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If you are interested in attending the colloquium, please send an email to the team assistance AZ for the zoom link.

The colloquium is preceded by the Junior ZMP Seminar at 1pm and the ZMP Seminar at 2.15pm.

Talks in Summer Semester 2026

  • July 16, 2026, 4.30pm, Geomatikum H5: Rémi Rhodes (Marseille)
  • July 2, 2026, 4.30pm, Notkestraße 9, Room 3114: Bin Gui (Tsinghua)
  • June 18, 2026, 4.30pm, Geomatikum H5: Anne Moreau (Paris-Saclay)
  • June 4, 2026, 4.30pm, DESY SR 2: Monica Kang (Texas A&M)
  • May 21, 2026, 4.30pm, Geomatikum H5: Lotte Hollands (Heriot-Watt University)
  • April 30, 2026, 4.30pm, DESY SR 2: Apoorv Tiwari (Southern Denmark University)
  • April 16, 2026, 4.30 pm, MIN-Forum H7: Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley & MPI Leipzig)

History of talks Summer 2021 – Winter 2025/26

History of talks Summer 2016 – Winter 2020/21

  • 18 February 2021, 4.15pm, online: Pierrick Bousseau (ETH Zürich) – The skein algebra of the 4-punctured sphere from curve counting (PDF)
  • 4 February 2021, 4.15pm, online: Fernando Marchesano (IFT Madrid) – Module spaces in quantum gravity (PDF)
  • 21 January 2021, 4.15pm, online: Douglas Stanford (Stanford University) – Wormholes and random matrices (PDF)
  • 7 January 2021, 4.15pm, online: Fabian Haiden (University of Oxford) – Motivic Donaldson-Thomas invariants of flat surfaces (PDF)
  • 10 December 2020, 4.15pm, online: Eran Palti (Ben Gurion University) – The Cosmological Constant and the Swampland (PDF)
  • 26 November 2020, 4.15pm, online: Kevin Costello (Perimeter Institute) – A mathematical formulation of holography (PDF)
  • 12 November 2020, 4.15pm, online: Tom Rudelius (IAS Princeton) – Black Holes to Algebraic Curves: Consequences of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (PDF)
  • 9 July 2020, 4.15pm, online: Double-Seminar – Topological phases of matter, matrix product states, and tensor categories
  • 11 June 2020, 4.15pm, online: Nils Carqueville (Universität Wien) – Topological Quantum Field Theory with Defects
  • 7 May 2020, 4.15pm, online: Matthias Gaberdiel (ETH) – An exact AdS/CFT duality
  • 30 January 2020, 4.15pm, DESY: Thomas Grimm (University of Utrecht, NL) – On imprints of quantum gravity and their fascinating mathematics
  • 16 January 2020, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Timo Weigand (Universität Mainz) – Quantum Gravity Constraints, Emergent Strings and Geometry
  • 19 December 2019, 4.15pm, DESY: Thomas Dumitrescu (UCLA, USA) – From Seiberg-Witten Theory to Non-Supersymmetric Gauge Dynamics
  • 5 December 2019, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Tudor Dimofte (University of California, Davis, USA) – 3d Gauge Theories and Representation Theory
  • 14 November 2019, 4.15pm, DESY: Double-Seminar – JT gravity and Mirzakhani's recursion
  • 24 October 2019, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Harold Williams (University of California, Davis, USA) – The algebraic geometry of Wilson-'t Hooft lines in 4d N=2 gauge theories
  • 4 July 2019, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Double Seminar – Integrable PDEs, Riemann-Hilbert correspondence and free fermion conformal field theory
  • 20 June 2019, 4.15pm, DESY: Sergey Derkachov (PDMI, St. Petersburg) – Separation of variables and calculation of the Feynman diagrams
  • 6 June 2019,4.15pm, Geomatikum: Tom Bridgeland (University of Sheffield) – Geometry from Donaldson-Thomas invariants
  • 16 May 2019, 4.15pm, DESY: Double-Seminar – Integrable PDEs, Riemann-Hilbert correspondence and free fermion conformal field theory
  • 2 May 2019,4.15pm, Geomatikum: Double Seminar – Integrable PDEs, Riemann-Hilbert correspondence and free fermion conformal field theory
  • 18 April 2019, 2.15pm, DESY: Nils Carqueville (University of Vienna) – Topological quantum field theory with defects
