Past talks


Academic year 2024/2025


DateSpeaker (affiliation)Title (with a link to the slides, whenever available)
October 9th, 2024Thomas Strobl (ICJ, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)From Gauge Theories to the octonionic Lie groupoid
October 16th, 2024Calin I. Lazaroiu (IFIN-HH, București & UNED, Madrid)Consistency conditions and fiducial 2-field models for SRRT inflation
October 23rd, 2024Alexander Schmeding (NTNU, Trondheim) Linking infinite-dimensional and higher differential geometry
October 30th, 2024Konrad Waldorf (Universität Greifswald)Buscher rules in general topology
November 6th, 2024Mikołaj Rotkiewicz (MIMUW, Warsaw)Exploring the structure of higher algebroids
November 13th, 2024No seminar on this date.
November 20th, 2024Participation in an online lecture by Alain Connes (Collège de France & IHES, Paris) at IM PASFrom class field theory to ζ spectral triples
November 27th, 2024Marian Aprodu (IMAR, București)Resonance and vector bundles
December 4th, 2024Carlos Shahbazi (UNED, Madrid)A class of differential-geometric problems in supergravity
December 11th, 2024No seminar on this date.
December 18th, 2024Anton Alekseev (Université de Genève)Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity, Teichmüller spaces, and Virasoro algebra
January 8th, 2025Ingo Runkel (Universität Hamburg)Topological symmetries and their gaugings in 2dCFT and 3dTFT
January 15th, 2025No seminar on this date.
January 22nd, 2025Peter Kristel (Universität Greifswald)An Eclectic Excursion into 2-Categorical Geometry
February 26th, 2025No seminar on this date.
March 5th, 2025Katarzyna Grabowska (KMMF WFUW)Dirac algebroids in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamics – theory and examples
March 12th, 2025Asier López-Gordón (IM PAN)Homogeneous symplectic manifolds and integrable contact systems
March 19th, 2025Leonid Ryvkin (ICJ, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)Introduction to singular foliations
March 26th, 2025Witold Respondek (INSA Rouen Normandie) Linearization of mechanical control systems
April 2nd, 2025Bartosz Prech (FUW)Symplectic approach to contact integrators
April 9th, 2025Arthemy V. Kiselev (BIM,
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
The differential graded Lie algebra of undirected graphs
April 16th, 2025Tilmann Wurzbacher (IECL Metz)Geometric prequantisation: from symplectic to two-plectic manifolds
April 23rd, 2025Rafał R. Suszek (KMMF WFUW)(Natural Constructions with) Principaloid Bundles
April 30th, 2025Casey A. Blacker (Augusta University)Geometric and algebraic reduction of multisymplectic manifolds
May 7th, 2025No seminar on this date.
May 14th, 2025Calin I. Lazaroiu (IFIN-HH, București & UNED, Madrid)Dynamical consistency conditions for strong rapid turn inflation
May 21st, 2025Nils Carqueville (Universität Wien)Higher structures in topological quantum field theory
May 28th, 2025Łukasz Rudnicki (Uniwersytet Gdański)Basically all linear second order ordinary differential equations can be “solved” by geodesic curves in two dimensional hyperbolic geometry
June 4th, 2025
June 11th, 2025



Academic year 2023/2024


DateSpeaker (affiliation)Title (with a link to the slides, whenever available)
June 19th, 2024Cornelia Vizman (Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara)Universal extensions of Lie algebras of Hamiltonian/divergence free vector fields
June 12th, 2024Wojciech Kamiński (IFT WFUW)Conformal Einstein’s Equations
June 5th, 2024Eugen Cioroianu (Universitatea din Craiova)Jacobi-like structures: A line-bundle perspective
May 29th, 2024Oleksii Kotov (Univerzita Hradec Králové)Introduction to Z-graded manifolds
May 22nd, 2024Maciej Dunajski (University of Cambridge)Quasi-Einstein metrics
May 15th, 2024Calin I. Lazaroiu (IFIN-HH & UNED)Weakly Abelian gauge theories
May 8th, 2024Javier de Lucas Araujo (KMMF WFUW)The local classification of finite-dimensional Lie algebras of analytic Hamiltonian vector fields on the plane
May 1st, 2024Ø (holiday)Ø
April 24th, 2024Daniel Beltiţă (IMAR)Lie group representations and standard subspaces of Hilbert spaces
April 17th, 2024Rafał R. Suszek (KMMF WFUW)1001 Tricks with Character(s)
– A Case for Simplicial Mechanics stitched by Categorified Correspondences
April 10th, 2024Stefan Carstea (IFIN-HH)Discrete integrable dynamical systems:
geometry of invariants and symmetries
March 27th, 2024Katarzyna Grabowska (KMMF WFUW)Algebroids – a playground for geometric mechanics
March 20th, 2024Janusz Grabowski (IMPAN)Homogeneity and formalisms of mechanics
March 13th, 2024Radu Purice (IMAR)Some results in the spectral analysis of quantum Hamiltonians with magnetic fields
March 6th, 2024Vasile Brînzănescu (IMAR)Algebraic Geometry at IMAR: past and present research