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Geometry Seminar
This is the research seminar of the group and focuses
on recent research in (differential) geometry;
during the semester the seminar is usually scheduled
to take place on Thursday at 15:00 in the
Zeichensaal 1.
If you are interested in giving a talk, please contact
the organizers:
Ivan Izmestiev.
Student Seminars
These seminars are usually part of the assessment
and are open to the public,
in particular, to interested students;
topics typically focus on geometry but cover a wider range
of areas, depending on the students' and the advisor's
interests.
Presentations are often delivered in German.
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This semester's schedule |
Talks in the geometry seminar
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- 27 Jun 2024: Geometry seminar
- Ilya Kossovskiy (Masaryk University in Brno and TU Wien):
TBA
- 20 Jun 2024: Geometry seminar
- Denis Polly (TU Wien):
TBA
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- 13 Jun 2024: Geometry seminar
- Fabian Achammer (TU Wien):
TBA
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- 06 Jun 2024: Geometry seminar
- Kiumars Sharifmoghaddam (TU Wien):
TBA
Abstract
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- 23 May 2024: Geometry seminar
- Georg Nawratil (TU Wien):
TBA
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- 16 May 2024: Geometry seminar
- Martina Iannella (TU Wien): TBA
- 02 May 2024: Geometry seminar
- Niklas Affolter (TU Wien):
TBA
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- 25 Apr 2024: Geometry seminar
- Alessandro Andretta (University of Turin):
The Banach-Tarski paradox
Abstract
One of the most surprising results of modern mathematics is the
following result proved by Hausdorff, Banach and Tarski:
the unit ball of the euclidean space can be partitioned in a
finite number of pieces so that these can be rearranged, using
rigid motions so to form two balls identical to the original.
The proof is non-constructive, relying on the Axiom of Choice,
and the pieces of the decomposition are inconceivably sharp and
edgy!
Geometry plays a substantial role, as the core of the proof is
based on the existence of a free subgroup of the group of
rotations.
(A similar result cannot be proved for the plane, i.e. it is not
possible to duplicate a disk.)
In this talk I will sketch the proof of the Banach-Tarski
paradox, and survey many related results that have been proved
in the following years.
18 Apr 2024: Geometry seminar
- Ivan Izmestiev (TU Wien): Cayley-Bacharach theorem and sums of squares
Abstract
The Cayley-Bacharach theorem (first proved by Chasles) says that
if two cubics meet at nine points, then any other cubic passing
through eight of these nine points also passes through the
ninth. This theorem includes as special cases the Pappus and the
Pascal theorems.
The sums of squares problem was posed by Hilbert: can every
positive definite homogeneous polynomial of degree $2d$ in n
variables be represented as a sum of squares of polynomials of
degree $d$? While the answer is positive for $d=1$ and n arbitrary
as well as for d arbitrary and $n=2$, Hilbert has proved the
negative for $d=3$ and $n=3$. And a crucial point in his proof was
the Cayley-Bacharach theorem.
This talks is based on the articles by Eisenbud-Green-Harris and
Blekherman.
- 21 Mar 2024: Geometry seminar
- Gudrun Szewieczek (TU Munich):
Discrete isothermic nets with a family of spherical parameter lines from holomorphic maps
Abstract
Smooth surfaces with a family of planar or spherical curvature
lines are an active area of research, driven by both purely
differential geometric aspects and practical applications such
as architectural design. In integrable geometry it is a natural
question to ask which of these surfaces admit a conformal
curvature line parametrization and are therefore isothermic
surfaces.
It is an open problem to explicitly describe all those smooth
isothermic surfaces. However, over time, prominent examples were
found in this rich integrable surface class: above all Wente's
torus. More recently, further specific examples have led to the
discovery of compact Bonnet pairs and to free boundary solutions
for minimal and CMC-surfaces.
This talk covers a discrete version of the problem: we shall
generate all discrete isothermic nets with a family of spherical
curvature lines from special discrete holomorphic maps via the
concept of "lifted-folding".
In particular, we point out how this novel approach leads to
quasi-periodic solutions and to topological tori with
symmetries.
This is joint work with Tim Hoffmann.
- 14 Mar 2024: Geometry seminar (Sem.R. DB gelb 03)
- David Sykes (TU Wien):
CR Hypersurface Geometry, an Introduction
Abstract
CR geometry concerns structures on real submanifolds in complex
spaces that are preserved under biholomorphisms. This talk will
present a light introduction to CR geometry of real
hypersurfaces. We will survey some of the area's major
classical results, namely solutions to local equivalence
problems of E Cartan, Tanaka, and Chern-Moser and their
applications. And we will preview some of the area's current-day
research trends related to Levi degenerate structures.
