Prof.Dr.habil. Ilka Agricola

Slides and recorded talks

Here are the slides of a small selection of talks I gave in the past. In line with the new digital times, I also include recordings when available.

How to classify homogeneous spaces... and why we should care about them
Durham Geometry and Topology Seminar, June 2020. [pdf] [recording of live stream]

Generalizations of 3-Sasakian manifolds and skew torsion
Virtual seminar on geometry with symmetries, June 2020. [pdf]
[recording of live stream]

Doing mathematics in Emmy Noether's time: A survey on the study and work situation of women mathematicians in Germany between the two World Wars
Talk within the event "An afternoon with Emmy Noether" at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), April, 2019. [pdf]
[recording of live stream]

Krumme Sachen - warum musste Einstein Mathematik neu lernen?
Talk at the "Hochschultage Physik" in Marburg, February 2018; this event is organized once a year as continuing training for physics teachers, but it is also attended by bachelor students, alumni and further interested audience. [pdf]

The Collection of Mathematical Models of Marburg University
Talk in the Mathematisch-Physikalisches Kolloquium, Leibniz Universität Hannover, May 2017. [pdf]

Non-integrable geometries, torsion, and holonomy
Series of four 90'-lectures delivered at the Carnival Differential Geometry school, Torino, February 2014.
[talk 1] [talk 2 a] [talk 2 b] [talk 3] [talk 4]
In parallel, there was a series of talks by Thomas Friedrich, here are his slides [pdf]

Frauen in der Mathematik - in Marburg und anderswo
Hochschulerkundungstage, Januar 2012. [pdf]

Dirac-Operatoren und Geometrie
Inaugural lecture at Philipps University Marburg, July 1, 2009. [pdf]

On the history of the exceptional group G_2
Talk at Warsaw University (Woronowicz seminar), February 2008. [pdf]
For the whole story on G_2, see my articles in the DMV Mitteilungen,
the Notices of the AMS and the pictures of our mathematical excursion to Niesky.

The E_8 Challenge
Lecture for the BMS Friday Colloquium on December 14, 2007 [pdf]

Special geometries and superstring theory
Series of four lectures delivered at the 26th Srni Winter School
January 2006 - see also the detailed lecture notes
[talk I] [talk II] [talk III] [talk IV]

Questions and comments concerning this page should be addressed per e-mail to agricola@mathematik.uni-marburg.de,
Ilka Agricola, last update 21.04.2021.