Organizers: Simone Cecchini (TAMU), Christos Mantoulidis (Rice), Thérèse Wu (UH).
Next meeting
Friday, Feb 13, 2026 — 12:30 PM CT
Speaker: Jonah Mendel
Topic: Spinors concretely (HT 2.3, 2.4, 2.5)
Live from: Rice — Herman Brown Hall (HBH) 423
Quick info
Time: Fridays at 12:30-1:30 PM (Central)
Format: Zoom + local gathering rooms
Main Reference: [HT] Hutchings–Taubes, An introduction to the Seiberg–Witten equations on symplectic manifolds.
References
[HT] Hutchings, Taubes - An introduction to the Seiberg–Witten equations on symplectic manifolds (main reference).
[LM] Lawson, Michelsohn - Spin Geometry (Princeton, 1989).
[M] Morgan, The Seiberg–Witten Equations and Applications to the Topology of Smooth Four-Manifolds (Princeton Math Notes, 1996).
[N] Nicolaescu, Notes on Seiberg–Witten Theory.
Gathering Locations
Rice: Herman Brown Hall, Room 423
TAMU: BLOC 302 (January 30th BLOC 624)
UH: TBD
Participants
Prasanna Brahme (UH)
Cristian Cisneros (UH)
Jonathon Foley (UH)
Ricardo Gloria (UH)
Shelly Harvey (Rice)
James (Yu Chung) Hung (TAMU)
Milan Jovanovic (TAMU)
Harry Li (Rice)
Yinbang Lin (UH)
José Lopez (TAMU)
Jared Marx-Kuo (Rice)
Jonah Mendel (Rice)
Jo Nelson (Rice)
Nazif Nafi (TAMU)
William Ott (UH)
Brennan Richardson (Rice)
Anthony Sanchez (UH)
Jesus Sanchez Jr (TAMU)
Ian Sebastian (TAMU)
Chenxi Wang (TAMU)
Henry Woodburn (TAMU)
Jiajun Yan (Rice)