ETH informal seminar talks, Fall 2025 and Spring 2026

  1. Translation-invariant measures and shapes of random trees (Uri Kreitner)
  2. Random construction of hyperbolic surfaces and its applications in geometry (Yan Luo)
  3. Dimer tilings of Z^3 (Catherine Wolfram)
  4. Mixing time in the percolated hypercube (Sahar Diskin)
  5. A geometric approach to noise sensitivity for crossings (Ritvik Radhakrishnan)
  6. Critical percolation on big groups (Philip Easo)
  7. Some geometric aspects of Willmore surfaces (Dorian Martino)
  8. Brownian loop measure and determinants of Laplacian (Roman Lemonde)
  9. An introduction to the renormalized volume of convex co-compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds (Viola Giovannini)
  10. Which groups can act on the circle? (Segev Gonen Cohen)
  11. A quasisymmetric view on Cannon’s conjecture (Damaris Meier)
  12. Random simple loops on Riemann surfaces (Sid Maibach)
  13. Defining topological and geometric quantities in a low-regularity setting: an introduction (Antoine Detaille)
  14. Random simple loops on Riemann surfaces, part 2 (Sid Maibach)
  15. The subcritical region in Poisson boolean percolation with heavy tailed radius distribution (Laury Verhoeven)
  16. Nonsmooth spaces with Ricci curvature bounded from below (Camillo Brena)
  17. Introduction to the Gaussian free field and Liouville quantum gravity (Catherine Wolfram)
  18. Brownian motion on Riemannian manifolds and applications to the index theorem (Yan Luo)
  19. Spectral gap of random covers of hyperbolic surfaces (Roman Lemonde)
  20. Multiplicity of the Eigenvalues of the Laplacian on Graphs and Surfaces (Simon Machado)