Category: seminar

TBA May 2025, 14:00 CET. Talk by David Martínez-Torres. Abstract: TBA.

25 Mar 2025, 14:00 CET. Talk by Charlotte Kirchhoff-Lukat. Abstract: Floer theory and Fukaya categories constitute powerful invariants of symplectic manifolds. As a first step in the effort to extend these techniques to Poisson structures with degeneracies, I will present the construction of the Fukaya category for log symplectic Poisson structures on oriented surfaces, with…

11 Mar 2025, 15:00 CET (note the unusual time). Talk by Maciej Dunajski. Abstract: I shall review various ways in which an affine connection on a manifold M can be lifted to a conformal structure on TM. I shall focus on the construction in which there is a preferred metric in this conformal structure which…

19 Nov 2024, 14:30 CET (note the time change). Talk by Rajan Mehta. Abstract: I’ll give an overview of graded geometry and explain how various structures that fall under the umbrella of “generalized geometry” (such as Lie algebroids, Poisson manifolds, Jacobi manifolds, Courant algebroids, and generalized complex manifolds) can be viewed as graded geometric objects.…

22 Oct 2024, 14:00 CET. Talk by Pavol Ševera. Abstract: I will talk about the original motivations and dreams that lead to these infamous letters (which are known mainly for the introduction and classification of exact Courant algebroids) and about some of the related developments in generalized geometry, higher structures and physics that happened at…

18 Jul 2024, 11:00 CET. Talk by Karandeep Singh. Abstract: L-infinity algebras were introduced by Lada and Stasheff in the 90s as strongly homotopy Lie algebras, and are a generalization of Lie algebras, where the structure equations are only required to hold up to coherent homotopy. After giving the relevant definitions, I will give some…

18 Jun 2024 (Tuesday). 14:00 CET. Talk by A. Lewis. Note the unusual day and time. Abstract: The property of geodesic invariance of a distribution on a manifold with an affine connection is that for which geodesics with initial tangent vectors in the distribution are such that all subsequent tangent vectors are in the distribution.…

8 May 2024 (Wednesday), 12:30 CET. Talk by V. Cortés. Note the unusual day and time. Abstract: I will discuss various geometric structures on Courant algebroids in terms of generalized connections, spinors and Dirac generating operators. The talk is based on joint work with Liana David.

11 Apr 2024, 11h CET. Talk by I. Agricola. Abstract: Following the seminal work of Elie Cartan, I will summarise the concept of torsion of a metric connection and the most important properties; in particular, we will meet the three basic types of metric connections with torsion and what singles out the skew symmetric case.…