Past events

Events at the Centre for Symmetry and Deformation.

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25 Nov. 2015, 12:15-13:00

SYM lecture: Semigroup C*-algebras

By Joachim Cuntz (Münster). 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.

20 Nov. 2015, 13:15

Experimental Mathematics Colloquium

Moritz Firsching: Experimenting with polytopes and getting it exactly right

20 Nov. 2015, 13:15-14:15

Seminar on graph complexes, GRT action on forms and formality for chains

Reading seminar on T. Willwacher's "The Grothendieck-Teichmüller group action on differential forms and formality morphism of chains" (arXiv:1308.6097). Makoto Yamashita talks continues on the formulation of the main theorem.

19 Nov. 2015, 15:15-16:15

Algebra/Topology seminar

Robert Kucharczyk on 'Modular embeddings for triangle groups'

18 Nov. 2015, 14:15-15:15

Operator Algebra seminar

Seminar talk by Eduardo Scarparo: "Supramenable groups and tracial states on partial crossed products"

17 Nov. 2015, 13:00-14:15

algebra/topology seminar

 Damian Osajda on Coarsely aspherical groups

12 Nov. 2015, 14:15-15:15

Lecture series "Quasidiagonality of nuclear C*-algebras"

Lecture 6 by Wilhelm Winter (WWU Münster)

12 Nov. 2015, 11:15-12:15

Lecture series "Quasidiagonality of nuclear C*-algebras"

Lecture 5 by Aaron Tikuisis (University of Aberdeen)

11 Nov. 2015, 14:15-15:15

Lecture series "Quasidiagonality of nuclear C*-algebras"

Lecture 4 by Stuart White (University of Glasgow)

11 Nov. 2015, 11:15-12:15

Lecture series "Quasidiagonality of nuclear C*-algebras"

Lecture 3 by Aaron Tikuisis (University of Aberdeen)

11 Nov. 2015, 10:15-11:15

Lecture series "Quasidiagonality of nuclear C*-algebras"

Lecture 2.5 by Søren Eilers

10 Nov. 2015, 16:15-17:15

Number Theory Seminar: Alan Hertgen

On Tuesday, November 11, Alan Hertgen (Bordeaux) will give a Number Theory Seminar titled "Splitting properties of the reduction of semi-abelian varieties". The talk is in Aud 8, starting at 16:15.

10 Nov. 2015, 13:45-14:45

Lecture series "Quasidiagonality of nuclear C*-algebras"

Lecture 2 by Wilhelm Winter (WWU Münster)

10 Nov. 2015, 11:15-12:15

Lecture series "Quasidiagonality of nuclear C*-algebras"

Lecture 1 by Stuart White (University of Glasgow) 

9 Nov. - 13 Nov. 2015

Automorphisms of free groups. November 9-13

Workshop on Automorphisms of free groups. See the webpage of the conference for more details. 

6 Nov. 2015, 14:15

Joint Number theory/Geometry and analysis seminar

Speaker: Niko Laaksonen UCL visiting KU
Title: Lattice Point Counting in Sectors of Hyperbolic Space

5 Nov. 2015, 14:15-16:00

PhD defense: Matthias Grey

Auditorium 4.

4 Nov. 2015, 15:15-16:15

Operator Algebra seminar

Seminar talk by Martin Finn-Sell (Vienna): "Large girth families in coarse geometry and operator algebras"

2 Nov. 2015, 15:15-16:15

Algebra/Topology seminar

Sho Tanimoto on 'Distribution of rational points on algebraic varieties'

30 Oct. 2015, 14:15-17:30

Ostrowski Prize 2015 - ceremony and lecture

Ceremony in honour of the recipient of the 2015 Ostrowski Prize: Peter Scholze, Bonn.

30 Oct. 2015, 13:00-14:00

Seminar on graph complexes, GRT action on forms and formality for chains

Reading seminar on T. Willwacher's "The Grothendieck-Teichmüller group action on differential forms and formality morphism of chains" (arXiv:1308.6097). Makoto Yamashita talks on the stable formality (Dolgushev) and the formulation of main theorems.

29 Oct. 2015, 15:15-16:15

Harald Bohr Lecture: Gerd Faltings

Gerd Faltings (Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics, Bonn) will talk about "Diophantine equations".

28 Oct. 2015, 15:15-16:15

Operator Algebra Seminar

Seminar Talk by Ulrich Pennig (WWU Münster): "Deformations of nilpotent groups and homotopy symmetric C*-algebras"

28 Oct. 2015, 15:15-16:15

Algebra/Topology seminar

Boris Botvinnik on 'Stable moduli spaces of high dimensional handlebodies'

26 Oct. 2015, 15:15-16:15

Algebra/Topology seminar

Lennart Meier on 'Duality for Real spectra'