Geometry & Topology Seminar 2017
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any other information, please contact
Haotian Wu
or
Stephan Tillmann.
Semester 2, 2017
Talks in Semester 2 will be on Thursday during 12:00–13:00 in Carslaw 535A unless noted otherwise. The titles below should be linked to the abstracts.
| Wednesday 2 August, 12:00–13:00 |
| Udo Hertrich-Jeromin (Vienna University of Technology) |
| Transformations |
| Thursday, 10 August |
| Artem Pulemotov (Queensland) |
| The Ricci iteration on homogeneous spaces |
| Thursday, 17 August |
| Krishnendu Gongopadhyay (IISER Mohali) |
| Quaternionic Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates |
| Thursday, 24 August |
| Wolfgang Globke (Adelaide) |
| Compact pseudo-Riemannian homogeneous spaces |
| Thursday, 5 October, in Carslaw 373 |
| Daniel Mathews (Monash) |
| Plane graphs, special alternating links, and contact geometry |
| Thursday, 12 October |
| Qirui Li (ANU) |
| Minkowski type problems in convex geometry |
| Thursday, 19 October |
| Yong Wei (ANU) |
| Laplacian flow for closed G_2 structures |
| Thursday, 26 October |
| Changwei Xiong (ANU) |
| Homotopy type of manifolds with partially positive curvature |
| Thursday, 16 November, in Carslaw 275 |
| Ofer Shwartz (Weizmann Institute of Science) |
| Thermodynamic formalism for countable Markov shifts |
| Monday 11 December, 11:00–12:00, in Carslaw 275 |
| Jonathan Zhu (Harvard University) |
| Entropy and self-shrinkers of the mean curvature flow |
| Monday 11 December, 14:30–15:30, in Carslaw 273 |
| Jim Isenberg (University of Oregon) |
| Joint Colloquium: Strong consmic censorship |
Semester 1, 2017
Talks in Semester 1 will be on Thursday during 12:00–13:00 in Carslaw 535A unless noted otherwise. The titles below should be linked to the abstracts.
Summer break 2017
