational problems - Shane Cooper, Bath
- 16 March 2017 13:00: The Lévy-Gromov Isoperimetric Inequality - Samuel Borza, Université de Mons/Durham University
- 9 March 2017 13:00: Geography of complex varieties: Severi inequality - Tong Zhang, Durham University
- 2 March 2017 13:00: Recent developments in 3-manifold topology - Stefan Friedl, Regensburg
- 24 February 2017 11:45: Yorkshire Durham Geometry Day in CM301 - D Cushing (Durham), B Lambert (UCL), A Mondino (Warwick), L Nguyen (Oxford)
- 23 February 2017 13:00: The moduli space of points in the boundary of quaternionic hyperbolic space - Wensheng Cao, Wuyi University
- 16 February 2017 13:00: Stability of the Steiner symmetrization of convex sets - Filippo Cagnetti , University of Sussex
- 9 February 2017 13:00: Regularity of the moduli space of parallel ovaloids - Wilhelm Klingenberg, Durham University
- 1 February 2017 13:00: tba - Yguo Qin, USTC Hefei
- 25 January 2017 13:00: tba - Yuguo Qin , University of Science and Technology of China
- 25 January 2017 13:00: tba - Yuguo Qin, USTC Hefei
- 19 January 2017 13:00: Ricci Solitons and Quasi Einstein metrics on toric surfaces - Stuart Hall , Newcastle
- 15 December 2016 13:00: Messing around with filtrations - Andrew Lobb, Durham
- 8 December 2016 13:00: Genericity of holomorphic discs with boundary - Wilhelm Klingenberg, Durham
- 1 December 2016 13:00: Maths in crystal structure analysis - Oleg Dolomanov, Durham (OlexSys Software developing company)
- 24 November 2016 13:00: Eigenvalue estimates for the magnetic Laplacian on Riemannian manifolds - Norbert Peyerimhoff, Durham University
- 17 November 2016 13:00: SL_2-tilings, infinite triangulations, and continuous cluster categories (report on joint work with Christine Bessenrodt and Thorsten Holm) - Peter Jorgensen, Newcastle University
- 27 October 2016 12:00: Crystal structure determination with Olex2 - And what you no longer need to know. - Horst Puschmann, Durham (Chemistry)
- 20 October 2016 13:00: Geometric realizations of quiver mutations. - Anna Felikson, Durham.
- 20 October 2016 13:00: Geometric Realisations of Quiver Mutations - Anna Felikson, Durham
- 23 June 2016 13:00: The polynomial method in incidence geometry and harmonic analysis. - Marina Iliopoulou., Birmingham University.
- 5 May 2016 13:00: On homogeneous Lagrangian submanifolds in complex hyperbolic spaces. - Toru Kajigaya, Osaka City.
- 28 April 2016 13:00: Two-systoles of hyperbolic three-manifolds. - Misha Belolipetsky
- 10 March 2016 13:00: TBA. - John Parker, Durham.
- 25 February 2016 13:00: Projectivity of Banach and C*-algebras of continuous fields. - David Cushing., Durham.
- 23 February 2016 13:00: tba - Ben Lambert , University of Konstanz
- 18 February 2016 13:00: Flowing to non-round Weingarten spheres. - Brendan Guilfoyle., Tralee.
- 11 February 2016 13:00: Interactive Visualization for Singular Fibers of Functions f : R^3 -> R^2. - Hamish Carr., Leeds.
- 4 February 2016 13:00: Characterizing non-positive curvature via an isoperimetric inequality. - Stefan Wenger., Fribourg.
- 28 January 2016 13:00: TBA. - John Lawson., Durham.
- 17 December 2015 13:00: Geography of complex varieties: an introduction. - Tong Zhang., Durham.
- 10 December 2015 13:00: What are Damek-Ricci spaces? - Norbert Peyerimhoff., Durham.
- 3 December 2015 13:00: A homological view of invariant measures. - John Hunton, Durham.
- 26 November 2015 13:00: Hyperbolic Coxeter polytopes. - Pavel Tumarkin., Durham.
- 19 November 2015 13:00: TBA. - Chris Smithers, Durham.
- 12 November 2015 13:00: On the Existence of Convex Surfaces with Prescribed k-Symmetric Curvatures. - Daniel Ballesteros., Durham.
- 5 November 2015 14:00: Tight, non-fillable contact structures on 3-manifolds. - Andy Wand., Glasgow.