  • 4 April 2019, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Sara Pasquetti (Università di Milano-Bicocca) – Dualities and correspondences in SUSY gauge theories
  • 24 January 2019, 4.15pm, DESY: Jasper Stokman (University of Amsterdam) – Harish-Chandra series and boundary correlation functions
  • 10 January 2019, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Double Seminar – Disc (E_k) algebras in TQFT and SUSY QFT
  • 13 December 2018, 4.15pm, DESY: André Henriques (Oxford) – What Chern-Simons theory assigns to a point
  • 29 November 2018, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Double Seminar – Disc (E_k) algebras in TQFT and SUSY QFT
  • 15 November 2018, 4.15pm, DESY: Hugo Duminil-Copin (IHES) – Counting self-avoiding walks
  • 1 November 2018, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Thomas Willwacher (ETH Zürich) – Models for configuration spaces through Feynman diagrams
  • 12 July 2018, 4.15pm, DESY: Eric Sharpe (Virginia Tech, USA) – A proposal for nonabelian mirrors in two-dimensional theories
  • 28 June 2018, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Double Seminar – Flat connections and geometric quantisation
  • 31 May 2018, 4.15pm, DESY: Sergei Gukov (Caltech, USA & MPI f. Mathematik, Bonn) – What are next generation MTCs and TQFTs?
  • 3 May 2018, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Joseph Minahan (Uppsala University, Sweden) – Super Yang-Mills on d-spheres
  • 3 May 2018, 2.45pm, Geomatikum: Bin Gui (Vanderbilt University, USA) – Some unitarity problems in 2D conformal field theory
  • 19 April 2018, 2.15pm, DESY: Double Seminar – Flat connections and geometric quantisation
  • 5 April 2018, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Giovanni Felder (ETH Zürich) – Gauge theory partition functions, representation schemes and random matrices
  • 11 January 2018, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Antti Kupiainen (University of Helsinki) – Proof of the DOZZ Formula
  • 14 December 2017, 2.15pm, DESY: Double Seminar – Slightly more advanced topics in conformal field theory
  • 30 November 2017, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Damien Calaque (Université de Montpellier) – Two examples of fully extended TFTs.
  • 16 November 2017, 4.15pm, DESY: Gus Schrader (Columbia University (NY)) – Quantum total positivity and continuous tensor categories
  • 2 November 2017, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Peter Teichner (MPI Bonn) – Computing deformation classes of invertible field theories
  • 19 October 2017, 4.15pm, DESY: Double Seminar – Slightly more advanced topics in conformal field theory
  • 22 June 2017, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Laura Schaposnik (University of Illinois at Chicago) – On the geometry of the moduli space of Higgs bundles
  • 1 June 2017, 2.15pm, DESY: Double-Seminar – Hitchin Systems, Non-Abelian Hodge Theory and Wall Crossing
  • 11 May 2017, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Domenico Monaco (Universität Tübingen) – Topological and gauge-theoretic invariants in condensed matter systems
  • 27 April 2017, 4.15pm, DESY: Maxim Zabzine (Uppsala University) – Virasoro constraints and localization
  • 13 April 2017, 2.15pm, Geomatikum: Double-Seminar – Hitchin Systems, Non-Abelian Hodge Theory and Wall Crossing
  • 12 January 2017, 4.15pm, DESY: Christoph Keller (ETH Zürich) – Mathieu Moonshine and Symmetry Surfing
  • 15 December 2016, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Andy Neitzke (Universität Texas) – Abelianization in Chern-Simons theory
  • 17 November 2016, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Artan Sheshmani (MIT und Universität Aarhus) – Nested Hilbert schemes, local Donaldson-Thomas theory
  • 14 July 2016, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Jürg Fröhlich (ETH Zürich, CH) – Randomness in Quantum Mechanics - the ETH approach
