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Talks in Summer Semester 2025

Next talks

  • May 8, 4:15, DESY, Charles Young (Hertfordshire)
  • May 22, 2:15, Geomatikum H4, David Jordan (Edinburgh)
  • June 19, 4:15, DESY Markus Dierigl (LMU Munich)
  • Julry 17, 4:15 DESY, Amir-Kian Kashani-Poor (ENS Paris)

History of talks

  • Apr 24, 4:15pm, GEOMATIKUM, lecture hall 4: Arun Debray (Kentucky)

History of talks Summer 2021 – Winter 2024/2025

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, 2:15pm, 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, building 2a, seminar room 2: Thomas Grimm (University of Utrecht, NL) – On imprints of quantum gravity and their fascinating mathematics
  • 16 January 2020, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 6: Timo Weigand (Universität Mainz) – Quantum Gravity Constraints, Emergent Strings and Geometry
  • 19 December 2019, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Thomas Dumitrescu (UCLA, USA) – From Seiberg-Witten Theory to Non-Supersymmetric Gauge Dynamics
  • 5 December 2019, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 6: Tudor Dimofte (University of California, Davis, USA) – 3d Gauge Theories and Representation Theory
  • 14 November 2019, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Double-Seminar – JT gravity and Mirzakhani's recursion
  • 24 October 2019, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 6: 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. lecture hall H2: Double Seminar – Integrable PDEs, Riemann-Hilbert correspondence and free fermion conformal field theory
  • 20 June 2019, 2:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Sergey Derkachov (PDMI, St. Petersburg) – Separation of variables and calculation of the Feynman diagrams
  • 6 June 2019, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H2: Tom Bridgeland (University of Sheffield) – Geometry from Donaldson-Thomas invariants
  • 16 May 2019, 2:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Double-Seminar – Integrable PDEs, Riemann-Hilbert correspondence and free fermion conformal field theory
  • 2 May 2019, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H2: Double Seminar – Integrable PDEs, Riemann-Hilbert correspondence and free fermion conformal field theory
  • 18 April 2019, 2:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Nils Carqueville (University of Vienna) – Topological quantum field theory with defects
  • 4 April 2019, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H2: Sara Pasquetti (Università di Milano-Bicocca) – Dualities and correspondences in SUSY gauge theories
  • 24 January 2019, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Jasper Stokman (University of Amsterdam) – Harish-Chandra series and boundary correlation functions
  • 10 January 2019, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 6: Double Seminar – Disc (E_k) algebras in TQFT and SUSY QFT
  • 13 December 2018, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: André Henriques (Oxford) – What Chern-Simons theory assigns to a point
  • 29 November 2018, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 6: Double Seminar – Disc (E_k) algebras in TQFT and SUSY QFT
  • 15 November 2018, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Hugo Duminil-Copin (IHES) – Counting self-avoiding walks
  • 1 November 2018, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 6: Thomas Willwacher (ETH Zürich) – Models for configuration spaces through Feynman diagrams
  • 12 July 2018, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Eric Sharpe (Virginia Tech, USA) – A proposal for nonabelian mirrors in two-dimensional theories
  • 28 June 2018, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Double Seminar – Flat connections and geometric quantisation
  • 31 May 2018, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Sergei Gukov (Caltech, USA & MPI f. Mathematik, Bonn) – What are next generation MTCs and TQFTs?
