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.

Upcoming Events

  • Piscopia PhD Your Way 2024
    Online Wednesday 6 November 14:00-16:30

    PhD Your Way general registration is now open! If you are considering PhD study in the mathematical sciences or simply would like to find out more about what a PhD is and how applying for them works, this is an amazing opportunity for you. 

     

    WHAT: PhD Your Way 

    WHEN: Wednesday 6 November 14:00-16:30

    WHERE: Online

    WHO: Aimed at people from underrepresented groups in mathematics who want to understand the “Whats, Whys and the Hows” of applying for a mathematics PhD

     

    Register here by Wednesday 30th October: Sign-up to attend It’s completely free!

    • The very basics of maths PhD life will be explained: e.g. funding, stipends, supervisors, conferences, holiday leave and more!
    • You’ll hear from a panel of current maths PhD students about their experiences. There will be a focus on the many different routes into PhDs and on the experience of underrepresented groups within mathematics.
    • You will have the opportunity to talk to PhD students at well over 20 different UK universities about what maths PhDs are like within their research areas and at their universities.
    • Before the event, you’ll be sent an information pack which will contain key information about maths PhDs at those universities.  

    You are encouraged to come even if you have never considered studying for a maths PhD before. For more information, have a look at the website: PhD Your Way (google.com).

Calendar

If you would like your event, working group, or regularly occurring seminar to be added to the calendar below, please contact us.

October 16, 2024

  • Algebra seminar: Daniel Windisch (Edinburgh) - Prime divisors in class groups of affine toric varieties

    October 16, 2024  9:30 am - 10:30 am
    Bayes 5.46

    It is a classical theorem in number theory that every ideal class
    of a ring of algebraic integers contains infinitely many prime ideals.
    In general, the result fails, even for one-dimensional normal Noetherian
    integral affine schemes. In this talk, I will discuss the distribution of
    prime divisors in class groups of affine toric varieties.
    …

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  • EDGE Seminar: Naoki Koseki (Liverpool) - Gopakumar-Vafa invariants of local curves

    October 16, 2024  10:50 am - 11:50 am

    Title: Gopakumar-Vafa invariants of local curves 
    Abstract: In the 1990s, two physicists, Gopakumar and Vafa, proposed an ideal way to count curves in a Calabi-Yau threefold, which is conjecturally equivalent to other curve counting theories such as Gromov-Witten theory. It is very recent that Maulik and Toda gave a mathematically rigorous definition of GV invariants. In this talk,…

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  • Category Theory: Julie Bergner (Virginia) - Combinatorial examples of 2-Segal sets and their Hall algebras

    October 16, 2024  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    Bayes 5.46

    The notion of a 2-Segal set encodes an algebraic structure that is similar to that of a category, but for which composition need not exist or be unique, yet is still associative. The fact that such structures give rise to Hall algebras, generalizing constructions in representation theory and algebraic geometry, is one of the primary motivations for studying them.…

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October 23, 2024

  • Algebra seminar: James Taylor (Cambridge)

    October 23, 2024  9:30 am - 10:30 am
    Bayes 5.46

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  • EDGE Seminar: Jungkai Chen (Taipei) - Introduction to classification of threefolds of general type.

    October 23, 2024  10:50 am - 11:50 am

    In higher dimensional algebraic geometry, the following three types of varieties are considered to be the building blocks: Fano varities, Calabi-Yau varieties, and varieties of general type. In the study of varieties of general type, one usually works on "good models" inside birtationally equivalent classes. Minimal models and canonical models are natural choices of good models.
    In the…

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  • Category Theory: Isky Mathews (Edinburgh) - TBA

    October 23, 2024  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    Bayes 5.46

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October 30, 2024

  • Algebra seminar: Joshua Wen

    October 30, 2024  9:30 am - 10:30 am
    Bayes 5.46

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  • EDGE Seminar: Nick Proudfoot (University of Oregon) - Positivity theorems for hyperplane arrangements via intersection theory

    October 30, 2024  10:50 am - 11:50 am

    Abstract: I will discuss three recent combinatorial theorems about hyperplane arrangements:  the top-heavy conjecture, log concavity of the characteristic polynomial, and non-negativity of the Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial.  Each of these results is proved by studying the cohomology of a projective algebraic variety associated with the arrangement.

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  • Category Theory: TBA

    October 30, 2024  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    Bayes 5.46

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  • MAXIMALS: Marcelo Pereya

    October 30, 2024  3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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November 6, 2024

  • EDGE Seminar: Mahrud Sayrafi (MPI Leipzig) - TBA

    November 6, 2024  10:50 am - 11:50 am

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  • Category Theory: Lucy Spouncer (Edinburgh) - TBA

    November 6, 2024  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
    Bayes 5.46

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  • Piscopia PhD Your Way 2024

    November 6, 2024  2:00 pm - 4:30 pm

    PhDYour Way general registration is now open! If you are considering PhD study in the mathematicalsciences or simply would like to find out more about what a PhD is and howapplying for them works, this is an amazing opportunity for you. 

     

    WHAT:PhD YourWay 

    WHEN:Wednesday 6November 14:00…

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  • MAXIMALS: Alice Kerr

    November 6, 2024  3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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