  • 23 June 2016, 4.15pm, DESY: David Jordan (University of Edinburgh, UK) – Integrating quantum groups over surfaces
  • 2 June 2016, 4.15pm, DESY: Manfred Salmhofer (Univ. Heidelberg) – Functional Renormalization
  • 21 April 2016, 4.15pm, DESY: Daniele Dorigoni (Durham University, UK) – Resurgence and Trans-Series in Quantum Field Theory

History of talks Summer 2011 – Winter 2015/16

  • 28 January 2016, 4.15pm, DESY: Marco Benini (Univ. Potsdam) – Homotopical computations for Abelian gauge theory Slides
  • 14 January 2016, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Stefan Theisen (MPI Golm) – Anomalies and Conformal Manifolds
  • 17 December 2015, 4.15pm, DESY: Don Zagier (MPI Bonn) – A link between two algebraic structures
  • 3 December 2015, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Hermann Schulz-Baldes (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) – Topological insulators: from K-theory to physics
  • 19 November 2015, 4.15pm, DESY: Gaetan Borot (MPI Bonn) – The topological content of 2d rational CFTs
  • 29 October 2015, 4.15pm, DESY: Kenji Iohara (Univ. Lyon) – Super Virasoro Algebras and their Variants
  • 11 June 2015, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Jan Manschot (Trinity College Dublin) – BPS Bound States and Quivers
  • 30 April 2015, 4.15pm, DESY: Niklas Beisert (ETH Zürich) – Smooth Wilson Loops in N=4 Superspace and Yangian Symmetry
  • 16 April 2015, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Gleb Arutyunov (Universität Hamburg) – R-matrix Quantization of the Ruijsenaars-Schneider Models
  • 29 January 2015, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Stefan Hollands (Universität Leipzig) – Black holes and thermodynamics
  • 20 November 2014, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Matthias Christiandl (University of Copenhagen) – From Pauli’s Principle to Fermionic Entanglement
  • 23 October 2014, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Miranda Cheng (University of Amsterdam) – Moonshine and String Theory
  • 10 July 2014, 4.15pm, DESY: Ivan Smith (University of Cambridge, UK) – Quadratic differentials, stability conditions and symplectic topology
  • 15 May 2014, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Vladimir Fateev (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) – Alday-Gaiotto-Tachikawa conjecture and integrability
  • 24 April 2014, 4.15pm, DESY: Konrad Waldorf (Universität Greifswald) – String geometry and spin geometry on loop spaces
  • 10 April 2014, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: François Labourie (Orsay, France) – The algebra of pairs swapping
  • 30 January 2014, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Bertrand Eynard (CEA, Salclay, France) – Topological recursion and moduli spaces, Laplace transform and Mirror symmetry
  • 16 January 2014, 4.15pm, DESY: Oleg Lisovyy (Université deTours, France) – Painlevé funcitons and conformal blocks
  • 19 December 2013, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Mina Aganagic (University of California, Berkeley, USA) – A Refinement of Chern-Simons Theory and Knot Homology
  • 28 November 2013, 4.15pm, DESY: Arthur Bartels (Universität Münster) – Conformal Nets as higher von Neumann Algebras
  • 14 November 2013, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Elmar Schrohe (Leibniz Universität Hannover) – A Families Index Theorem for Boundary Value Problems
  • 11 July 2013, 4.15pm, DESY: Mark Gross (UC San Diego, USA) – Mirror symmetry and cluster algebras
  • 13 June 2013, 4.15pm, DESY: Philippe Di Francesco (Gif-sur-Yvette, France) – Cluster Algebras: from Combinatorics to Statistical Physics
  • 2 May 2013, 4.15pm, DESY: Dorothea Bahns / Christian Bär (Univ. Göttingen / Univ. Potsdam) – Microlocal analysis in Quantum Field Theory / Path integrals on curved spaces
  • 31 January 2013, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Eric Vasserot (IMJ, Paris) – AGT conjecture and Hall algebras
