Meetings of the COW seminar in 2025-2026
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University of Warwick, Thursday 27th November 2025
2:00 Ben Davison (Edinburgh): The topology of the stack of semistable coherent sheaves on a K3 surface
4:00 Daniel Huybrechts (Bonn): The period-index problem for hyperkähler varieties
5:00 Jarosław Buczyński (IMPAN): Three stories of Riemannian and complex projective manifolds -
University of Liverpool, Thursday 12th February 2026
1:30 Siao Chi Mok (Cambridge): Logarithmic Fulton–MacPherson configuration spaces
3:00 Pierrick Bousseau (Oxford): The KSBA moduli space of stable log Calabi-Yau surfaces
4:30 Sam Molcho (La Sapienza, Rome): Intersection theory of degenerating abelian schemes -
Imperial College, London, Thursday 19th March 2026
1:00 Rahul Pandharipande (ETH Zurich): GW/DT in families
2:30 Kento Fujita (Osaka): Elementary links from prime Fano 3-folds along 2 lines
3:50 Giulia Gugiatti (Edinburgh): Kuznetsov components in mirror symmetry - COW at the British Mathematical Colloquium, Cardiff University, 30th March - 2nd April 2026
The COW hosted the Geometry Section at the 77th British Mathematical Colloquium.
Monday 30th March:
3:00 Dhruv Ranganathan (Cambridge): The LMNOP conjecture
4:30 Lukas Bertsch (Vienna): Variation of crepant resolutions of Kleinian singularities
5:00 Hülya Argüz (Oxford): b-complex manifolds with generalized corners and Kato–Nakayama spacesTuesday 31st March:
3:00 Konstanze Rietsch (KCL): On mirror symmetry for Schubert varieties
4:30 Peize Liu (Warwick): Moduli spaces from the Kuznetsov component of cubic fivefolds
5:00 Enrico Fatighenti (Bologna): Modular vector bundles on hyperkähler manifoldsWednesday 1st April:
3:00 Robert Hanson (Imperial): Parabolic induction for Higgs bundles
4:30 Heath Pearson (Nottingham): The Mukai conjecture for spherical varieties
5:00 Piotr Pokora (Krakow): Curves and surfaces with extreme propertiesThursday 2nd April:
1:30 Vladimir Baranovsky (UC Irvine): Geometry of curved Maurer-Cartan functors
3:00 Alastair Craw (Bath): Deformations of Kleinian singularities and their Hilbert schemes
4:00 Marc Truter (Warwick): Fano 4-fold hypersurfaces
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