The London topology and geometry seminar
  

The seminar is held jointly by Imperial College, King's College, and Queen Mary, University of London, with visitors from Cambridge, Oxford, Warwick and other universities. It is designed for anyone visiting London on a Friday afternoon.


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The organiser is: Mark Haskins. Some older organisers of the London Geometry seminar: Shaun Bullett, Simon Donaldson, Bill Harvey, Du Val, Roth, and Semple.

Timetable

2009

  • Tuesday September 29th. Room 130, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    4:10pm Alan Weinstein (Berkeley) : On the Poisson brackets of constraints for Einstein's equations. Abstract

  • Friday October 9th. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1.30pm Iain Aitchison (Melbourne): A concept of genus for finitely presented groups. Abstract

  • Friday October 16th. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1:30pm Jeff Giansiracusa (Oxford): Formality of the framed little discs operad and 3-dimensional handlebodies. Abstract

  • Friday October 23rd. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1:30pm Paul Johnson (Imperial) : Equivariant Gromov-Witten theory of orbifold curves and Integrable Hierarchies. Abstract

  • Friday October 30th. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1:30pm Julius Ross (Cambridge): Constant scalar curvature orbifold metrics and stability of orbifolds through embeddings in weighted projective spaces. Abstract

  • Friday November 6th. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1:30pm Andre Neves (Imperial) : Rigidity theorems for 3-manifolds with positive scalar curvature. Abstract

  • Friday November 13th. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1:30pm Sven Meinhardt (Oxford) : How to interpret modern Donaldson-Thomas theory? Abstract

  • Friday November 20th. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1:30pm Cristina Manolache (Humboldt): Virtual Intersections. Abstract

  • Friday November 27th. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1:30pm Luis Alvarez-Consul (Madrid): Moduli of quiver sheaves. Abstract

  • TUESDAY December 1st. Room 408, Huxley Building, Imperial College. Special Oxford HoRSe seminar.
    1:30 Simon Donaldson (Imperial): Gauge theory and exceptional holonomy. Abstract
    3pm Simon Donaldson (Imperial): Moduli of Calabi-Yau 3-folds and instantons on G_2 manifolds. Abstract

  • THURSDAY December 3rd. Room 342, Huxley Building, Imperial College. Special COW seminar.
    3pm Simon Donaldson (Imperial): Algebro-geometric aspects of the Kähler-Einstein problem
    4.15 Junmyeong Jang (Seoul): The semi-positivity theorem and the generic p-rank

  • Friday December 4th. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1:30pm Albrecht Klemm (Bonn): Direct integration in Matrix Models and Topological String Theory. Abstract

  • Friday December 11th. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1:30pm Alessandro Ghigi (Milan): Satake compactifications, moment map and first eigenvalue of the Laplacian. Abstract

  • Friday December 18th. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1:30pm Julien Grivaux (Jussieu and Imperial): Topological properties of symplectic and almost-complex punctual Hilbert schemes. Abstract

    2010

  • Friday January 15th. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1:30pm Nick Addington (Imperial): Derived Categories of Intersections of Quadrics. Abstract

  • Friday January 22nd. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1:30pm Vincent Minerbe (Jussieu): On ALF gravitational instantons. Abstract

  • Friday January 29th. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1:30pm Brendan Guilfoyle (Tralee): Neutral Kaehler geometry, mean curvature flow and holomorphic discs. Abstract

  • Friday February 5th. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1:30pm Kentaro Nagao (Oxford and Kyoto): Vertex operators in Donaldson-Thomas theory. Abstract

  • Friday February 12th. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1:30pm Rosa Sena-Dias (Lisbon): Scalar-flat Kahler metrics on non-compact toric surfaces. Abstract

  • Friday February 19th. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1:30pm Huy Nguygen (Warwick) Generalized Sphere Theorems and Curvature Flows. Abstract

  • Friday March 5th. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1:30pm Andras Juhasz (Cambridge): Cobordisms of sutured manifolds. Abstract

  • Friday March 12th. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1:30pm Andreas Ott (ETH Zurich): (TBA) Abstract

  • Friday March 19th. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1:30pm Joel Fine (Brussels): (TBA) Abstract

  • Friday March 26th. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1:30pm Kirill Krasnov (Nottingham): (TBA) Abstract




  • Friday May 7th. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1:30pm Grigory Mikhalkin (Toronto) : (TBA) Abstract

  • Friday May 21st. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1:30pm Irmak Elmas (TBA) Abstract

  • Friday May 28th. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1:30pm Robert Berman (Chalmers): (TBA) Abstract

  • Friday June 25th. Room 140, Huxley Building, Imperial College.
    1:30pm Simon Brendle (Stanford) : (TBA) Abstract

  • Previous talks: 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, and earlier.

    • Maps

    London Underground map.
    Getting to the LMS building (De Morgan House, 57-58 Russell Square). Ring the bell and say the password that is included in the email announcing the talk. This is for LMS security reasons. Directions on joining the email list are given above.
    Getting to Imperial College. Do not get the tunnel to Exhibition Road; the maths department is in the Huxley Building, 180 Queen's Gate, opposite Queen's Gate Terrace. Gloucester Road is the closest tube station.
    Getting to King's College. Tea in room 429, seminar in 436.
    Getting to QMW. From Stepney Green tube go left along Mile End Road for about 200 metres. From Mile End tube go west along Mile End Road for about 300 metres.

    Seminar links

    More Algebraic Geometry at Imperial.
    Institute for Mathematical Sciences geometry and string theory seminars.
    The London Junior Geometry seminar.

    The London Mathematical Society.
    The British topology homepage.
    The European differential geometry homepage.
    The European algebraic geometry homepage and the Warwick UK algebraic geometry node. If you are interested in algebraic geometry please subscribe to EAGER-gen and add your data to the European contacts list.

    Relevant seminars at Imperial, King's, QMW, Cambridge, Oxford and Warwick. Imperial String theory seminar.
    The COW algebraic geometry seminar, and its Calf. To subscribe to the COW and Calf mailing list, go here.