  • 17 January 2013, 4.15pm, DESY: Matthias Staudacher (HU Berlin) – A Spectral Parameter for Scattering Amplitudes
  • 13 December 2012, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Piotr Sulkowski (Caltech/University of Amsterdam) – On knots, super-A-polynomial, and 3d gauge theories
  • 29 November 2012, 4.15pm, DESY: Lionel Mason (St Peter's College Oxford) – Holomorphic linking in twistor space and the amplitude/Wilson-loop duality
  • 15 November 2012, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Christian Blohmann (MPI Bonn) – Hamiltonian Lie Algebroids and General Relativity
  • 1 November 2012, 4.15pm, DESY: Sander Zwegers (Universität Köln) – An introduction to Nahm's conjecture
  • 18 October 2012, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Daniel Waldram (Imperial College London) – Generalised geometry and supergravity
  • 21 June 2012, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Marcos Marino (Universität Genf) – Three-dimensional superconformal field theories as Fermi gases
  • 7 June 2012, 4.15pm, DESY: John Cardy (University of Oxford) – Discrete Holomorphicity, Integrability and Parafermions in Two Dimensions
  • 10 May 2012, 4.15pm, DESY: Martin Zirnbauer (Universität Köln) – Of symmetries, symmetry classes, and symmetric spaces: from disorder and quantum chaos to topological insulators
  • 26 April 2012, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Hans Jockers (Universität Bonn) – Conifold Transitions in M-theory on Calabi-Yau fourfolds
  • 12 April 2012, 4.15pm, DESY: Sergei Gukov (Caltech / MPI Bonn) – Quantization in Modern Mathematical Physics
  • 26 January 2012, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Atish Dabholkar (LPTHE Paris) – Quantum Entropy of Black Holes, Holography, and Number Theory
  • 12 January 2012, 4.15pm, DESY: Tamás Hausel (Oxford) – Symmetries of SL(n) Hitchin fibers
  • 15 December 2011, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Rinat Kashaev (University of Geneva) – Quantum Chern-Simons theory with gauge group SL(2,C)
  • 1 December 2011, 2.15pm, Geomatikum: Richard Szabo (Edinburgh) – String Theory and Higher Quantum Geometry
  • 17 November 2011, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Olaf Lechtenfeld (Hannover) – Instantons and Chern-Simons flows in d = 6, 7 and 8
  • 3 November 2011, 4.15pm, DESY: Alexander Bobenko (TU-Berlin) – Discrete Riemann Surfaces
  • 20 October 2011, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Helge Glöckner (Universität Paderborn) – Continuity and differentiability properties of typical non-linear mappings between spaces of test functions
  • 30 June 2011, 4.15pm, DESY: T. Bridgeland (University of Oxford, UK) – Stability conditions and quadratic differentials
  • 23 June 2011, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: F. Malikov (University of Southern California) – Localization of affine W-algebras
  • 26 May 2011, 2.00pm, MINERALOGIE (Grindelallee 48): within the workshop “Higher Structures in Topology and Geometry V”
  • 12 May 2011, 4.15pm, DESY: Hubert Saleur (CEA Saclay, Frankreich) – Edge states and sigma models
  • 28 April 2011, 4.15pm, DESY: Boris Springborn (TU Berlin) – Discrete conformal maps and ideal hyperbolic polyhedra
  • 14 April 2011, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Don Zagier (MPIM Bonn/Collège de France, Paris) – Mock modular forms: a new tool in mathematics and physics

History of talks Summer 2006 – Winter 2010/11

  • 27 January 2011, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Andreas Ludwig (UC Santa Barbara) – Classification of topological insulators and superconductors
  • 13 January 2011, 4.15pm, DESY: Fabian Essler (University of Oxford, UK) – Finite Temperature and Quantum Quench Dynamics in Massive Integrable Quantum Field Theories
