Meetings of the COW seminar in 2021-2022
Many of the talks from the 2021-22 academic year were broadcast live online for attendees that could not make it to the in-person meetings. Some of these talks were also recorded; you can access the videos by clicking on the names of the talks below.
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University College London, Thursday 11th November 2021
2:00 Hamid Abban (Loughborough): An update on explicit K-stability; methods and results
3:30 Ivan Smith (Cambridge): Complex cobordism and Hamiltonian loops
5:00 Eloise Hamilton (Cambridge): Smoothness of fixed point sets and cohomology of quotients -
University of Bath, Thursday 20th January 2022
2:00 Ivan Cheltsov (Edinburgh): K-moduli of one-parameter families of smooth Fano threefolds
3:30 Marta Mazzocco (Birmingham): Isomonodromic deformations: confluence, reduction and quantisation
5:00 Gavin Brown (Warwick): Noncommutative singularity theory and flops -
Imperial College, London, Thursday 10th March 2022
12:00 Lunch and panel discussion: Algebra and number theory in Africa
2:00 Praise Adeyemo (Ibadan): Combinatorial and geometric computation of Betti numbers of the Springer variety
3:30 Balázs Szendrői (Oxford): On explicit equations of some moduli spaces
5:00 André Mialebama Bouesso (Marien Ngouabi University, Brazzaville): Investigating codimension 3 Calabi-Yau threefolds in products of projective spaces -
Sankaran at 60 - Cambridge on Thursday 21st April
A special COW meeting in Cambridge to celebrate the 60th birthday of Gregory Sankaran; the link in the title goes to the dedicated event webpage.
1:00 Al Kasprzyk (Nottingham): Exploring the landscape of Fano varieties
2:30 Claire Voisin (Collège de France): A topological characterization of hyper-Kähler fourfolds of Hilb2(K3) type
4:00 Klaus Hulek (Leibniz Universität Hannover): Moduli of cubic surfaces revisited
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