Centre for Mathematics, University of Coimbra

Events

Perspectives in Representation Theory
2024-07-01

Representation theory has a rich and colourful history. From a classic viewpoint, representation theory is the study of abstract algebraic structures, such as groups, rings, algebras (associative or not), by the action of their elements on a more familiar structure, such as an abelian group...

38th Summer Conference on Topology and its Applications
2024-07-08

This is the 38th conference in the series Summer Conferences on Topology and its Applications (SUMTOPO). Earlier installments of this conference have been organized in Youngstown, Ohio (2023), Vienna, Austria (2022), Johannesburg, South Africa (2019), Bowling Green, Kentucky (2018),...

XXXII International Fall Workshop on Geometry and Physics
2024-09-02

We are happy to announce the 32nd edition of the International Fall Workshop on Geometry and Physics in Coimbra, 2-5 September 2024! The Fall Workshops on Geometry and Physics have been held yearly since 1992, and bring together Spanish and Portuguese geometers and physicists, along with an...

Curved-Space Billiards - a talk by Jeffrey Weeks
2024-10-23

Mathematician Jeffrey Weeks to Speak at CMUC, Sala Pedro Nunes,14:30 Abstract:After a brief introduction to non-Euclidean 2D geometry using fleece surfaces ( = tecido polar), volunteers will put on a VR headset to try their hand at billiards in 3D spherical, Euclidean and hyperbolic...