Research seminars

Seminare und Vorträge im WS 2025/2026

DateLecturerSeminarThemeTimeLocation
20 Jan 2026
Joseph Winspeare
(Université Grenoble Alpes)
Oberseminar
Cologne Algebra Seminar
The 1-periodic derived category of a gentle algebra

Abstract: Combining results from Keller and Buchweitz, we describe the 1-periodic derived category of a finite dimensional algebra of finite global dimension as the stable category of maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules over some Gorenstein algebra. In the case of gentle algebras, using the geometric model introduced by Opper, Plamondon and Schroll, we describe indecomposable objects in this category using homotopy classes of curves on a surface. In particular, we associate a family of indecompoable objects to each primitive closed curve. I will then discuss the dependence of this category on the marked graded surface associated to A.
Tuesday, 3pm (CEST) in personStefan-Cohn-Vossen-Raum
Mathematik (Raum 313)
27 Jan 2026Ricardo Canesin (Université Paris Cité) Oberseminar
Cologne Algebra Seminar
Graded quiver varieties and categories of split filtrations

Abstract: Nakajima quiver varieties can be used to give geometric realizations of modules over quantum affine algebras. In the graded case, Keller and Scherotzke gave an algebraic description of these varieties in terms of modules over the singular Nakajima category S and showed that their stratification is governed by the derived category of a Dynkin quiver. In this talk, we explain how this picture extends to Nakajima’s n-fold tensor product varieties, which allow one to geometrically realize n-fold tensor products of standard modules. We do this by introducing a category of filtrations of S-modules with a splitting, whose objects are parametrized by the tensor product varieties. We show that this category is equivalent to the module category of another category S^n, and we describe the category of Gorenstein projective S^n-modules via derived categories.
Tuesday, 2pm (CEST) in personStefan-Cohn-Vossen-Raum
Mathematik (Raum 313)
28 Jan 2026Álvaro Sánchez (Universidad de Murcia, Spain) Abstract representation theory of quivers and spectral Picard groups

Abstract. While the (derived) representation theory of quivers over a field is by now well-understood, much less is known when moving to coefficients in the integers or an arbitrary commutative ring. In this talk, we take a rather radical but well-founded approach: it has recently been observed that certain well-known symmetries of categories of representations (tilting results) are actually mere consequences of the stability of the coefficients involved, and so they exist in a much broader generality, often for the corresponding representations in any stable homotopy theory — this includes arbitrary rings, schemes, dg algebras, or ring spectra. For a finite acyclic quiver Q, we present here a method for producing universal autoequivalences of representations C^Q in any stable ∞-category C, which are the elements of the spectral Picard group of Q. This is based on an abstract equivalence of C^Q with a certain mesh ∞-category of representations of the Auslander–Reiten quiver Γ_Q. Then our universal equivalences arise from symmetries of Γ_Q, and thus yield abstract versions of key functors in classical representation theory — e.g. the Auslander-Reiten translation, the Serre functor, etc. Moreover, for representations of trees this allows us to realize the whole derived Picard group over a field as a factor of the spectral Picard group.
Wednesday, 2pm–3pm
Time Zone Berlin, Rome, Paris
03 Feb 2026Juan Omar Gómez Rodríguez
(Universität Bielefeld)
Conservativity via purity in tensor triangulated categories

Abstract: Given a family of coproduct-preserving tensor-triangulated (tt) functors between rigidly-compactly generated tt-categories, it is natural to ask when they are jointly conservative. Such joint conservativity is the minimal requirement for attempting to descend tt-geometric information along the family. In this talk, I will present a criterion for determining when a family of geometric functors is jointly conservative through the lens of purity in compactly generated triangulated categories, highlighting its homological flavor. We introduce the notion of pure descendability and we apply it to two particular situations involving sequential limits of ring spectra. The talk is based on joint work with Natalia Castellana.
Tuesday, 2pm (CEST) in person Stefan-Cohn-Vossen-Raum
Mathematik (Raum 313)
25 Feb 2026Tristan Bozec
(Université Angers, France)
Wednesday, 2pm–3pm
Time Zone Berlin, Rome, Paris