The LSGNT lunch seminar is held every Tuesday from 12:00-14:00 in the room MB1.2, Macadam building, KCL. It is a great opportunity for the first year students to meet potential supervisors and get a taste of some research level maths.
01/10/2024 | Ed Segal:
"Derived categories in geometry, algebra and physics" Kevin Buzzard: "Formalizing Fermat" |
08/10/2024 | Peter Jossen:
"From Lindemann-Weierstrass to Siegel-Shidlovskii" Yiannis Petridis: "Counting in hyperbolic space: number theory and geometry" |
15/10/2024 | Owen Patashnick:
"On constructing motivic Galois groups" Selim Ghazouani: "A tale of three zeta functions" I will discuss remarkable analogies between zeta functions encountered in the following settings: number theory, algebraic curves over finite fields and geodesic flows of Riemannian manifolds. |
22/10/2024 | Calum Spicer:
"Classification and curvature of algebraic varieties" A recurring theme in modern geometry is that spaces should be classified according to their curvature properties. In this talk I’ll discuss what this means from the perspective of algebraic geometry. Anthea Monod:"Algebraic Topology and Algebraic Geometry for Data Science" In this talk I will talk about my research areas which deal with computational algebraic topology and computational algebraic geometry. I will overview the utility of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry in data analysis and machine learning. |
29/10/2024 | Igor Wigman:
"Topics in the geometry of numbers" I will present a number of results on the distribution of lattice points. Time allowing, I will also mention an application of the lattice points in mathematical physics, namely, the study of Laplace eigenfunctions on the torus, and other surfaces with arithmetic aspect. Dmitri Panov"Spherical surfaces and their moduli spaces" A spherical surface is a Riemann surface with a curvature 1 metric and a finite number of conical singularities. It can always be glued from a collection of spherical triangles by isometric identification of their sides. Contrary to the hyperbolic case, when the theory is almost identical to the theory of Riemann surfaces, the case of spherical surfaces is wide open. I will speak about some recent results in the area, such as a full description of the moduli space of spherical metrics with one conical singularity on a torus (joint work with Gabrielle Mondello and Alex Eremenko), the description of possible conical angles of a spherical metric on a 2-sphere, disconnectedness of the moduli spaces and their unboundedness (joint work with Gabirelle Mondello). |
05/11/2024 | Cancelled |
12/11/2024 | Dario Beraldo:
"Arithmetic schemes and Deligne—Milnor formula" I'll discuss some instances of the interaction between algebra and topology in algebraic geometry, with particular emphasis on the Bloch conductor conjecture (and its special case, the Deligne--Milnor formula). Mikhail KarpukhinMinimal surfaces and the Laplace operator Minimal surfaces are two-dimensional generalisations of geodesics, namely, they are critical points of the area functional. While it is known that all geodesics in the Euclidean space are straight lines, the theory of minimal surfaces is much more complicated. In this talk I will provide gentle introduction into the subject and explain how minimal surfaces can be described using Laplace operator and its eigenvalues. |
19/11/2024 | Beth Romano:
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03/12/2024 | Rachel Newton:
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10/12/2024 | Soheyla Feyzbakhsh:
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Please get in touch with the event organizers if you have further questions or comments.