Talks

  • Upcoming: Talk at the geometry seminar of the  Courant Institute, New York University, April 13, 2009.
  • Upcoming: Mathematical Society of Japan Seasonal Institute 2009 on Arrangements of Hyperplanes.
    Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, August 1-13, 2009
  • Upcoming: Configuration Spaces in Pisa 2010. Centro De Giorgi, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, May-June 2010.

  • Talk at  Universität Bremen, Mathematisches Kolloquium, January 6., 2009
  • Talk at the Topology seminar, Cornell university, Ithaca, NY, October 28, 2008.
  • Talk at the conference in honor of Peter Orlik.
    Fields Institute, Toronto, CA, August 19.-23., 2008.
    Title: On the combinatorics of minimal complexes for complexified arrangements. (slides)
  • Workshop Computational Algebraic Topology.
    Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany, June 29 - July 4, 2008.
  • Invited talk at the Spring Southeastern Meeting of the A. M. S.
    Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. March 28-30, 2008.
    Title: Discrete Morse theory for complexified arrangements. (slides)
  • Seminar Talk, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA. November 19, 2007.
    Title: Hyperplane arrangements ‘cut to the bone’. (slides)
  • Seminar Talk, The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA.
    Title: When Mr. Artin leaves. (slides)
  • Seminar Talk, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA. September 28, 2007.
    Title: The K(π,1)-problem for arrangements of Hyperplanes. (slides)
  • Talk at the conference Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC) 2007.
    Nankai University, Tjanjin, China, July 2-6, 2007.
    Title: Nested set complexes of Dowling lattices and complexes of Dowling trees. (slides)
  • CIMPA Summer school on arrangements and local systems.
    Galatasaray university, Istanbul, Turkey. June 11-22, 2007.
  • Talk at the conference Combinatorial and Computational Algebraic Topology,
    a “Minisymposium” of the annual meeting of the German Mathematical Society.
    Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. March 26-30, 2007.
  • Talk at the 58th Séminaire lotharingien de combinatoire.
    Domaine des Hautannes, Saint Germain au Mont d’Or, Lyon, France. March 19-21, 2007.
    Title: Combinatorial remarks on a classical theorem of Deligne.
  • Talk at the workshop Recent developments in arrangements and configuration spaces.
    Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA. August 7-11, 2006.
    Title: “A note on Deligne’s proof and the strong lattice property”. (video!)
  • Talk at the Institute for Operations Research.
    ETH Zurich, Switzerland. March 2, 2006.
    Title: “Bounding instability of motion planning algorithms - an application of algebraic topology.”
  • Talk at the mathematics department.
    University of Pisa, Italy. February 21, 2006.
    Title: “The K(π, 1)-problem for hyperplane arrangements.”
  • Talk at the Séminaire doctorants.
    IRMA, University of Strasbourg, France. February 9, 2006.
    Title: “Le problème du K(π, 1) pour les arrangements d’hyperplans”.
  • Talk at the Oberseminar Geometrie.
    University of Stuttgart, Germany. January 11, 2006.
    Title: “Das K(π, 1)-Problem für Arrangements von Hyperebenen”.
  • Euroconference Algebraic and geometric combinatorics.
    Anogia, Crete, Greece. August 20-26, 2005.
  • Talk at the conference Arrangements of Hyperplanes - Algebra, Combinatorics, Geometry and Topology.
    Centro Stefano Franscini, Ascona, Switzerland. May 15-20, 2005.
    Title: “Subdivision of complexes of k-trees”.
  • Conference Trends in Topological Combinatorics.
    KTH Stockholm, Sweden. February 14-16, 2005.
  • Visitor at the special semester on arrangement theory.
    MSRI, Berkeley, CA, USA. August-September 2004.
  • Talk at Geometry, Topology, and Combinatorics,
    a Satellite Conference of the 4th European Congress of Mathematics
    KTH Stockholm, Sweden July 3-6, 2004.
    Title: “Diagram models for the covers of the Salvetti complex”.
  • Talk at the workshop Arrangements and combinatorial stratifications.
    Centro E. De Giorgi, Pisa, Italy March 22-24, 2004.
    Title: “Diagram models for the covers of the Salvetti complex”.
  • Talk at the special session on Geometry and Combinatorics.
    AMS National Meeting, Phoenix, AZ. January 07-10, 2004.
    Title: “Diagram models for the covers of the Salvetti complex”.
  • Workshop on arrangement theory.
    Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ, USA. January 03-06, 2004.
  • Miniworkshop Combinatorial stratifications in algebra and topology.
    Mathematisches Institut Oberwolfach, Oberwolfach, Germany. November 02-08, 2003.