CXO School is a practitioner-led eight-session pilot for any researcher wondering what their work could lead to, whether that's a spinout, a founding-team role, or a stronger grant or fellowship application. No 'idea' or business background needed.
Wednesdays 1.30–2.30 p.m. from 7 October, Kavli Oxford (South Parks Road). Open to postgraduates, DPhils, researchers and staff. Registration closes 12 p.m., Monday 5 October.
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We are currently inviting applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work with Professor Terry Lyons at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. These are two-year, fixed-term positions, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The starting date of these positions is flexible.
Calibrated fibrations are expected to play an important role in exceptional holonomy, much as special Lagrangian fibrations do in the SYZ picture for Calabi--Yau manifolds. Singular fibres are expected to be essential, and a natural question is whether they are forced by the geometry. In his PhD thesis, Baraglia showed that coassociative fibrations of compact full-holonomy G_2-manifolds must have singular fibres. The analogous problem for Cayley fibrations remained open for many years and turns out to be substantially more difficult, with its resolution relying on deep results from 4-manifold topology.
The proof takes some unexpected twists and turns, involving a Diophantine equation arising from the Spin(7)-structure, families Seiberg--Witten theory and parametrized homotopy theory. After a short crash course on Spin(7) geometry, I will explain how these pieces fit together. This is joint work with Jianfeng Lin and Viktor Majewski.