Past events

Events at the Centre for Symmetry and Deformation.

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2 May - 6 May 2016

Masterclass: Expanders and rigidity of group actions

The purpose is to give an introduction to the theory of expander graphs, and present some of their recent applications to important problems in geometric (and analytic) group theory, and to operator algebras.

26 Apr. 2016, 15:15-16:15

Derived Algebraic Geometry Seminar

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25 Apr. 2016, 15:15-16:15

Algebra/Topology seminar

Joan Bellier-Millès on 'Complex structures and homotopy algebras'

19 Apr. 2016, 15:15-16:15

Harald Bohr Lecture: Alain Connes

Alain Connes (Professor at the Collège de France, IHES, and Distinguished Professor at Ohio State University) will talk about "Geometry and the Quantum".

18 Apr. - 20 Apr. 2016

Arithmetic Geometry and Topological Cyclic Homology

Workshop organized by Alain Connes, Caterina Consani, and Lars Hesselholt.

15 Apr. 2016, 15:15

Seminar: What is ... a Laplace approximation?

Niels Olsen will give a talk about what is a Laplace approximation?

This lecture is part of the  "What is..?" seminar.

14 Apr. 2016, 15:15-16:15

Algebra/Topology seminar

Anders Buch on 'Puzzles, Gromov-Witten invariants, and equivariant cohomology of 
two-step flag varieties'

13 Apr. 2016, 12:15-13:00

SYM lecture: Quantum cohomology

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11 Apr. 2016, 15:15-16:15

Algebra/Topology seminar

John Lind on 'T-duality and iterated algebraic K-theory'

11 Apr. 2016, 13:15-14:00

Algebra/Topology pre-talk

Pre-talk to the Algebra/Topology seminar by John Lind.

8 Apr. 2016, 15:15-16:15

Seminar: (Gelfand's) Formal Geometry and the Algebraic Index Theorem

Speaker: Niek de Kleijn. The lecture is part of the ALG/NCG/TOP Ph.D. students' seminar.

8 Apr. 2016, 14:15-15:15

Number Theory Seminar

Kazim Buyukboduk will speak about Perrin-Riou's conjecture and rational points on supersingular elliptic curves.

4 Apr. 2016, 15:15-16:15

Algebra/Topology seminar

Tobias Dyckerhoff on 'Relative Calabi-Yau structures'

4 Apr. 2016, 13:15-14:00

Algebra/Topology pre-talk

Pre-talk to the Algebra/Topology seminar by Tobias Dyckerhoff.

30 Mar. 2016, 15:15-16:15

Operator algebra seminar

Seminar talk by M. Whittaker (Glasgow): "Self-similar group actions and KMS states"

29 Mar. 2016, 15:15

Algebra/topology seminar

Weiyan Chen on 'Twisted cohomology of braid groups and algebraic varieties over finite fields'

29 Mar. 2016, 13:15-14:00

Algebra/Topology pre-talk

Pre-talk to the Algebra/Topology seminar by Weiyan Chen.

16 Mar. 2016, 12:15-13:00

SYM lecture: Index theorems: how they govern (some aspects of) geometry

By Thomas Schick. This a talk in our monthly SYM lecture series. It is colloquim style, and aimed at all members of the center. Sandwiches are provided from 12:05. Place: Aud 8.

14 Mar. 2016, 15:15-16:15

Algebra/topology seminar

Anssi Lahtinen on 'Modular characteristic classes for representations over finite fields'

14 Mar. 2016, 13:15-14:00

Algebra/Topology pre-talk

Pre-talk to the Algebra/Topology seminar by Anssi Lahtinen and David Sprehn.

9 Mar. 2016, 15:15-16:15

Operator algebra seminar

Seminar talk by Sven Raum (Muenster): "C*-simple and non-C*-simple locally compact groups".

7 Mar. 2016, 15:15-16:15

Algebra/topology seminar

Sebastian Thyssen on 'Towards a construction of genera for p-local (topological) automorphic forms’'

7 Mar. 2016, 13:15-14:00

Algebra/Topology pre-talk

Pre-talk to the Algebra/Topology seminar by Sebastian Thyssen.

4 Mar. 2016, 15:15

Seminar: What is ... a large cardinal?

David Schritesser will give a talk about what is a large cardinal?

This talk is a part of the "What is" seminar.

29 Feb. 2016, 15:15-16:15

Algebra/topology seminar

Sam Nariman on 'the moduli space of flat surface bundles'