Calendar of Events

See below the calendar and details of our upcoming AGQ events, including various regular seminars, local workshops & conferences, and cohort activities.

Please see the Training page for timetabling of current courses.

Current students, supervisors and colleagues, please contact us with any upcoming events or ongoing seminar series of interest to AGQ students, and we will include them here.

External partners, please contact us if you are organising an event that may be of interest to our students.

April 15, 2026
  • Algebra Seminar: Mateusz Stroinski (Hamburg) - Finite pre-tensor categories that are Morita equivalent to finite tensor categories

    April 15, 2026  9:30 am - 10:30 am
    Bayes 5.46

    In the study of dualizability of tensor categories, Brochier-Jordan-Snyder observe that the tensor product of two (compact-)rigid monoidal categories may fail to be (compact-)rigid, and hence the collection of such categories fails to form a well-behaved higher category, in which fully extended topological field theories could take values. To remedy this, one weakens the definition of a tensor category and instead requires only rigidity of (compact) projective objects, known as cp-rigidity.

    In this talk, I will present some initial structural results for module categories over finite cp-rigid categories, which we term pre-tensor categories, following Décoppet. This includes variants of the standard reconstruction results via algebra and bimodule objects, a description of exact module categories, and, perhaps most importantly, a characterization of pre-tensor categories which are Morita equivalent to (rigid, finite) tensor categories. Higher-categorical applications include a characterization of fully dualizable pre-tensor categories, and of Witt equivalence as equivalence internal to the Morita 4-category of braided tensor categories.

    This talk is based on work in progress joint with Thibault Décoppet.

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  • EDGE Seminar: Michele Bolognesi (University of Grenoble) - Moduli space of bundles as orbital degeneracy loci

    April 15, 2026  10:50 am - 11:50 am
    Bayes 5.46

    Abstract: In this talk we will describe an interpretation of a certain moduli space of vector bundles of rank 3 on a curve of genus 2 as an orbital degeneracy locus on the Grassmannian G(3,9). This allows to extract interesting geometric data about the moduli space and has also some consequences on models of K3 surfaces of genus 19. This is a…

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  • Hodge Seminar: Olivier Schiffmann (Université de Paris-Saclay) - Khovanov-Lauda-Rouquier type algebras associated to curves

    April 15, 2026  2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
    BAYES Meeting room 5.46 (capacity 30) (GB)

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April 16, 2026
  • EDI-GLA integrability seminar

    April 16, 2026  12:00 pm - 3:30 pm
    The Bayes Centre, The University of Edinburgh, 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh EH8 9BT, UK

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April 22, 2026
  • Algebra Seminar: Loïc Poulain d'Andecy (Reims)

    April 22, 2026  9:30 am - 10:30 am
    Bayes 5.46

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  • EDGE Seminar: Lucien Hennecart (Université de Picardie Jules Verne) - TBA

    April 22, 2026  10:50 am - 11:50 am
    Bayes 5.46

    Abstract: TBA

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  • Category Theory Seminar: Steve Awodey (Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge) - Algebraic type theory

    April 22, 2026  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    Bayes 5.46

    A representable natural transformation u : U* —> U in the category Psh(C) of presheaves on a small category C is a “natural model" of dependent type theory. The type-forming operations may be described as algebraic structure on u, representing corresponding operations on the type-families classified by u. For example, the dependent product or “Pi-type” is an algebra structure for the polynomial endofunctor

    P_u : Psh(C) —> Psh(C) .

    Similar operations on u represent the other type-formers of unit type, dependent sums, and identity types. The latter are given by a newly discovered “path-type” structure, which relates such models to cubical (Quillen) model categories.

