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.

November 5, 2025

  • Algebra Seminar: Cameron Kruwleski (Dalhousie) - Invertible Field Theories and the Bott Spiral

    November 5, 2025  9:30 am - 10:30 am
    Bayes 5.46

    Abstract: I will introduce the homotopy-theoretic classification of fully extended reflection-positive invertible field theories and their application to classifying symmetry-protected topological phases (SPTs) in physics. In ongoing work with Arun Debray, Natalia Pacheco-Tallaj, and Luuk Stehouwer, we use twisted index maps to relate invertible field theories and K-theory, modeling a physics process comparing free and interacting SPTs. In our example of interest, we witness the "Morita variance" of invertible field theories, in which Bott periodicity in K-theory is mapped to a non-periodic "Bott spiral" of invertible field theories.

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  • EDGE Seminar: Hamid Abban (University of Nottingham) - TBA

    November 5, 2025  10:50 am - 11:50 am
    Bayes 5.46

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  • Category Theory Seminar: Tobias Fritz (Innsbruck) - Markov categories and the law of large numbers

    November 5, 2025  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    Bayes 5.46

    Markov categories are a surprisingly powerful categorical framework for probability theory and statistics. But in order to be taken seriously, any such framework needs to provide an account of the fundamental theorems of probability theory: the law of large numbers. In this talk, I will give an introduction to Markov categories and explain how to formulate a categorical version of the law of large numbers. This revolves around the idea of empirical sampling, by which we mean drawing a uniformly random element from an infinite sequence of samples. I will explain how to make this idea precise in categorical terms, what it has to do with randomly permuting an infinite sequence, and how to formulate a strong law of large numbers (Glivenko–Cantelli theorem) in terms of it. There are close connections with restriction categories and with de Finetti's theorem.

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  • GGT: NBGGT

    November 5, 2025  2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
    Appelton Tower 2.12

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  • GGT: NBGGT

    November 5, 2025  2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
    Appelton Tower 2.12

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  • AGATE: Cancelled

    November 5, 2025  3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    3.01 40 George Square, The University of Edinburgh, EH8 9JX, UK

    Cancelled

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November 6, 2025

  • AGQ integrability seminar

    November 6, 2025  1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
    The Bayes Centre, The University of Edinburgh, 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh EH8 9BT, UK

    Bayes Centre, room 5.46

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November 12, 2025

  • Algebra Seminar: Francesca Paganelli (Rome & Paris)

    November 12, 2025  9:30 am - 10:30 am
    Bayes 5.46

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  • EDGE Seminar: Aporva Varshney (UCL) - TBA

    November 12, 2025  10:50 am - 11:50 am
    Bayes 5.46

    Abstract: TBA

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  • Category Theory Seminar: Volodymyr Lyubashenko (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) - Biprops and symmetric weak multicategories

    November 12, 2025  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    Bayes 5.46

    I shall discuss structures which arise in the definition of biprops – weakly category enriched coloured props. In particular, the set of operations (Xi)i∈I → (Yj)j∈J (Xi and Yj are colours) is a category, and the composition of operations is a functor. We relate the notion of a biprop with the notion of a weak Cat-enriched symmetric multicategory. Namely, for a given weak Cat-enriched symmetric multicategory we construct a biprop so that to a multifunctor of such multicategories there corresponds a morphism of biprops.

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  • AGATE: Elina Robeva (University of British Columbia) - tbd

    November 12, 2025  3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    3.01 40 George Square, The University of Edinburgh, EH8 9JX, UK

    tbd

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November 19, 2025

  • EDGE Seminar: Alan Thompson (University of Loughborough)

    November 19, 2025  10:50 am - 11:50 am
    Bayes 5.46

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  • Category Theory Seminar: Malthe Sporring - TBA

    November 19, 2025  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    Bayes 5.46

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  • GGT: John Duale' and Rafaela Ioannou

    November 19, 2025  3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    Appleton Tower 2.12

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  • GGT: John Duale' and Rafaela Ioannou

    November 19, 2025  3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    Appleton Tower 2.12

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  • AGATE: tbd

    November 19, 2025  3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    3.01 40 George Square, The University of Edinburgh, EH8 9JX, UK

    tbd

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November 20, 2025

  • AGQ integrability seminar

    November 20, 2025  1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
    School of Mathematics and Statistics, 132 University Pl, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK

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November 26, 2025

  • Algebra Seminar: Théo Pinet (McGill)

    November 26, 2025  9:30 am - 10:30 am
    Bayes 5.46

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  • EDGE Seminar: Jarosław Buczyński (IMPAN) - TBA

    November 26, 2025  10:50 am - 11:50 am
    Bayes 5.46

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  • AGATE: tbd

    November 26, 2025  3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    3.01 40 George Square, The University of Edinburgh, EH8 9JX, UK

    tbd

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November 4, 2025
November 5, 2025
November 7, 2025
November 14, 2025

  • Anchored In Training: Placement Ready – Building the Skills for Success - Cohort 1

    November 14, 2025
    Studio 2, Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Ln, Glasgow G11 6EW, UK

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  • Examples Showcase - Cohort 2

    November 14, 2025
    Edinburgh

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  • AGQ Responsible Research & Innovation session - Cohort 2

    November 14, 2025  2:15 pm - 4:15 pm
    University of Edinburgh

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November 21, 2025
November 28, 2025

  • Examples Showcase - Cohort 2

    November 28, 2025
    Edinburgh

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  • AGQ Responsible Research & Innovation session - Cohort 2

    November 28, 2025  2:15 pm - 4:15 pm
    University of Edinburgh

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January 28, 2026

  • Glasgow Science Centre online session - Cohort 2

    January 28, 2026  9:00 am - 1:00 pm

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February 4, 2026

  • Glasgow Science Centre online session - Cohort 2

    February 4, 2026  9:00 am - 1:00 pm

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February 20, 2026

  • Glasgow Science Centre in-person day - Cohort 2

    February 20, 2026
    Glasgow Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay, Glasgow G51 1EA, UK

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March 13, 2026
April 16, 2026

  • Glasgow Science Centre in-person day - Cohort 2

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

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