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Winter term 2023/24 |
Talks in the geometry seminar
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- 29 Nov 2023: Geometry seminar 16:15
- Martin Kilian (TU Wien): Meshes with Spherical Faces
Abstract
A truly Möbius invariant discrete surface theory must consider
meshes where the transformation group acts on all of its
elements, including edges and faces. We therefore systematically
describe so called sphere meshes with spherical faces and
circular arcs as edges. Driven by aspects important for
manufacturing, we provide the means to cluster spherical panels
by their radii. We investigate the generation of sphere meshes
which allow for a geometric support structure and characterize
all such meshes with triangular combinatorics in terms of
non-Euclidean geometries. We generate sphere meshes with
hexagonal combinatorics by intersecting tangential spheres of a
reference surface and let them evolve - guided by the surface
curvature - to visually convex hexagons, even in negatively
curved areas. Furthermore, we extend meshes with circular faces
of all combinatorics to sphere meshes by filling its circles
with suitable spherical caps and provide a re-meshing scheme to
obtain quadrilateral sphere meshes with support structure from
given sphere congruences. By broadening polyhedral meshes to
sphere meshes we exploit the additional degrees of freedom to
minimize intersection angles of neighboring spheres enabling the
use of spherical panels that provide a softer perception of the
overall surface.
- 22 Nov 2023: Geometry seminar
- Felix Dellinger (TU Wien): Orthogonal structures
Abstract
In this talk we introduce a definition for orthogonal
quadrilateral
nets based on equal diagonal length in every quad. This
definition can
be motivated through Ivory's Theorem and rhombic bi-nets. We
find that
non-trivial orthogonal multi-nets exist, i.e., nets where the
orthogonality condition holds for every combinatorial rectangle
and
present a method to construct them.
The orthogonality condition is well suited for numerical
optimization.
Since the definition does not depend on planar quadrilaterals it
can
be paired with common discretizations of conjugate nets,
asymptotic
nets, geodesic nets, Chebyshev nets or principal symmetric nets.
This
gives a way to numerically compute prinicipal nets, minimal
surfaces,
developable surfaces and cmc-surfaces.
- 11 Oct 2023: Geometry seminar
- Sadashige Ishida (IST Austria): Area formula for spherical polygons via prequantization
Abstract
I derive a formula for the signed area of a spherical polygon
via the
so-called prequantization. In contrast to the traditional
formula based on
the Gauss-Bonnet theorem that requires measuring angles, the
new formula
mimics Green's theorem and is applicable to a wider range of
degenerate
spherical curves and polygons. I also explain that the classical
formula can
be recovered from a specific choice of prequantum bundle and
lift.
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Summer term 2023 |
Talks in the geometry seminar
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- 31 May 2023: Geometry seminar
- Gunter Weiss (TU Wien & TU Dresden):
Der Satz von Miquel und seine Brüder
Abstract
Der elementargeometrische Satz von Miquel geht von einem Dreieck
$ABC$ und Punkten $R, S, T$ auf dessen Seiten aus und behauptet,
dass die drei Kreise $\bigcirc ART$, $\bigcirc BRS$, $\bigcirc CST$ einen Punkt, den
"Miquel-Punkt" $M$, gemeinsam haben. Für $M$ hat man die
Dreiecksebene, also eine zweiparametrige Menge, von
Möglichkeiten, sodass es zu jedem $M$ eine einparametrige Menge
von Tripeln $R, S, T$ geben muss. Wählt man $R, S, T$ speziell
und/oder voneinander abhängig, so ergeben sich das
"Bierdeckel-Theorem", die Sätze von Brocard und
Simson-Wallace als Spezialfälle des Satzes von Miquel. Dabei
ergeben sich auch überraschende "merkwürdige Inzidenzen"
und Zusammenhänge mit anderen elementar-geometrischen Sätzen.
Der Satz von Miquel erlaubt auch eine direkte
3D-Verallgemeinerung, während etwa die Satzgruppe von Brocard
nur mit Modifikationen ins Dreidimensionale übertragbar ist.
- 03 May 2023: Geometry seminar
- Mohammad Ivaki (TU Wien):
Firey's worn stones are round
Abstract
I will talk about the Gauss curvature flow, which in $R^3$ was
proposed by Firey as a model for the changing shape of smooth,
strictly convex stones as they tumble on a beach. I'll give a
summary of the results on this flow from its inception to its
complete resolution.
