Past Seminars and Workshops (2012 - 2013)

• Conference on Complex Geometry on June 25-28, 2013
• Conference on Number Theory on April 5, 2013
• Mini-Workshop on Complex Geometry on January 10, 2013
• Algebraic Groups and Representation Theory - Conference in Memory of Tonny A. Springer on January 4-9, 2013
• Workshop on Geometry and Mathematical Physics on November 30 - December 1, 2012
• Conference on Number Theory on November 29, 2012

• On Brent-Salamin Algorithm for π by Professor Heng Huat Chan
• Hyperbolicity problems in several complex variables by Professor Yum-Tong Siu
• G₂ and the Rolling Ball by Dr. John Huerta
• Towards perturbative topological field theory on manifolds with boundary by Dr. Pavel Mnev
• From harmonic analysis to several complex variables by Dr. Po Lam Yung
• A characterisation of cusp forms by means of the growth of their Fourier coefficients by Professor Winfried Kohnen
• Infinite gammoids by Dr. Hiu Fai Law
• Locally harmonic Maass forms by Dr. Benjamin Kane
• Complex geometry of symplectic 4-manifolds by Dr. Weiyi Zhang
• On Calabi-Yau Threefolds by Dr. Zheng Hua
• Conformal invariants: perspectives from geometric PDE by Professor Sun-Yung Alice Chang
• Comparison results for Ricci curvature by Professor Guofang Wei
• On some problems in finite geometry by Dr. Philip P.W. Wong
• Noether-Lefschetz theory for hypersurfaces in toric 3-folds by Professor Ugo Bruzzo
• A Generalization of Menger's Theorem by Dr. Guangyue Han
• Connections depending on small parameter by Professor Maxim Kontsevich

• Using the Schottky-Klein prime function to solve free boundary problems in multiply connected domains by Dr. Christopher C. Green
• Canonical maps of surfaces defined by Abelian covers by Dr. Yun Gao
• The Index Theorem for Quasi-Tori by Dr. Mario Tsz On Chan
• Parabolic-like mappings by Dr. Luna Lomonaco
• Introducing Moduli Spaces of Complete Quotients by Professor Yi Hu
• Construction of Lie groupoids and Poisson groupoids by Mr. Songhao Li
• Groupoid approach to Riemann-Hilbert correspondence by Mr. Songhao Li
• Small Deformations of Banach Algebras by Professor Krzysztof Jarosz
• Lê cycles and Milnor classes by Professor José Seade
• Extremal effective divisors on the moduli space of curves by Professor Dawei Chen
• Classification of quantum groups and Belavin — Drinfeld cohomologies by Professor Alexander Stolin
• The geometry underlying Donaldson-Thomas theory by Professor Kai Kehrend
• CR Geometry in 3-D by Professor Paul Yang
• Weyl Quantization and Courant algebroids by Professor Ping Xu
• Sheets of conjugacy classes by Professor Giovanna Carnovale
• The fundamental group schemes and some open questions by Professor Vikram Mehta
• Representation theory of KLR algebras by Professor Peter McNamara
• G₂ manifolds and G₂ conifolds by Professor Spiro Karigiannis
• Conformal Invariance of the Exploration Path in 2-D Critical Bond Percolation in the Square Lattice by Dr. Jonathan Tsai
• On the unification of characteristic classes and a little blowup calculus by Dr. James Fullwood
• The “Hole Story”: how to solve problems in multiply connected domains by Professor Darren Crowdy
• Finite abelian covers and ball quotient surfaces by Dr. Yun Gao
• On the abelian automorphism groups of d-gonal Riemann surfaces by Professor Shengli Tan

• Approaches to Some Open Problems in Several Complex Variables by Professor Yum-Tong Siu
• Mini Course - Division algebras, supersymmetry, and higher gauge theory by Dr. John Huerta
• Discrete groups acting on complex projective spaces by Professor José Seade
• Quantization and Reduction by Dr. William Kirwin
• Singularities and adjoint linear systems by Professor Lawrence Ein

• The conjectures of André-Oort and Zilbert-Pink by Professor G. Wüstholz
• Lectures on Intermediate Complex Analysis by Professor Ngaiming Mok
• Lectures on Topics in Geometry by Dr. Siye Wu

• Complex Geometry
  • Introduction to Hyperbolicity in Complex Geometry by Professor Sai-Kee Yeung
  • Holomorphic isometries with respect to the Bergman metric by Dr. Sui-Chung Ng
  • An Introduction to Abelian Varieties II: Theta Functions by Mr. Xiaoyu Yang
  • An introduction to Abelian varieties by Mr. Xiaoyu Yang
  • On characteristic classes for singular varieties by Dr. James Fullwood
  • Varieties of Minimal Rational Tangents (Lecture 1 - 4) by Professor Ngaiming Mok
  • On generalized complex geometry (Lecture 1 & 2) by Dr. James Fullwood
  • The cone of curves of projective varieties by Dr. Rong Du
  • Mori's existence theorem on rational curves by Dr. Fei Ye
  • Deformation of closed subschemes by Mr. Kwok-Kin Wong
  • Hirzebruch's construction of ball quotient surfaces by Dr. Fei Ye
  • On Picard-Deligne-Mostow Surfaces by Professor Sai-Kee Yeung
• Probability and Information Theory Seminar
  • An Introduction to Extortionate Strategy of Symmetric Games by Mr. Keren Shen
  • Cyclic linking network by Professor Chung Chan
  • Generalized Cut-Set Bounds for Broadcast Networks by Professor Tie Liu
  • Clark-Ocone formula by Dr. Jian Song
  • Bayesian Approach for Approximate Tandem Repeats Detection by Professor Xiaodan Fan
  • Three Coding Problems by Mr. Guo Qian
  • Markov random fields in dimension 1 and higher by Mr. Nishant Chandgotia
  • Malliavin calculus and Fractional Brownian motion by Dr. Jian Song
• Compartmentalisation of information in biology by Professor Antoine Danchin
• Information Theory Seminar
  • Introduction to Non-asymptotic Equipartition Property by Mr. Li Xu
  • Concavity of Mutual Information Rate for Finite-State Channel by Mr. Yonglong Li
  • A brief introduction to Lévy processes and stochastic calculus (continued) by Dr. Xianming Liu
  • A brief introduction to Lévy processes and stochastic calculus by Dr. Xianming Liu
  • A Graph Theoretical Approach to Network Encoding Complexity by Mr. Li Xu
  • Limit Theorems in Hidden Markov Models by Dr. Guangyue Han
• Weekly Seminar in Finite Geometry

• April 6, 2013 (at HKU)
• December 1, 2012 (at HKU)
• October 6, 2012 (at HKUST)

Email: imr@maths.hku.hk