Past Talks

SPRING 2024

July 2, 2024, Riccardo Piovani (Università di Torino), "L^2 Hodge Theory on complex manifolds"

May 30, 2024, Stefano Montaldo (Università degli Studi di Cagliari), "Biconservative submanifolds"

May 20, 2024, Andrea Bisterzo (Sapienza Università di Roma), "Weak maximum principles for elliptic operators in unbounded Riemannian domains and an application to a symmetry problem"

May 2, 2024, Kotaro Kawai (Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications), "Manifolds with exceptional holonomy and mirrors of their submanifolds"

April 16, 2024, James Stanfield (Universität Münster), "Hermitian curvature flows on Lie groups"

April 4, 2024, Fernanda Roing (Università di Torino), "Sharp pinching theorems for complete CMC hypersurfaces in the sphere"

March 22, 2024, Giovanni Gentili (Università di Torino), "Special metrics in hypercomplex Geometry"

March 22, 2024, Udhav Fowdar (Università di Torino), "Flows of SU(2)-structures"

FALL 2023

November 14, 2023, Davide Spriano (Oxford University), "From graph properties to group theory"

November 14, 2023, Ricardo Mendes (University of Oklahoma),  "A Weyl Law for singular Riemannian foliations"

October 24, 2023, Andreas Savas-Halilaj (Univ. Ioannina, Greece), "Graphical mean curvature flow and isotopy problems"

September 18, 2023, Cícero Tiarlos Nogueira Cruz (Univ. Federal de Alagoas), "Existence and obstructions for the curvature on compact surfaces with boundary"

September 18, 2023, Leandro F. Pessoa (Universidade Federal do Piauí), "Infinity harmonic functions and the splitting of complete manifolds"


SPRING 2023

June 20, 2023, Maria Andrade (Universidade Federal de Sergipe), "Besse’s conjecture: a new geometric point of view"

June 12, 2023, Christoph Böhm (Universität Münster), "The Alekseevskii Conjecture"

June 5, 2023, Catherine Searle (Wichita State University), "Positive Curvature and Discrete Abelian Symmetries"

May 17, 2023, Alejandro Gil-Garcia (Universität Hamburg), "Complete cohomogeneity one supergravity c-map spaces"

April 27, 2023, Alessandro Savo (Sapenza Università di Roma), "Free boundary surfaces and the magnetic Steklov problem" 

April 20, 2023, Weiyong He (University of Oregon), "Harmonic and biharmonic almost complex structures"

March 28, 2023, Allan Freitas (Universidade Federal da Paraíba), "Integral identities and rigidity problems for Riemannian manifolds"

March 14, 2023, Semyon Alesker (Tel Aviv University), "Octonionic Calabi-Yau Theorem"

February 10, 2023, Alvaro Pampano (Texas Tech University), "Existence and Properties of Closed Free p-Elastic Curves"

February 7, 2023, Fridrich Valach (Imperial College London), "Courant algebroids and supergravity" (watch the video, slides)

January 25, 2023, Dmitri Alekseevsky (Institute for Information Transmission Problem RAS, Moscow), "Special Vinberg cones of rank 2 and 3 and their application to Information Geometry and Supergravity"


FALL 2022

December 13, 2022, Giuseppe Pipoli (Università degli Studi dell'Aquila), "Constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in H^n x R with small planar boundary"

November 22, 2022, Vladimir Slesar (University Politehnica of Bucharest), "Vaisman manifolds, transverse Kähler-Ricci flow and Einstein-Weyl structures" (watch the video)

October 18, 2022, Fernanda Roing (Universidade Federal do Ceará - Campus de Itapajé), "Mean curvature flow of graphs in generalized Robertson–Walker spacetimes with perpendicular Neumann boundary condition"

October 12, 2022, Thomas Ivey (College of Charleston), "Constructing Solitons for an Isometric Flow on G_2 Structures"


SPRING 2022

July 12, 2022, Lucia Martín-Merchán (Università degli Studi di Torino), "Resolution of symplectic and closed G_2 orbifolds"

May 31, 2022, Alexey Bolsinov (Loughborough University), "On integrability of geodesic flows on 3-dimensional manifolds" (watch the video)

May 24, 2022, Michele Rimoldi (Politecnico di Torino), "Quantitative index bounds for translators via topology "

May 17, 2022, Anna Barbieri (Università degli Studi di Milano), "On quiver categories associated to quadratic differentials"

May 3, 2022, Marco Pozzetta (Università di Napoli Federico II), "On the existence of isoperimetric sets on nonnegatively curved spaces" (watch the video)

April 19, 2022, James Stanfield (The University of Queensland), "Compact Gauduchon-Flat Hermitian manifolds" (slides)