  • 3 May 2018, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Joseph Minahan (Uppsala University, Sweden) – Super Yang-Mills on d-spheres
  • 3 May 2018, 2:45pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Bin Gui (Vanderbilt University, USA) – Some unitarity problems in 2D conformal field theory
  • 19 April 2018, 2:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Double Seminar – Flat connections and geometric quantisation
  • 5 April 2018, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Giovanni Felder (ETH Zürich) – Gauge theory partition functions, representation schemes and random matrices
  • 11 January 2018, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 6: Antti Kupiainen (University of Helsinki) – Proof of the DOZZ Formula
  • 14 December 2017, 2:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Double Seminar – Slightly more advanced topics in conformal field theory
  • 30 November 2017, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 6: Damien Calaque (Université de Montpellier) – Two examples of fully extended TFTs
  • 16 November 2017, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Gus Schrader (Columbia University (NY)) – Quantum total positivity and continuous tensor categories
  • 2 November 2017, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 6: Peter Teichner (MPI Bonn) – Computing deformation classes of invertible field theories
  • 19 October 2017, 2:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Double Seminar – Slightly more advanced topics in conformal field theory
  • 22 June 2017, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Laura Schaposnik (University of Illinois at Chicago) – On the geometry of the moduli space of Higgs bundles
  • 1 June 2017, 2:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Double-Seminar – Hitchin Systems, Non-Abelian Hodge Theory and Wall Crossing
  • 11 May 2017, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Domenico Monaco (Universität Tübingen) – Topological and gauge-theoretic invariants in condensed matter systems
  • 27 April 2017, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Maxim Zabzine (Uppsala University) – Virasoro constraints and localization
  • 13 April 2017, 2:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Double-Seminar – Hitchin Systems, Non-Abelian Hodge Theory and Wall Crossing
  • 12 January 2017, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Christoph Keller (ETH Zürich) – Mathieu Moonshine and Symmetry Surfing
  • 15 December 2016, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 6: Andy Neitzke (Universität Texas) – Abelianization in Chern-Simons theory
  • 17 November 2016, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Artan Sheshmani (MIT und Universität Aarhus) – Nested Hilbert schemes, local Donaldson-Thomas theory
  • 14 July 2016, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Jürg Fröhlich (ETH Zürich, CH) – Randomness in Quantum Mechanics - the ETH approach
  • 23 June 2016, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: David Jordan (University of Edinburgh, UK) – Integrating quantum groups over surfaces
  • 2 June 2016, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Manfred Salmhofer (Univ. Heidelberg) – Functional Renormalization
  • 21 April 2016, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: 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, building 61, Hörsaal: Marco Benini (Univ. Potsdam) – Homotopical computations for Abelian gauge theory Slides
  • 14 January 2016, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Stefan Theisen (MPI Golm) – Anomalies and Conformal Manifolds
  • 17 December 2015, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Don Zagier (MPI Bonn) – A link between two algebraic structures
  • 3 December 2015, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Hermann Schulz-Baldes (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) – Topological insulators: from K-theory to physics
  • 19 November 2015, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Gaetan Borot (MPI Bonn) – The topological content of 2d rational CFTs
  • 29 October 2015, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Kenji Iohara (Univ. Lyon) – Super Virasoro Algebras and their Variants
  • 11 June 2015, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Jan Manschot (Trinity College Dublin) – BPS Bound States and Quivers
  • 30 April 2015, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Niklas Beisert (ETH Zürich) – Smooth Wilson Loops in N=4 Superspace and Yangian Symmetry
  • 16 April 2015, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Gleb Arutyunov (Universität Hamburg) – R-matrix Quantization of the Ruijsenaars-Schneider Models
  • 29 January 2015, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Stefan Hollands (Universität Leipzig) – Black holes and thermodynamics
  • 20 November 2014, 6:00pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Matthias Christiandl (University of Copenhagen) – From Pauli’s Principle to Fermionic Entanglement
