News

U. Haifa Topology & Geometry seminar: Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 13:00. Speaker: Emmanuel Farjoun (Hebrew University). Title: “Impossible functors, impossible natural transformations”.

Let us start with two very believable observations: 1. The only functors from the category of all sets to that of finite sets are the constant ones.2. Groups have no natural abelian subgroups.We raise questions about infinite categorical and space…
Read more

Colloquium: June 23, 2026 (14:00, room 614). Speaker: Michael Brandenbursky (Ben Gurion). Title: “Lp-metrics on diffeomorphism groups: old and new results”.

Invariant metrics appear in most branches of mathematics. Examples include word metrics (entropy, fragmentation) and non-discrete metrics (Hofer norm and Lp) in symplectic, differential geometries and dynamics. In group theory examples include commutator length and primitive length. After providing some…
Read more

Accessibility