April 5, 2022, Theodora Bourni (University of Tennessee Knoxville), "Convex ancient solutions to free boundary curve shortening flow" (watch the video)

March 22, 2022,  Mattia Fogagnolo (Centro De Giorgi - SNS), "New integral estimates in substatic manifolds and the Alexandrov Theorem" (watch the video)

February 22, 2022, Xi Sisi Shen (Columbia University), "Metrics of constant Chern scalar curvature and a Chern-Calabi flow" (watch the video)

February 8, 2022, Miguel Domínguez-Vázquez (University of Santiago de Compostela), "Inhomogeneous isoparametric hypersurfaces in symmetric spaces of noncompact type" (watch the video)

January 25, 2022, Mario Schulz (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster), "Noncompact self-shrinkers for mean curvature flow" (watch the video)

January 11, 2022, Pablo Mira (Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena), "The Bernstein problem for Weingarten surfaces" (watch the video)


FALL 2021

December 7, 2021, Alex Mramor (Johns Hopkins University), "Some new applications of the mean curvature flow to self shrinkers" (watch the video)

November 30, 2021, Marcin Sroka (Jagiellonian University), "The conjecture of Alesker and Verbitsky under hyperKähler assumption" (watch the video)

November 9, 2021, Katrin Leschke (University of Leicester), "Links between the integrable systems of a CMC surface" (watch the video)

November 2, 2021, Romina Arroyo (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba), "On the signature of the Ricci curvature on nilmanifolds" (watch the video)

October 12, 2021, Joseph Cho (TU Wien), "Monodromy of discrete Darboux transformations" (watch the video)

September 28, 2021, Alberto Raffero (Università degli Studi di Torino), "Recent results on closed G2-structures" (slides)


SPRING 2021

June 23, 2021, Viviana del Barco (Universidade Estadual de Campinas), "(Purely) coclosed G2-structures on 2-step nilmanifolds" (watch the video)

June 8, 2021, Nicolina Istrati (Philipps Universität Marburg), "On some variational problems in conformal geometry" (watch the video)

May 26, 2021, Claudio Arezzo (ICTP), "Recent developments on the existence of Kaehler constant scalar curvature metrics" (watch the video)

May 19, 2021, Giuseppe Tinaglia (King's College London), "The geometry of constant mean curvature surfaces in Euclidean space" (watch the video)

May 11, 2021, Andrei Moroianu (Université Paris-Saclay), "Metric connections with parallel torsion" (watch the video)

April 29, 2021, Christos-Raent Onti (University of Cyprus), "A class of Einstein submanifolds of Euclidean space" (watch the video)

April 12, 2021, Yury Ustinovskiy (New York University), "Gibbons-Hawking ansatz and Generalized Kähler solitons" (watch the video

March 24, 2021, Lorenzo Mazzieri (Università degli Studi di Trento), "Serrin-type theorems for domains with disconnected boundary" (watch the video)

March 9, 2021, Sebastien Picard (University of British Columbia), "Metrics Through Non-Kähler Transitions" (watch the video)

February 23, 2021, Vladimir Matveev (Universität Jena), "Nijenhuis geometry, multihamiltonian systems of hydrodynamic type and geodesic equivalence" (watch the video

February 9, 2021, Ben Sharp (University of Leeds), "Łojasiewicz-type inequalities for the H-functional near simple bubble trees" (watch the video)

January 27, 2021, Francesco Bonsante (Università degli Studi di Pavia), "Minimizing immersions of surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds"  (watch the video)

January 14, 2021, Philippe Castillon (IMAG (UMR CNRS 5149) -  CC 51, Univ. de Montpellier), "Prescribing the Gauss curvature of hyperbolic convex bodies" (watch the video)


FALL 2020

December 14, 2020, Thomas Ivey (College of Charleston), "New Integrable Curve Flows in the Pseudoconformal 3-Sphere"

December 1, 2020, Jason Lotay (University of Oxford), "Minimal Lagrangians and where to find them" (watch the video)

November 20, 2020, Andreas Vollmer (Politecnico di Torino), "Two-dimensional superintegrable metrics with symmetries that preserve geodesic curves" (watch the video)

November 20, 2020, Mason Pember (Politecnico di Torino), "Spherical curves in Lie sphere geometry" (watch the video)

November 17, 2020: Tommaso Pacini (Università degli Studi di Torino), "From calibrated geometry to holomorphic invariants" (watch the video)

October 28, 2020: Wayne Rossman (Kobe University), "Infinitesimal Darboux transformation and semi-discrete mKdV equation" (watch the video)

October 20, 2020: Giovanni Bazzoni (Università degli Studi dell'Insubria), "Symmetric and skew-symmetric complex structures" (watch the video)