Joint Seminar on Complex Algebraic Geometry and Complex Analysis
(Bochum - Essen - Köln - Wuppertal)

Photo by Max Greve and Timo Bobert

The Seminar

The "Joint Seminar on Complex Algebraic Geometry and Complex Analysis" is a research seminar, run by the algebraic and complex geometry research groups in Bochum, Essen, Cologne, and Wuppertal since 2013. The seminar meets roughly twice per semester for a full day at one of the participating departments. There are three talks per meeting, both by invited guests and by speakers from the organising universities. We aim to leave ample room for discussions.

The talks are open for everyone. Contact one of the organisers if you are interested in attending the meeting. We have some funds that might help to support travel for some junior participants.

Meetings of the seminar are partially supported by

• DFG-GRK 2553 "Symmetries and Classifying Spaces - analytic, arithmetic, and derived" (Essen)
• DFG-SFB/TR 191 "Symplectic structures in geometry, algebra and dynamics" (Bochum-Cologne-Heidelberg)

Next Meeting

DATE AND PLACE

The next meeting will take place on Friday, July 10th, 2026 at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB).

TALKS

• Christian Miebach (Calais): Some remarks on the Levi problem
  
  Abstract:
  We discuss some techniques that allow to solve the Levi problem in the presence of symmetries. As application, we complete the description of locally Stein domains in Hopf surfaces. This is joint work with S. Ivashkovych and V. Shevchishin.



• Alessandro Minuzzo (Parma): Rational Ellipticity and Hyperbolicity of manifolds with symmetry
  
  Abstract:
  We consider a closed, simply connected Riemannian manifold M with an isometric action of a compact Lie group G. We are interested in understanding when the rational homotopic behaviour of M is determined by the geometry of the orbit space M/G. If we assume that the action is variationally complete and under certain special conditions on the principal isotropies or on the principal orbits of the action (e.g. connected principal isotropies or simply connected principal orbits), we prove that M is rationally elliptic if and only if M/G is flat. One crucial step in the proof is to show the orientability of the so-called Bott-Samelson cycles associated with horizontal geodesics and, to the best of our knowledge, the above-mentioned special conditions on the action seem to be the broadest for which these cycles are orientable. This is a joint work with Prof. M. Radeschi and Prof. R. Mendes.



• Xing Xu (Cologne): The $H^2$-Corona problem on delta-regular domains
  
  Abstract:
  sing techniques from Hörmander’s 1965 Acta paper, we prove an $H^2$-Corona theorem on delta-regular domains. This class of domains includes smooth bounded domains with defining functions that are plurisubharmonic on boundaries and pseudoconvex domains of D’Angelo finite type.

SCHEDULE

10:30 - 11:30 Minuzzo

11:45 - 12:45 Xu

afterwards Lunch

14:30 - 15:30 Miebach

VENUE

Talks will take place in seminar room IC 03/410. A map showing the location of the building on the campus can be downloaded here.

Organisers

Stéphanie Cupit-Foutou
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
stephanie [dot] cupit [at] ruhr-uni-bochum [dot] de

Daniel Greb
Universität Duisburg-Essen
daniel [dot] greb [at] uni-due [dot] de

George Marinescu
Universität zu Köln
gmarines [at] math [dot] uni-koeln [dot] de

Jean Ruppenthal
Bergische Universität Wuppertal
jean [dot] ruppenthal [at] math [dot] uni-wuppertal [dot]de