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April 29, 2026
  • Algebra Seminar: Francesco Sala (Pisa)

    April 29, 2026  9:30 am - 10:30 am
    Bayes 5.46

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April 30, 2026
  • EDI-GLA integrability seminar

    April 30, 2026  12:00 pm - 3:30 pm
    School of Mathematics and Statistics, 132 University Pl, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK

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May 6, 2026
  • Algebra Seminar: Thorsten Heidersdorf (Newcastle)

    May 6, 2026  9:30 am - 10:30 am
    Bayes 5.46

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  • EDGE Seminar: Bogdan Simeonov (Imperial College London) - TBA

    May 6, 2026  10:50 am - 11:50 am
    Bayes 5.46

    Abstract: TBA

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April 16, 2026
  • Glasgow Science Centre in-person day - Cohort 1

    April 16, 2026
    Glasgow Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay, Glasgow G51 1EA, UK

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May 26, 2026
  • AGQ CDT Retreat

    May 26, 2026 - May 29, 2026  
    Gartmore House, Stirlingshire

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  • SCOTIE 2026

    May 26, 2026 - May 29, 2026  
    School of Mathematics and Statistics, 132 University Pl, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK, Room 116

    Symplectic singularities, representation theory and Integrability: Link to SCOTIE website

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May 27, 2026
  • AGQ CDT Retreat

    May 26, 2026 - May 29, 2026  
    Gartmore House, Stirlingshire

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  • SCOTIE 2026

    May 26, 2026 - May 29, 2026  
    School of Mathematics and Statistics, 132 University Pl, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK, Room 116

    Symplectic singularities, representation theory and Integrability: Link to SCOTIE website

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May 28, 2026
  • AGQ CDT Retreat

    May 26, 2026 - May 29, 2026  
    Gartmore House, Stirlingshire

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  • SCOTIE 2026

    May 26, 2026 - May 29, 2026  
    School of Mathematics and Statistics, 132 University Pl, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK, Room 116

    Symplectic singularities, representation theory and Integrability: Link to SCOTIE website

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May 29, 2026
  • AGQ CDT Retreat

    May 26, 2026 - May 29, 2026  
    Gartmore House, Stirlingshire

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  • SCOTIE 2026

    May 26, 2026 - May 29, 2026  
    School of Mathematics and Statistics, 132 University Pl, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK, Room 116

    Symplectic singularities, representation theory and Integrability: Link to SCOTIE website

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August 24, 2026
  • AGQ CDT Conference

    August 24, 2026 - August 28, 2026  
    School of Mathematics and Statistics, 132 University Pl, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK

    The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from geometric group theory, dynamics, and operator algebras to highlight and strengthen connections among our areas. The conference will include both research talks and introductory mini-courses, making it especially beneficial for early-career researchers. There will also be opportunities for lightning talks and poster presentations.

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August 25, 2026
  • AGQ CDT Conference

    August 24, 2026 - August 28, 2026  
    School of Mathematics and Statistics, 132 University Pl, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK

    The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from geometric group theory, dynamics, and operator algebras to highlight and strengthen connections among our areas. The conference will include both research talks and introductory mini-courses, making it especially beneficial for early-career researchers. There will also be opportunities for lightning talks and poster presentations.

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August 26, 2026
  • AGQ CDT Conference

    August 24, 2026 - August 28, 2026  
    School of Mathematics and Statistics, 132 University Pl, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK

    The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from geometric group theory, dynamics, and operator algebras to highlight and strengthen connections among our areas. The conference will include both research talks and introductory mini-courses, making it especially beneficial for early-career researchers. There will also be opportunities for lightning talks and poster presentations.

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August 27, 2026
  • AGQ CDT Conference

    August 24, 2026 - August 28, 2026  
    School of Mathematics and Statistics, 132 University Pl, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK

    The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from geometric group theory, dynamics, and operator algebras to highlight and strengthen connections among our areas. The conference will include both research talks and introductory mini-courses, making it especially beneficial for early-career researchers. There will also be opportunities for lightning talks and poster presentations.

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August 28, 2026
  • AGQ CDT Conference

    August 24, 2026 - August 28, 2026  
    School of Mathematics and Statistics, 132 University Pl, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK

    The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from geometric group theory, dynamics, and operator algebras to highlight and strengthen connections among our areas. The conference will include both research talks and introductory mini-courses, making it especially beneficial for early-career researchers. There will also be opportunities for lightning talks and poster presentations.

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