  • 23 October 2014, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Miranda Cheng (University of Amsterdam) – Moonshine and String Theory
  • 10 July 2014, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Ivan Smith (University of Cambridge, UK) – Quadratic differentials, stability conditions and symplectic topology
  • 15 May 2014, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Vladimir Fateev (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) – Alday-Gaiotto-Tachikawa conjecture and integrability
  • 24 April 2014, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2, seminar room 2: Konrad Waldorf (Universität Greifswald) – String geometry and spin geometry on loop spaces
  • 10 April 2014, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: François Labourie (Orsay, France) – The algebra of pairs swapping
  • 30 January 2014, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Bertrand Eynard (CEA, Salclay, France) – Topological recursion and moduli spaces, Laplace transform and Mirror symmetry
  • 16 January 2014, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Oleg Lisovyy (Université deTours, France) – Painlevé funcitons and conformal blocks
  • 19 December 2013, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Mina Aganagic (University of California, Berkeley, USA) – A Refinement of Chern-Simons Theory and Knot Homology
  • 28 November 2013, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Arthur Bartels (Universität Münster) – Conformal Nets as higher von Neumann Algebras
  • 14 November 2013, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Elmar Schrohe (Leibniz Universität Hannover) – A Families Index Theorem for Boundary Value Problems
  • 11 July 2013, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Mark Gross (UC San Diego, USA) – Mirror symmetry and cluster algebras
  • 13 June 2013, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Philippe Di Francesco (Gif-sur-Yvette, France) – Cluster Algebras: from Combinatorics to Statistical Physics
  • 2 May 2013, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: 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, lecture hall 2: Eric Vasserot (IMJ, Paris) – AGT conjecture and Hall algebras
  • 17 January 2013, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Matthias Staudacher (HU Berlin) – A Spectral Parameter for Scattering Amplitudes
  • 13 December 2012, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Piotr Sulkowski (Caltech/University of Amsterdam) – On knots, super-A-polynomial, and 3d gauge theories
  • 29 November 2012, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Lionel Mason (St Peter's College Oxford) – Holomorphic linking in twistor space and the amplitude/Wilson-loop duality
  • 15 November 2012, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Christian Blohmann (MPI Bonn) – Hamiltonian Lie Algebroids and General Relativity
  • 1 November 2012, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Sander Zwegers (Universität Köln) – An introduction to Nahm's conjecture
  • 18 October 2012, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Daniel Waldram (Imperial College London) – Generalised geometry and supergravity
  • 21 June 2012, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Marcos Marino (Universität Genf) – Three-dimensional superconformal field theories as Fermi gases
  • 7 June 2012, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: John Cardy (University of Oxford) – Discrete Holomorphicity, Integrability and Parafermions in Two Dimensions
  • 10 May 2012, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: 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, lecture hall 2: Hans Jockers (Universität Bonn) – Conifold Transitions in M-theory on Calabi-Yau fourfolds
  • 12 April 2012, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Sergei Gukov (Caltech / MPI Bonn) – Quantization in Modern Mathematical Physics
  • 26 January 2012, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Atish Dabholkar (LPTHE Paris) – Quantum Entropy of Black Holes, Holography, and Number Theory
  • 12 January 2012, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Tamás Hausel (Oxford) – Symmetries of SL(n) Hitchin fibers
  • 15 December 2011, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Rinat Kashaev (University of Geneva) – Quantum Chern-Simons theory with gauge group SL(2,C)
  • 1 December 2011, 2:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Richard Szabo (Edinburgh) – String Theory and Higher Quantum Geometry
  • 17 November 2011, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Olaf Lechtenfeld (Hannover) – Instantons and Chern-Simons flows in d = 6, 7 and 8
  • 3 November 2011, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Alexander Bobenko (TU-Berlin) – Discrete Riemann Surfaces
