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.

February 11, 2026
  • Algebra Seminar: Simon Lentner (Hamburg) - Nichols algebras, braided tensor categories and conformal field theory

    February 11, 2026  9:30 am - 10:30 am
    Bayes 5.46

    Abstract: To any object in a braided tensor category we can associate a Nichols algebra, either through braid group combinatorics or through a universal property. The main motivation for Nichols algebras is to systematically construct the quantum group from its Cartan part. This idea goes back to Lusztig, but I will present it in modern categorical language. Then I will sketch how Nichols algebras can be used to construct solutions of the Knishnik Zomolochikov differential equation from its respective abelian version, and to construct a conformal field theory associated to the (small) quantum group from a free field theory. This parallelism is a main ingredient in our recent proof of the logarithmic Kazhdan Lusztig correspondence, which is the nonsemisimple small-quantum-group-analog of the more familiar Kazhdan Lusztig correspondence. At the same time, the construction produces many new nonsemisimple braided tensor categories, topological field theories and conformal field theories, correspondingly.

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  • EDGE Seminar: Aurore Boitrel (Université Aix-Marseille) - Automorphism groups of real rational Del Pezzo surfaces of degree 4

    February 11, 2026  10:50 am - 11:50 am
    Bayes 5.46

    Del Pezzo surfaces and their automorphism groups play a key role in the classification up to conjugacy of finite subgroups of the Cremona group of the plane. Over an algebraically closed field, they are completely classified together with their automorphism groups. In this talk, we will focus on real rational Del Pezzo surfaces of degree 4. Unlike larger degrees, the…

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  • Category Theory Seminar: Francesco Tesolin - Inverse semigroups acting on presheaves

    February 11, 2026  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    Bayes 5.46

    I will recall a class of action of inverse semigroups, how they form a topos and their connections with presheaves over a semilattice. Then, I will present some new work showing which representations these actions correspond to and how this result can be used to relate two inverse semigroups, one coming from automorphisms of a sheaf and one coming from automorphisms of a bundle.

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February 17, 2026
  • GGT: Stephen Cantrell

    February 17, 2026  2:15 pm - 3:15 pm

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  • GGT: Stephen Cantrell

    February 17, 2026  2:15 pm - 3:15 pm

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February 18, 2026
  • Algebra Seminar: Chris Bowman (York)

    February 18, 2026  9:30 am - 10:30 am
    Bayes 5.46

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  • EDGE Seminar: Yankı Lekili (Imperial College London) - TBA

    February 18, 2026  10:50 am - 11:50 am
    Bayes 5.46

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  • Category Theory Seminar: Zev Shirazi (Oxford) - TBA

    February 18, 2026  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    Bayes 5.46

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February 19, 2026
  • EDI-GLA integrability seminar

    February 19, 2026  1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
    The Bayes Centre, The University of Edinburgh, 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh EH8 9BT, UK

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February 25, 2026
  • Algebra Seminar: Livio Ferretti (Glasgow)

    February 25, 2026  9:30 am - 10:30 am
    Bayes 5.46

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  • EDGE Seminar: Tudor Pădurariu (Bonn) - TBA

    February 25, 2026  10:50 am - 11:50 am
    Bayes 5.46

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  • Category Theory Seminar: Karel Devriendt (Oxford) - TBA

    February 25, 2026  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    Bayes 5.46

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March 4, 2026
  • Algebra Seminar: Maksymilian Manko (Zurich)

    March 4, 2026  9:30 am - 10:30 am
    Bayes 5.46

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  • EDGE Seminar: Michel Van Garrel (University of Birmingham) - TBA

    March 4, 2026  10:50 am - 11:50 am
    Bayes 5.46

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  • Category Theory Seminar: Francesca Pratali (Utrecht) - TBA

    March 4, 2026  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    Bayes 5.46

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  • GGT: Jarek Kedra

    March 4, 2026  3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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  • GGT: Jarek Kedra

    March 4, 2026  3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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March 5, 2026
  • EDI-GLA integrability seminar

    March 5, 2026  1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
    School of Mathematics and Statistics, 132 University Pl, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK

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February 20, 2026
  • Glasgow Science Centre in-person day - Cohort 1

    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 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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