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Winter term 2022/23
Hans Havlicek with participants, 9 Dec 2022
photograph © Gunter Weiß
Hellmuth Stachel, 18 Nov 2022
photograph © Georg Glaeser
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Festkolloquia
- 09 Dez 2022, Zeichensaal 3: Festkolloquium
- zum 70. Geburtstag von Hans Havlicek
Programm
- 13:30 - 14:30
- Silvia Pianta (Universita Cattolica del Sacre Cuore, Brescia):
1984, and beyond ... through joint Hanswers around parallelisms
- 14:30 - 15:30
- Markus Stroppel (Universität Stuttgart):
Projective geometry in an algebraist's toolbox
- 15:30 - 16:00
- Kaffeepause
- 16:00 - 17:00
- Mark Pankov (University Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn):
One result of Hans and a non-bijective version of Wigner theorem
- 17:00 - 18:00
- Corrado Zanella (Universita di Padova):
Incidence properties of algebraic varieties
- 18 Nov 2022, Zeichensaal 3: Festkolloquium
- zum 80. Geburtstag von Hellmuth Stachel
Programm
- 13:15 - 14:00
- Eröffnung und Laudatio von Otto Röschel
- 14:00 - 15:00
- Johannes Wallner (TU Graz):
Flexible nets and discrete differential geometry
- 15:00 - 16:00
- Georg Glaeser (Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien):
Forty years between descriptive and computational geometry:
the universe of spatial imagination
- 16:00 - 16:30
- Kaffeepause
- 16:30 - 17:30
- Hans-Peter Schröcker (Universität Innsbruck):
Devil in paradise II - recent results in motion factorization
- 17:30 - 18:30
- Giorgio Figliolini (Universität Cassino):
Kinematics of mechanisms with higher-pairs:
fundamentals and applications
- 19:00
- Abendessen im Restaurant Waldviertlerhof,
Schönbrunnerstr. 20, 1050 Wien
Talks in the geometry seminar
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- 21 Feb 2023: Geometry seminar 15:00, ZS1
- Alex Fairley (TU Berlin): Circular nets with spherical parameter lines
Abstract
In the context of discrete differential geometry, circular nets
provide a discretisation of curvature line parametrisations. In
this talk, we will present incidence theorems to construct
circular nets with spherical parameter lines. And we will
present geometric properties of circular nets with spherical
parameter lines. We will compare them with the classical
properties of surfaces with spherical curvature lines. These are
classical surfaces that were intensely studied in the 19th
century.
- 23 Jan 2023: Geometry seminar
- Sergey Agafonov (Sao Paulo State University):
Confocal conics and 4-webs of maximal rank
Abstract
Confocal conics form an orthogonal net. Supplementing this net
with one of the following: 1) the net of Cartesian coordinate
lines aligned along the principal axes of conics, 2) the net of
Apollonian pencils of circles whose foci coincide with the foci
of conics, 3) the net of tangents to a conic of the confocal
family, we get a planar 4-web. We show that each of these 4-webs
is of maximal rank and characterize confocal conics from the web
theory viewpoint.
12 Dec 2022
16 Jan 2023: Geometry seminar
- Christian Müller (TU Wien):
The Geometry of Discrete AGAG-Webs in Isotropic 3-Space
Abstract
We investigate webs from the perspective of the geometry of webs
on surfaces in three dimensional space. Our study of AGAG-webs
is motivated by architectural applications of gridshell
structures where four families of manufactured curves on a
curved surface are realizations of asymptotic lines and geodesic
lines. We describe all discrete AGAG-webs in isotropic space and
propose a method to construct them. Furthermore, we prove that
some sub-nets of an AGAG-web are timelike minimal surfaces in
Minkowski space and can be embedded into a one-parameter family
of discrete isotropic Voss nets. This is a joint work with
Helmut Pottman.
- 09 Jan 2023: Geometry seminar
- Jan Gregorovic (TU Wien):
Invariants of curves in conformal manifolds
Abstract
I will talk about invariants that can be assigned to curves in
conformal manifolds of dimension greater than 2. An invariant is
a quantity depending only on the curve and the conformal class
of metrics and in particular, is invariant under all conformal
transformation. The construction of these invariants uses the
description of conformal manifolds via tractor bundles, which I
describe in detail. Using tractor fields instead of vector
fields along the curve allows to construct an analogy of the
Frenet frame and use it to define invariants.
- 28 Nov 2022: Geometry seminar
- Günter Rote (FU Berlin):
Grid peeling and the affine curve-shortening flow
Abstract
Grid Peeling is the process of taking the integer grid points
inside a convex region and repeatedly removing the convex hull
vertices.
It has been observed by Eppstein, Har-Peled, and Nivasch,
that, as the grid is refined, this process converges to
the Affine Curve-Shortening Flow (ACSF), which is defined
as a deformation of a smooth curve.
As part of the M.Ed. thesis of Moritz Rüber, we
have investigated the grid peeling process for special
parabolas, and we could observe some striking phenomena.
This has lead to a conjecture for the value of the constant
that relates the two processes.
- 14 Nov 2022: Geometry seminar
- Karoly Bezdek (University of Calgary):
Ball polyhedra -- old and new
Abstract
We survey a number of metric properties of intersections of
finitely many congruent balls called ball polyhedra in Euclidean
spaces. In particular, our talk is centered around the status of
the shortest billiard conjecture, the global rigidity
conjecture, Hadwiger???s covering conjecture, and the
Gromov-Klee-Wagon volumetric conjecture for ball polyhedra.
- 17 Oct 2022: Geometry seminar
- Group meeting
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