RTG @ Northeastern

Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory 

Upcoming Events

Current Events

Past Events

Fall 2024

Advanced mini-course: Bernhard Keller (Université Paris Cité), Towards Higgs categories for cluster algebras in higher Teichmuller Theory, October 21-25, 2024


Summer 2024

Independent Research Experience for undergraduate students

Spring 2024

Advanced mini-course: Andrea d’Agnolo (Università degli studi di Padova), The Riemann-Hilbert correspondence, May 6-9, 2024

Graduate course: MATH 7314 - Algebraic Geometry 1. Instructor: Valerio Toledano Laredo.

Graduate course: MATH 7363 - Topics in Algebraic Geometry (Moduli of Curves). Instructor: Yan Zhou


Graduate course: MATH 7734 Readings in Algebra (Introduction to categorification). Instructor: Iva Halacheva.

Fall 2023

Graduate course: MATH 8450 - Research seminar in mathematics. Instructor: Valerio Toledano Laredo.

Summer 2023

Independent Research Experience for undergraduate students. 


Spring 2023

Research Seminar: MATH 7320 - Modern Algebraic Geometry: Graduate Research Seminar on Stable Envelopes and Quantum Groups. Organizers: E. Casbi, H. Dinkins, I. Halacheva, J. Wen, V. Toledano Laredo, Y. Zhou.

Lecture series for undergraduate students: Moon Duchin (Tufts), February 10, 2023.

Advanced mini-course: David Hernandez (Université Paris Cité), Cluster algebras and quantum affine algebras, March 15-24, 2023 

Conference: New England Algebraic Topology and Mathematical Physics Seminar, April 1-3 2023, Northeastern University. Organizers: Chris Elliott (Amherst College), Ben Knudsen (Northeastern University), Laura Murray (Providence College), Valerio Toledano Laredo (Northeastern University) and Brian Williams (Boston University).


Fall 2022

Graduate course: MATH 7221 - Topology 2. Instructor: Matt Hogancamp

Graduate course: MATH 7364 - Topics in Representation Theory (Lie Groups). Instructor: Valerio Toledano Laredo

Graduate course: MATH 8450 - Research seminar in mathematics. Instructor: Jonathan Weitsman.


Summer 2022

Independent Research Experience for undergraduate students. 


Spring 2022

Graduate course: MATH 7381 Topics in Combinatorics (Schubert Calculus). Instructor: Iva Halacheva


Fall 2021

Graduate course: MATH 7351 - Mathematical methods of classical mechanics. Instructor: Jonathan Weitsman.

Graduate course: MATH 7363 - Topics in algebraic geometry. Instructor: Vance Blankers.

Graduate course: MATH 8450 - Research seminar in mathematics. Instructor: Jonathan Weitsman.


Summer 2021

Independent Research Experience for undergraduate students. 


Spring 2021

Graduate course: MATH 7320 - Modern algebraic geometry. Instructor: Peter Crooks. 

Graduate course: MATH 7363 - Topics in algebraic geometry. Instructor: Matej Penciak.

Graduate course: MATH 7735 - Readings in algebraic geometry. Instructor: Alina Marian

Graduate course: MATH 8450 - Research seminar in mathematics. Instructor: Jonathan Weitsman.


Fall 2020

Graduate course: MATH 7303 - Complex manifolds. Instructor: Alina Marian.

Graduate course: MATH 7316 - Lie algebras. Instructor: Iva Halacheva.

Graduate course: MATH 7352 - Mathematical methods of quantum mechanics. Instructor: Chris Beasley


Summer 2020

Independent Research Experience for undergraduate students. 


Spring 2020

Advanced mini-course: Mario Salvetti (Università di Pisa) and Giovanni Paolini (Caltech), The K(π,1) conjecture for affine Artin groups, March 30-April 3.

Colloquium: Vaughan Jones (Vanderbilt), Joint Mathematics Colloquium, April 16, 4:30PM, Lake Hall 509. 