  • 20 October 2011, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Helge Glöckner (Universität Paderborn) – Continuity and differentiability properties of typical non-linear mappings between spaces of test functions
  • 30 June 2011, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: T. Bridgeland (University of Oxford, UK) – Stability conditions and quadratic differentials
  • 23 June 2011, 4:15pm, Geomatikum lecture hall 2: 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, building 61, lecture hall: Hubert Saleur (CEA Saclay, Frankreich) – Edge states and sigma models
  • 28 April 2011, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Boris Springborn (TU Berlin) – Discrete conformal maps and ideal hyperbolic polyhedra
  • 14 April 2011, 4:15pm, Geomatikum lecture hall 2: 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 lecture hall 2: Andreas Ludwig (UC Santa Barbara) – Classification of topological insulators and superconductors
  • 13 January 2011, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Fabian Essler (University of Oxford, UK) – Finite Temperature and Quantum Quench Dynamics in Massive Integrable Quantum Field Theories
  • 16 December 2010, 4:15pm, Geomatikum lecture hall 2: Karl-Hermann Neeb (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) – Semiboundedness in the representation theory of infinite dimensional Lie groups
  • 18 November 2010, 4:15pm, Geomatikum lecture hall 2: Markus Reineke (Universität Wuppertal) – (Quantum) Donaldson-Thomas type invariants and quivers
  • 4 November 2010, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Roberto Longo (University of Rome, Italy) – Operator Algebras, an Analog of the Beurling-Lax Theorem and Boundary QFT
  • 21 October 2010, 4:15pm, Geomatikum lecture hall 2: Jacopo Stoppa (Trinity College, Cambridge) – D0-D6 states, Gromov-Witten invariants and universal covering quivers
  • 1 July 2010, 4:15pm, Geomatikum lecture hall 2: Peter Mayr (LMU München) – (Quantum) Deformation of N=1 mirror symmetry
  • 3 June 2010, 4:15pm, Geomatikum lecture hall 2: Bernhard Krötz (Leibniz Universität Hannover) – Kanonische Komplexifizierungen
  • 6 May 2010, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Joachim Cuntz (Universität Münster) – Cantor systems and ring C*-algebras
  • 22 April 2010, 4:15pm, Geomatikum lecture hall 2: Nils Carqueville (LMU München) – Quiver gauge theories from open topological string theory
  • 8 April 2010, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Martijn Wijnholt (Harvard University) – Unification in M- and F-Theory
  • 12 March 2010, 3:30pm, DESY, building 1, seminar room 4a: F. Smirnov (Paris) – One point functions in the Sine-Gordon model
  • 12 March 2010, 2:00pm, DESY, building 1, seminar room 4a: M. Jimbo (Tokyo) – Hidden Grassmann structure of integrable models II. CFT limit
  • 12 March 2010, 11:00am, DESY, building 1, seminar room 4a: T. Miwa (Kyoto) – Hidden Grassmann structure of integrable models I. XXZ model
  • CANCELLED: 4 February 2010, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H2: Dirk Kreimer (Boston) – Progress with renormalizable field theories
  • 28 January 2010, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall 2: Boris Pioline (Paris) – Progress on hypermultiplet moduli spaces
  • 14 January 2010, 4:15pm, DESY, building 2a, seminar room 2: Krzysztof Gawedzki (Lyon) – Gerbes and field theory
  • 3 December 2009, 4:15pm, DESY, building 61, lecture hall: Catharina Stroppel (Bonn) – A combinatorial construction of the fusion algebra and quantum cohomology
  • 19 November 2009, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H2: Eric Opdam (Amsterdam) – Harmonic analysis and syntheses of Hecke algebras
  • 5 November 2009, 4:15pm, DESY, building 61, lecture hall: David Hernandez (CNRS - Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau) – Langlands duality for quantum groups and categorification
  • 22 October 2009, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H2: Thierry Barbot (Avignon) – Spacetimes of constant curvature
  • 16 July 2009, 4:15pm, DESY, seminar room 2: A. Klemm (Bonn) – Integrability in N=2 Gauge Theory with Matter
  • 2 July 2009, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture thaetre H2: A. Neitzke (Harvard) – BPS Wall-Crossing and Hyperkahler Geometry
  • 18 June 2009, 4:15pm, DESY, seminar room 2: Hendryk Pfeiffer (UBC) – Reconstructing algebras from monoidal categories
  • 28 May 2009, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H2: A. Tomasiello (Harvard) – Exploring the geometry of supergravity
  • 28 May 2009, 2:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H2: S. Shatashvili (Trinity College Dublin) – Superpotentials and Yang's functions
  • 14 May 2009, 4:15pm, DESY, seminar room 2: V. Fock (Strasbourg) – Higher Teichm
  • 30 April 2009, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H2: C. Voisin (IHES) – Hodge theory and cohomology algebras of Kaehler and complex projective manifolds