Past Meetings

26.4.2013, Bochum: Tim Kirschner, Christian Miebach, Henrik Seppänen

28.6.2013, Wuppertal: Rafael Andrist, Immanuel Stampfli, Matei Toma

22.11.2013, Bochum: Sébastien Boucksom, Egmont Porten, Sönke Rollenske

24.1.2014, Wuppertal: Clemens Jörder, Helge Ruddat, Jörg Winkelmann

16.5.2014, Bochum: Alberto Abbondandolo, Judith Brinkschulte, Julius Ross

20.6.2014, Wuppertal: Julie Déserti, Slawomir Dinew, Slawomir Rams

24.10.2014, Bochum: Henri Guenancia, Shulim Kaliman, Adriano Tomassini

15.12.2014, Wuppertal: Richard Lärkäng, Christian Miebach, Marco Spinaci

7.5.2015, Essen: Brent Doran, Erwan Rousseau, Emanuel Scheidegger

15.6.2015, Bochum: Roya Beheshti, Daniel Greb, Hossein Raufi

27.11.2015, Wuppertal: Francesco Bei, Kai Cieliebak, Tyson Ritter

1.2.2016, Essen: Ursula Ludwig, George Marinescu, Wenhao Ou

25.4.2016, Wuppertal: Gian Maria Dall’Ara, Christian Lehn, Luca Tasin

26.6.2016, Cologne: Chin-Yu Hsiao, Stefan Nemirovski, Nikhil Savale

25.11.2016, Bochum: Ana-Maria Brecan, Antonio di Scala, Dan Popovici

27.1.2017, Essen: Tim Kirschner, Viêt Anh Nguyên, Stefan Schreieder

21.4.2017, Wuppertal: Vicente Cortés, Philipp Naumann, Markus Reineke

7.7.2017, Cologne: Roger Bielawski, Dan Coman, Martin Schwald

3.11.2017, Bochum: Junyan Cao, Sönke Rollenske, Robert Szöke

1.2.2018, Essen: Gilberto Bini, Ruadhaí Dervan, Hendrik Herrmann

27.4.2018, Wuppertal: Hugues Auvray, Bernd Stratmann, Michael Lennox Wong

6.7.2018, Cologne: Turgay Bayraktar, Jarek Buczynski, Andrew Dancer

23.11.2018, Bochum: Ben Anthes, Kevin Fritsch, Ariyan Javanpeykar

18.1.2019, Essen: André Belotto, Andreas Höring, Valdemar Tsanov

12.4.2019, Wuppertal: Ya Deng, Christian Miebach, Duc Viet Vu

5.7.2019, Cologne: Tien-Cuong Dinh, Xiaonan Ma, Nessim Sibony

21.11.2019, Bochum: Patrick Graf, Ulrike Rieß, Jonas Stelzig

16.1.2020, Essen: Anda Degeratu, Takeo Ohsawa, Mihai Paun

14.5.2020, Wuppertal (via ZOOM): Lynn Heller, Simone Marchesi, Jan Swoboda

16.7.2020, Cologne (via ZOOM): Shin-ichi Matsumura, Sönke Rollenske, Lars Martin Sektnan

17.11.2020, Bochum (via ZOOM): Rafael Andrist, Nicholas Buchdahl, Eleonora di Nezza

29.1.2021, Essen (via ZOOM): Robert Berman, Simone Diverio, Ilaria Mondello

7.5.2021, Wuppertal (via ZOOM): Siarhei Finski, Laszlo Lempert, Katharina Neusser

18.6.2021, Cologne (via ZOOM): Gordon Heier, Louis Ioos, Ursula Ludwig

26.11.2021, Bochum: Nikhil Savale, Martin Schwald, Jörg Winkelmann

11.03.2022, Essen: Narasimha Chary Bonala, Matteo Costantini, Josias Reppekus

27.05.2022, Münster: Markus Banagl, Francesco Bei, Nicolina Istrati

20.06.2022, Essen: Workshop organised by JS organisers

25.11.2022, Wuppertal: Masanori Adachi, Laurentiu Maxim, Sara Torelli

20.1.2023, Cologne: Fabrizio Bianchi, Tobias Harz, Susanna Zimmermann

28.4.2023, Bochum: Hans-Joachim Hein, Silvia Sabatini, Richard Wentworth; 10 year celebration

7.7.2023, Essen: Ravjot Kohli, Thomas Kurbach, Niklas Müller

27.10.2023, Münster: Stefan Nemirovski, Shu Shen, Carolina Tamborini

19.2.2024, Wuppertal: Bo Berndtsson, Ana Botero, Jörg Winkelmann

26.4.2024, Cologne: Cécile Gachet, Christian Lehn, Johannes Scheffler

12.7.2024, Bochum: Stéphanie Cupit-Foutou, Bingxiao Liu, Jörg Schürmann

6.12.2024, Essen: Michele Ancona, Siarhei Finski, Alice Garbagnati

25.2.2025, Essen: Judith Brinkschulte, Matteo Costantini

11.4.2025, Wuppertal: Jun-Muk Hwang, Takayuki Koike, Matilde Maccan

18.7.2025, Bochum: Workshop on Transformation Groups, organised by JS organisers

21.11.2025, Cologne: Max Jahnke, Roland Púček, Shengxuan Zhou

30.1.2026, Essen: Roger Bielawski, Victoria Hoskins, Claudio Llosa

8.5.2026, Wuppertal: Finn Bartsch, Bastien Philippe, Calla Tschanz