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.

May 7, 2025

  • Algebra seminar: Francesco Costantino (University of Toulouse) - Ribbon categories of bimodules and skein modules 

    May 7, 2025  9:30 am - 10:30 am

    Abstract : We will recall the definition and structure of the category of 3D connected cobordisms with one annular side boundary and the theorem by Kerler and Lyubaschenko allowing to obtain TQFTs representing it algebraically.
    Then we will provide a definition of stated skein modules adapted for general coribbon Hopf algebras and we will show that it provides a braided monoidal functor values in a suitable category of ``half braided algebras’’ and their bimodules whose description will occupy the rest of our talk.
    On the road we will uncover a nice commutative diagram of functors allowing to relate the Kerler-Lyubaschenko functor to stated skeins, as well as a topological interpretation of the quantum moment map. (Joint work with Matthieu Faitg)

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  • EDGE Seminar: Daniil Mamaev (LSGNT) - TBA

    May 7, 2025  10:50 am - 11:50 am
    Bayes 5.46

    TBA

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May 9, 2025

  • EDGE Seminar: Ivan Smith (Cambridge) - Closing Time

    May 9, 2025  10:00 am - 11:00 am
    JCMB 5323

    Abstract: We discuss a mostly unsuccessful approach to proving density results for periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems. This talk reports on joint work with Cheuk Yu Mak and Sobhan Seyfaddini.

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May 12, 2025

  • Algebra Seminar: Roozbeh Hazrat (Western Sydney University) - Monoids, Dynamics and Leavitt algebras

    May 12, 2025  2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
    JCMB 5323

    Leavitt path algebras, which are algebras associated to directed graphs, were first introduced about 20 years ago. They have strong connections to such topics as symbolic dynamics, operator algebras, non-commutative geometry, representation theory, and even chip firing. In this talk we sneak a peek at these fascinating algebras and their interplay with several seemingly disparate parts of mathematics.

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May 14, 2025

  • EDGE Seminar: Abigail Ward (University of Cambridge) - TBA

    May 14, 2025  10:50 am - 11:50 am
    Bayes 5.46

    TBA

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  • Category Theory Seminar: Luuk Stehouwer (Dalhousie) - TBA

    May 14, 2025  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    Bayes 5.45

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May 21, 2025

  • EDGE Seminar: Sebastian Haney (Columbia University) - TBA

    May 21, 2025  9:30 am - 10:30 am
    Bayes 5.46

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  • EDGE Seminar: Luca Giovenzana (University of Sheffield)

    May 21, 2025  10:50 am - 11:50 am
    Bayes 5.46

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May 28, 2025

  • EDGE Seminar: Maxim Jeffs (University of Cambridge) - TBA

    May 28, 2025  10:50 am - 11:50 am
    Bayes 5.46

    TBA

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