  • 16 April 2009, 4:15pm, DESY, seminar room 2: B. Siebert (Hamburg) – A toolkit for Calabi-Yau and related geometries
  • 5 February 2009, 4:15pm, DESY, building 61, lecture hall: D. Ben-Zvi (Texas) – Topological Field Theory and Representation Theory
  • 22 January 2009, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H2: W. Mueller (Bonn) – Spectral theory on locally symmetric spaces and automorphic forms
  • 8 January 2009, 4:15pm, DESY, building 61, lecture hall: Kluemper Methods and scope of investigations of integrable quantum systems at finite temperature
  • 18 December 2008, 4:15pm, DESY, building 61, lecture hall: A. Frabetti (Lyon) – Hopf algebras and Phi^3 renormalization factors
  • 4 December 2008, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H2: W. Soergel (Freiburg) – Lokalisierung von Darstellungen
  • 20 November 2008, 4:15pm, DESY, seminar room 2: Johannes Walcher (CERN) – The Real Topological String
  • 6 November 2008, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H2: W. van Suijlekom (Nijmegen) – Renormalization Hopf algebras and BRST-symmetries
  • 23 October 2008, 4:15pm, DESY, building 61, lecture hall: Frank Reidegeld (Hamburg) – Spin(7)-manifolds of cohomogeneity one
  • 3 July 2008, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H2: Martin Guest (Tokyo) – From Quantum Cohomology to Integrable Systems
  • 5 June 2008, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H2: Jochen Brüning (Berlin) – Index theorems for singular Dirac operators
  • 22 May 2008, 4:15pm, DESY, seminar room 2: Bertrand Eynard (Gif-sur-Yvette) – Symplectic invariants of spectral curves and their applications to enumerative geometry
  • 8 May 2008, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H2: Urs Schreiber (Hamburg) – Lie n-algebroids and the BRST complex
  • 17 April 2008, 4:15pm, DESY, seminar room 2: Anton Alekseev – The Kashiwara-Vergne conjecture and Drinfeld's associators
  • 17 January 2008, 4:15pm, DESY, seminar room 2: Katrin Wendland (Augsburg) – Geometry and beyond for K3 and one of its higher dimensional cousins
  • 20 December 2007, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H2: Martin Zirnbauer (Köln) – Riemannian symmetric superspaces and how they arise in random matrix theory
  • 22 November 2007, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H2: Andrew Swann (Odense) – Twists, torsion and T-duality
  • 8 November 2007, 4:15pm, DESY, seminar room 2: Matthias Schwarz (Leipzig) – String Topology and Floer Homology
  • 25 October 2007, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H2: Daniel Stevenson (Hamburg) – The WZW action and its relation to gerbes with connection on Lie groups
  • 28 June 2007, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H2: Walter Freyn (Augsburg) – Kac-Moody symmetric spaces
  • 24 May 2007, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H2: Gerd Laures (Bochum) – Elliptic Cohomology: Old and New
  • 10 May 2007, 4:15pm, DESY, seminar room 2: Alexei Semikhatov – Models of logarithmic CFT: how far can we go with representation theory?
  • 12 April 2007, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H2: Lorenz Schwachhöfer (Dortmund) – Manifolds with large isometry group and lower curvature bounds
  • 1 February 2007, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H2: Gerhard Huisken (MPI Golm) – Unifomisation theorems via the heat equation
  • 1 February 2007, 2:15pm, Geomatikum; lecture hall H2: Frank Klinker (Dortmund) – A geometric SUSY-representation on deformed supermanifolds
  • 18 January 2007, 4:15pm, DESY, seminar room 2: Jean-Marc Schlenker (Toulouse) – From earthquakes to black holes
  • 7 December 2006, 4:15pm, DESY, seminar room 2: Vladimir Fock – Cluster description of Poisson-Lie groups
  • 16 November 2006, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H2: Christian Bär (University of Potsdam) – Path integrals on manifolds via finite dimensional approximation
  • 9 November 2006, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, room 241: Simon Willerton (Sheffield) – Topological quantum field theory and gerbes
  • 13 July 2006, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H3: Thomas Mohaupt (Liverpool) – Black hole partition functions, strings and duality
  • 29 June 2006, 4:15pm, DESY, seminar room 2: Alexei Bondal (Steklov Institute, Moskow) – Integrable systems related to bilinear forms
  • 15 June 2006, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, lecture hall H3: Jean-Baptiste Butruille (Ecole Polytechnique) – Nearly Kähler manifolds and 3-symmetric spaces
  • 1 June 2006, 4:15pm, DESY, seminar room 2: Mathai Varghese (Adelaide) – T-duality via noncommutative geometry
  • 4 May 2006, 4:15pm, DESY, seminar room 2: Frederik Witt (Ecole Polytechnique) – Generalised G-structures, variational principles and type II supergravity
  • 20 April 2006, 4:15pm, Geomatikum, room 241: Daniel Huybrechts (Bonn) – Stability and derived categories

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