  • 16 December 2010, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Karl-Hermann Neeb (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) – Semiboundedness in the representation theory of infinite dimensional Lie groups
  • 18 November 2010, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Markus Reineke (Universität Wuppertal) – (Quantum) Donaldson-Thomas type invariants and quivers
  • 4 November 2010, 4.15pm, DESY: Roberto Longo (University of Rome, Italy) – Operator Algebras, an Analog of the Beurling-Lax Theorem and Boundary QFT
  • 21 October 2010, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Jacopo Stoppa (Trinity College, Cambridge) – D0-D6 states, Gromov-Witten invariants and universal covering quivers
  • 1 July 2010, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Peter Mayr (LMU München) – (Quantum) Deformation of N=1 mirror symmetry
  • 3 June 2010, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Bernhard Krötz (Leibniz Universität Hannover) – Kanonische Komplexifizierungen
  • 6 May 2010, 4.15pm, DESY: Joachim Cuntz (Universität Münster) – Cantor systems and ring C*-algebras
  • 22 April 2010, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Nils Carqueville (LMU München) – Quiver gauge theories from open topological string theory
  • 8 April 2010, 4.15pm, DESY: Martijn Wijnholt (Harvard University) – Unification in M- and F-Theory
  • 12 March 2010, 3.30pm, DESY: F. Smirnov (Paris) – One point functions in the Sine-Gordon model
  • 12 March 2010, 2.00pm, DESY: M. Jimbo (Tokyo) – Hidden Grassmann structure of integrable models II. CFT limit
  • 12 March 2010, 11.00am, DESY: T. Miwa (Kyoto) – Hidden Grassmann structure of integrable models I. XXZ model
  • CANCELLED: 4 February 2010, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Dirk Kreimer (Boston) – Progress with renormalizable field theories
  • 28 January 2010, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Boris Pioline (Paris) – Progress on hypermultiplet moduli spaces
  • 14 January 2010, 4.15pm, DESY: Krzysztof Gawedzki (Lyon) – Gerbes and field theory
  • 3 December 2009, 4.15pm, DESY: Catharina Stroppel (Bonn) – A combinatorial construction of the fusion algebra and quantum cohomology
  • 19 November 2009, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Eric Opdam (Amsterdam) – Harmonic analysis and syntheses of Hecke algebras
  • 5 November 2009, 4.15pm, DESY: David Hernandez (CNRS - Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau) – Langlands duality for quantum groups and categorification
  • 22 October 2009, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Thierry Barbot (Avignon) – Spacetimes of constant curvature
  • 16 July 2009, 4.15pm, DESY: A. Klemm (Bonn) – Integrability in N=2 Gauge Theory with Matter
  • 2 July 2009, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: A. Neitzke (Harvard) – BPS Wall-Crossing and Hyperkahler Geometry
  • 18 June 2009, 4.15pm, DESY: Hendryk Pfeiffer (UBC) – Reconstructing algebras from monoidal categories
  • 28 May 2009, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: A. Tomasiello (Harvard) – Exploring the geometry of supergravity
  • 28 May 2009, 2.15pm, Geomatikum: S. Shatashvili (Trinity College Dublin) – Superpotentials and Yang's functions
  • 14 May 2009, 4.15pm, DESY: V. Fock (Strasbourg) – Higher Teichm
  • 30 April 2009, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: C. Voisin (IHES) – Hodge theory and cohomology algebras of Kaehler and complex projective manifolds
  • 16 April 2009, 4.15pm, DESY: B. Siebert (Hamburg) – A toolkit for Calabi-Yau and related geometries
  • 5 February 2009, 4.15pm, DESY: D. Ben-Zvi (Texas) – Topological Field Theory and Representation Theory
  • 22 January 2009, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: W. Mueller (Bonn) – Spectral theory on locally symmetric spaces and automorphic forms
  • 8 January 2009, 4.15pm, DESY: Kluemper Methods and scope of investigations of integrable quantum systems at finite temperature