Advanced mini-course: David Hernandez (Université Paris-Diderot), Title TBA, April 27-May 1.

Advanced undergraduate course: MATH 4577 - Commutative Algebra. Instructor: Oana Veliche. 


Fall 2019

Advanced mini-course: Gennadi Kasparov (Vanderbilt), K-theory of group C*-algebras and applications, October 22,23,24 at 1:15-2:35.

Research Seminar: Factorization Homology along Surfaces and Quantum Groups. Organizers: Brian Williams, Matt Hogancamp, Ben Knudsen, Valerio Toledano Laredo, Pavel Etingof (MIT).

Research Seminar in Mathematics. Instructor: Jonathan Weitsman. 

Graduate course: MATH 7735 Readings in Algebraic Geometry. Instructor: Ignacio Barros Reyes.

Advanced undergraduate course: MATH 3275 - Advanced Group Theory. Instructor: Rob Silversmith.


Summer 2019

Conference: Quantum Structures in Algebra and Geometry. August 26-30, 2019, Northeastern University.

Independent Research Experience for undergraduate students. 


Spring 2019

Graduate course: MATH 7364 – Quantum groups and crystal bases. Instructor: Valerio Toledano Laredo.

Graduate course: MATH 7362 - Derived Deformation Theory. Instructor: Brian Williams. Lecture Notes.

Graduate course: MATH 7374 - Riemannian Geometry and General Relativity. Instructor: Chris Beasley.  Lecture Notes.

Graduate course: MATH 7350 - Microlocal Analysis and Symplectic Geometry Seminar.  Instructors: Jeff Galkowski, Jonathan Weitsman, Ting Zhou.

Research Seminar: MATH 7393 - Moduli theory of sheaves and Vafa-Witten theory. Instructor: Alina Marian.


Fall 2018

Advanced mini-course:  Vikraman Balaji (Chennai Mathematical Institute), Parabolic bundles, parabolic torsors and representations of Fuchsian groups, November 5-8, 2018. 

Advanced mini-course: Owen Gwilliam (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Chern-Simons theory & quantum groups approached through factorization algebras, October 23-25, 2018. 

Research Seminar: MATH 7352 - The Yangian and 4d gauge theory. Organizers: Chris Beasley, Valerio Toledano Laredo, Brian Williams (NEU) and Pavel Etingof (MIT). 

Research Seminar: MATH 8450 - Research Seminar in Mathematics. Instructor: Jonathan Weitsman.

Undergraduate advanced course: MATH 4586 - Algebraic Geometry. Instructor: Mboyo Esole.


Summer 2018

Independent Research Experience for undergraduate students. 


Spring 2018

Advanced mini-course: Samuel Grushevsky (Stony Brook University), Mirzakhani's recursion for Weil-Petersson volumes of moduli spaces, April 17-19, 2018.

Advanced mini-course: Alex Küronya (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), Geometric aspects of Newton-Okounkov bodies, March 12-15, 2018.

Graduate course: MATH 7316 - Lie Algebras. Instructor: Valerio Toledano Laredo.

Graduate course: MATH 7361 - Schemes. Instructor: Emanuele Macrì.

Lecture series for undergraduate students: Aaron Lauda (University of Southern California), February 20-23, 2018. Lecture 1: Diagrammatic algebra; Lecture 2: Higher categories and two-dimensional topology.

Research seminar: Math 8460 - Mapping class groups and the cohomology of moduli spaces of curves. Instructor: Ana-Maria Castravet.


Fall 2017

Advanced mini-course: François Charles (Université Paris-Sud), Algebraic cycles and Arakelov geometry, October 10-13, 2017.

Conference: AGNES, October 13-15, 2017.

Graduate  course: MATH 7320 - Modern Algebraic Geometry. Instructor: Ivan Loseu.

Research seminar: Math 8460 - Category O and Soergel bimodules. Instructor: Ivan Loseu.

Research Seminar: Math 8450 - Research Seminar in Mathematics. Instructor: Jonathan Weitsman.


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