First Semester 2025:

Tuesdays, 12-1pm

Sept. 23, WGB 3.04: Matthias Storzer (UCC), "Knots and modular forms"

Sept. 30, WGB 1.56: Tsukasa Ishibashi (Tohoku), "Cyclic quantum Teichmüller theory"

Oct. 7, WGB 1.56: Matthew Litman (UCD), "Markoff-like surfaces and divisibility of orbits"

Oct. 14: no colloquium, meeting at RIA

Oct. 21, WGB 3.04: Anne Moreau (Orsay), "Vertex algebras, associated varieties and modular forms"

Oct. 28: Two talks!

• WGB G.02, 11-12pm: Jonathan Hickman (Edinburgh), "The Kakeya Conjecture: where does it come from and why is it important?"
• WGB G.05, 12-1pm: James Wright (Edinburgh), "Recent progress in pointwise ergodic theory"

Nov. 4, WGB G.15: Christian Ketterer (Maynooth), "Introduction to RCD spaces and applications to Scalar curvature stability problems"

Nov. 11, WGB G.15: Dani Kaufman (Leipzig), "Generalised block decompositions of Lie groups and positivity"

Nov. 18, WGB G.15: Joshua Maglione (UofG), "Average Ehrhart coefficients and symplectic Hecke eigenbases"

Nov. 25, WGB G.15: Jeremy Lovejoy (Paris)