  • 18 December 2008, 4.15pm, DESYl: A. Frabetti (Lyon) – Hopf algebras and Phi^3 renormalization factors
  • 4 December 2008, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: W. Soergel (Freiburg) – Lokalisierung von Darstellungen
  • 20 November 2008, 4.15pm, DESY: Johannes Walcher (CERN) – The Real Topological String
  • 6 November 2008, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: W. van Suijlekom (Nijmegen) – Renormalization Hopf algebras and BRST-symmetries
  • 23 October 2008, 4.15pm, DESY: Frank Reidegeld (Hamburg) – Spin(7)-manifolds of cohomogeneity one
  • 3 July 2008, 4.15pm, Geomatikum2: Martin Guest (Tokyo) – From Quantum Cohomology to Integrable Systems
  • 5 June 2008, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Jochen Brüning (Berlin) – Index theorems for singular Dirac operators
  • 22 May 2008, 4.15pm, DESY: Bertrand Eynard (Gif-sur-Yvette) – Symplectic invariants of spectral curves and their applications to enumerative geometry
  • 8 May 2008, 4.15pm, Geomatikum2: Urs Schreiber (Hamburg) – Lie n-algebroids and the BRST complex
  • 17 April 2008, 4.15pm, DESY: Anton Alekseev – The Kashiwara-Vergne conjecture and Drinfeld's associators
  • 17 January 2008, 4.15pm, DESY: Katrin Wendland (Augsburg) – Geometry and beyond for K3 and one of its higher dimensional cousins
  • 20 December 2007, 4.15pm, Geomatikum Martin Zirnbauer (Köln) – Riemannian symmetric superspaces and how they arise in random matrix theory
  • 22 November 2007, 4.15pm, Geomatikum2: Andrew Swann (Odense) – Twists, torsion and T-duality
  • 8 November 2007, 4.15pm, DESY: Matthias Schwarz (Leipzig) – String Topology and Floer Homology
  • 25 October 2007, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Daniel Stevenson (Hamburg) – The WZW action and its relation to gerbes with connection on Lie groups
  • 28 June 2007, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Walter Freyn (Augsburg) – Kac-Moody symmetric spaces
  • 24 May 2007, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Gerd Laures (Bochum) – Elliptic Cohomology: Old and New
  • 10 May 2007, 4.15pm, DESY: Alexei Semikhatov – Models of logarithmic CFT: how far can we go with representation theory?
  • 12 April 2007, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Lorenz Schwachhöfer (Dortmund) – Manifolds with large isometry group and lower curvature bounds
  • 1 February 2007, 4.15pm, Geomatikum,: Gerhard Huisken (MPI Golm) – Unifomisation theorems via the heat equation
  • 1 February 2007, 2.15pm, Geomatikum: Frank Klinker (Dortmund) – A geometric SUSY-representation on deformed supermanifolds
  • 18 January 2007, 4.15pm, DESY: Jean-Marc Schlenker (Toulouse) – From earthquakes to black holes
  • 7 December 2006, 4.15pm, DESY: Vladimir Fock – Cluster description of Poisson-Lie groups
  • 16 November 2006, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Christian Bär (University of Potsdam) – Path integrals on manifolds via finite dimensional approximation
  • 9 November 2006, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Simon Willerton (Sheffield) – Topological quantum field theory and gerbes
  • 13 July 2006, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Thomas Mohaupt (Liverpool) – Black hole partition functions, strings and duality
  • 29 June 2006, 4.15pm, DESY: Alexei Bondal (Steklov Institute, Moskow) – Integrable systems related to bilinear forms
  • 15 June 2006, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Jean-Baptiste Butruille (Ecole Polytechnique) – Nearly Kähler manifolds and 3-symmetric spaces
  • 1 June 2006, 4.15pm, DESY: Mathai Varghese (Adelaide) – T-duality via noncommutative geometry
  • 4 May 2006, 4.15pm, DESY: Frederik Witt (Ecole Polytechnique) – Generalised G-structures, variational principles and type II supergravity
  • 20 April 2006, 4.15pm, Geomatikum: Daniel Huybrechts (Bonn) – Stability and derived categories