- 29 October 2015 13:00: Equivariant minimal surfaces in the complex hyperbolic plane, and surface group representations. - Ian McIntosh., York.
- 8 October 2015 13:00: Complex hyperbolic triangle groups - John Parker, Durham.
- 21 May 2015 13:00: Deligne-Mostow lattices and cone metrics on the sphere. - Irene Pasquinelli., Durham.
- 12 March 2015 13:00: Branched covering in 4 dimensions. - Daniele Zuddas, KIAS.
- 9 March 2015 11:00: Reconstruction and estimation of rigid functions based on local data. - Ivan Veselic, TU Chemnitz, Germany
- 5 March 2015 13:00: Heegaard Floer homology, Dehn surgery and the mapping cone formula. - Fyodor Gainullin., Imperial College.
- 26 February 2015: Schrödinger operators with delta and delta' potentials supported on hypersurfaces - Matthias Langer, University of Strathclyde
- 19 February 2015: NON-KAHLER COMPLEX STRUCTURES ON R4. - Naohiko Kasuya, Tokyo University
- 12 February 2015 13:00: New results about noncompact harmonic and asymptotically harmonic spaces. - Norbert Peyerimhoff., Durham.
- 5 February 2015 13:00: Topological 4-manifolds as branched coverings of S^4 - continued. - Daniele Zuddas, KIAS.
- 29 January 2015 13:00: Deformations of link homologies. - Paul Wedrich., Cambridge.
- 22 January 2015 13:00: - Daniele Zuddas, Korea Institute of Advanced Study.
- 15 January 2015 13:00: - Patrick Orson, Durham
- 11 December 2014: Saturation in the hypercube. - Natasha Morrison, Oxford
- 4 December 2014 13:00: Smooth surfaces in 4-space and me. - Andrew Lobb, Durham.
- 27 November 2014 13:00: Homotopy types and Khovanov cohomology. - Dan Jones, Durham
- 6 November 2014 13:00: Handle cancellation in flow categories and the stable Khovanov homotopy type - Dirk Schütz, Durham University
- 30 October 2014 13:00: Schrödinger operators with delta-potentials on manifolds - Christian Kühn, Strathclyde
- 23 October 2014 13:00: The Alexander polynomial as a Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant. - Jonathan Grant, Durham
- 16 October 2014 13:00: Parabolic isometries of hyperbolic spaces and discreteness. - John Parker, Durham
- 5 June 2014 00:00: An equivalent of Pestov's Identity for the principal bundle of orthonormal frames of a manifold - Michela Egidi, Durham
- 20 March 2014: - Nikos Georgiou, University Sao Paulo
- 13 March 2014: Many polytopal realizations of generalized associahedra - Carsten Lange, Durham University
- 12 March 2014 11:00: Homeomorphisms between aperiodic tiling spaces - Antoine Julien, (NTNU Norway)
- 6 March 2014: - Robert Royals., Durham.
- 27 February 2014: Coxeter groups, cluster algebras, and geometric manifolds - Pavel Tumarkin, Durham
- 13 February 2014: Non-arithmetic lattices in SU(2,1). - John Parker, Durham
- 6 February 2014: Non-arithmetic lattices in SU(2,1). - John Parker, Durham
- 30 January 2014: Non-arithmetic lattices in SU(2,1) - John Parker, Durham
- 12 December 2013: Topological aspects of the functionality of DNA. - Karin Valencia, IHES
- 28 November 2013 13:00: The Dirichlet problem at infinity for asymptotically harmonic manifolds - Norbert Peyerimhoff, Durham University
- 21 November 2013 13:00: Kendall-type theorem for generalized harmonic maps - Shiping Liu, Durham University
- 7 November 2013 13:00: The 1-form Lapacianb on a graph-like manifold - Michela Egidi, Durham University
- 24 October 2013 13:00: Topological perspectives on Aperiodic patterns - John Hunton, Durham University
- 17 October 2013 00:00: Orderable groups and Heegaard Floer homology - Mauro Mauricio, Renyi Institute, Budapest
- 16 May 2013 13:00: What I know about instantons. - Andrew Lobb
- 28 February 2013: Symbolic dynamics for multi-bump magnetic fields in the euclidean plane. - Frank Schulz, Dortmund
- 14 February 2013 13:00: Classifying unitary matrices - John R Parker, Durham University
- 31 January 2013 13:00: Hurwitz numbers in geometry and physics. - Sergey Shadrin, University of Amsterdam & Isaac Newton Institute
