Past events

Events at the Centre for Symmetry and Deformation.

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16 Jan. 2015, 15:15-16:15

Seminar: What is... a tangent groupoid?

Niek de Kleijn - What is... a tangent groupoid?

16 Jan. 2015, 14:15-15:15

Number Theory Seminar

Sho Tanimoto will talk about the "Distribution of rational points on algebraic varieties."

16 Jan. 2015, 13:15-14:14

Drinfeld and Hopf centers and their applications

Seminar by Robert Laugwitz

15 Jan. 2015, 15:15-17:00

The Baum-Connes conjecture for p-adic groups

Baby NCG Seminar by Kang Li.

15 Jan. 2015, 14:15-15:15

Number Theory Seminar

Marta Pieropan will talk "On the distribution of rational points on Fano varieties over number fields."

14 Jan. 2015, 12:05-13:00

SYM lecture: When does a group act properly on a contractible n-manifold?

Expository lecture by Mike Davis. This a talk in our monthly SYM lecture series, aimed at all members of the center. Sandwiches are provided. Place: Aud 3.

13 Jan. 2015, 15:15-16:15

Goodwillie approximations to higher categories

Algebra / Topology Seminar. Speaker: Gijsbert Heuts, Harvard University.

12 Jan. 2015, 15:15-16:15

Cohomology of finite general linear groups

Algebra / Topology Seminar. Speaker: David Sprehn, University of Washington.

12 Jan. 2015, 14:10-15:10

Knörrer Periodicity and Bott Periodicity.

Algebra / Topology Seminar. Speaker: Mickael Brown 

9 Jan. 2015, 13:15-14:15

Seminar: What is... a modular form?

MOVED: Nadim Rustom - What is a modular form?

9 Jan. 2015, 10:00-11:00

Number Theory Seminar

Lombardi: Deformations of minimal cohomology classes and regularity.

7 Jan. 2015, 13:15

Spaces of Piecewise Linear Manifolds

PhD defense ved Mauricio Gómez López

6 Jan. 2015, 15:15-16:15

Derived stacks of algebraic structures

Algebra / Topology Seminar. Speaker: Sinan Yalin.

5 Jan. 2015, 15:15-16:15

Algebra/Topology seminar

Algebra/Topology seminar: Noncommutative plane curves. Speaker: Søren Jøndrup.

17 Dec. 2014, 12:05-13:00

SYM lecture: The Thompson groups F, T, V and their C*- and von Neumann algebras

Expository 45 minute SYM lecture by Uffe Haagerup.  Sandwiches provided.

15 Dec. - 16 Dec. 2014

Number Theory Days I

Seven speakers in different branches of Number Theory.

12 Dec. 2014, 13:15-14:15

Seminar: What is... a II_1 factor?

Søren Knudby - What is a II_1 factor?

11 Dec. 2014, 13:15

Algebra and Arithmetic of Modular Forms

PhD defense with Nadim Rustom

8 Dec. 2014, 15:15-16:15

Algebra/Topology seminar

Conchita Martinez-Perez on 'the proper geometric dimension of lattices in classical Lie groups'

5 Dec. 2014, 15:15-16:15

Seminar: What is... a partial group?

Isabelle Laude - What is a partial group?

5 Dec. 2014, 13:15-14:15

Number Theory seminar: Anna Arnth-Jensen

Exhibiting non-trivial elements of the Tate-Shafarevich group for the Jacobian of a hyperelliptic curve

3 Dec. 2014, 15:15-16:15

Operator algebra seminar

Hiroshi Ando: On the noncommutativity of the central sequence algebra F(A)

1 Dec. 2014, 15:15-16:15

Topology seminar

Filipp Levikov on 'Quadratic L-theory and the fibre of the cyclotomic trace'

26 Nov. 2014, 15:15-16:15

Operator algebra seminar

Operator algebra seminar by Bartosz Kwasniewski

26 Nov. 2014, 12:05-13:00

SYM speed date: PhD students

The November SYM lecture is replaced by 8-minute blackboard presentations by the SYM PhD students.