Welcome to CIRGET Junior
Seminars in Geometry and Topology for youngsters. Organised by: Ben Smith and Kael Dixon

Winter 2013

Thursdays from 5-7 pm in BURN-1120, Burnside Hall, McGill.
Date Speaker University Title
January 24 Ben Smith McGill University Metrics on a space of metrics
January 31 Daniel Woodhouse McGill University Why Higher Homotopy Groups are the Worst
February 7 Ben Smith McGill University Towards Higher Homotopy Groups of Bundle Moduli Moduli Spaces
February 14 Adam Alcolado McGill University Intersection Theory and Schubert Calculus
February 21 Ben Smith McGill University Grassmannians, Flag Varieties and Schubert Cells
March 14 Kael Dixon McGill University Representations of finite groups I
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CIRGET Junior Fall 2012

Thursdays and Fridays at 2:00 pm, Room BURN-1120, Burnside Hall, McGill.
Date Speaker University Title
September 13 Kael Dixon McGill University Introduction to Ricci Flow: existence and uniqueness
September 20 Kael Dixon McGill University Introduction to Ricci Flow part II
September 27 Ben Smith McGill University Vector Bundles on a Compact Surface
October 4 Ben Smith McGill Singular G-Monopoles
October 18 Anusar Farooqui McGill University Killing-Yano Theory
October 25 Ben Smith McGill University Stability of G-Higgs bundles
November 8 Sebastian Picard McGill University The Calabi Conjecture
November 15 Brian Seguin McGill University The Transport Theorem
November 22 Adam Alcolado McGill University Real enumeration of lines on a cubic surface
November 29 Adam Alcolado McGill University Real enumeration of lines (Part II)
December 6 Ben Smith McGill University Triangle groups and platonic solids
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CIRGET Junior Winter 2012

Thursdays 3:00 pm, Room BURN-920, Burnside Hall, McGill
Date Speaker University Title
January 18 Francois Charest Université de Montréal The Stasheff associahedra in geometry and topology
January 26 Brian Seguin McGill University Introduction to Differential Chains: a new way of integrating
February 2 Artour Tomberg McGill University Lax equations and line bundles
February 9 Benjamin Smith McGill University Holomorphic line bundles over real algebraic curves
February 16 Huygens Ravelomanana Université du Québec à Montréal Introduction to equivariant cohomology
March 1 Kael Dixon McGill University Classifying Lie groups by Dynkin diagrams
March 8 Huygens Université du Québec à Montréal Intro to equivariant cohomology II
March 15 Ben Smith McGill University Stability of principal bundles
March 22 Canceled 25 degrees outside
March 29 Ben Smith McGill University An Application of Infinite Dimensional Equivaraint Cohomology
April 5 Lenka Háková Université de Montréal Orbit Functions
April 12 Ben Smith McGill University Triangle Groups
April 19 Huygens Ravelomanana Université du Québec à Montréal 2-Orbifolds
April 26 Brian Seguin McGill University Transport Theorems
May 3 Jason Polák McGill University Four Views of Group Cohomology
May 10 Kael Dixon McGill University Minimal Model Program on Toric Surfaces
June 15 Brenden Keith McGill University Variational Methods in Reimannian Geometry
July 2 Brendon Keith McGill University Variational Methods in Reimannian Geometry Part II

CIRGET Junior 2011

Mondays 4:00 pm, Room BURN-1024, Burnside Hall, McGill
Date Speaker University Title
November 9 Benjamin Smith McGill University Classifying spaces and universal bundles
November 16 Kael Dixon McGill University Symmetries of Hermitian Manifolds
November 23 Hadi Bigdely McGill University Quasi-convexity and relatively hyperbolic groups that split
November 30 Benjamin Smith McGill University Singular Hermitian-Einstein monopoles
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Topic ideas

For those of you who would like to give talks, I have prepared a list of some things that I would love see: Some of these topics are actually quite simple! Please contact me if you would like to talk about any of these topics and I can point you in the right direction.