The Seminar on Geometry was established in the second half of the 1980s at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade. In the mid-1990s, it began to meet at the Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA). The Seminar followed the dynamic development of the Chair of Geometry and was initiated by Prof. Dr. Neda Bokan and Prof. Dr. Novica Blažić.
The goal of the seminar Geometry and its Applications has always been closely tied to improving the quality of teaching geometry courses and promoting more intensive scientific research in geometry at universities in Serbia—particularly in differential geometry and its numerous applications.
Over the years, the Seminar has featured presentations of scientific papers by its members and numerous guests from Serbia and abroad, presentations of doctoral theses by younger colleagues prior to their defenses, as well as thematic lectures and advanced courses in various areas of geometry and its applications.
The Seminar has presented a wide range of topics in geometry and related disciplines: Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian geometry, the theory of submanifolds, left-invariant metrics on manifolds, Lie groups and algebras, holonomy groups, affine differential geometry, integrable systems, complex manifolds with additional structure, cosmological nonlocal models, Schwarzschild metrics, synthetic geometry, noncommutative geometry, p-adic and adelic quantum-mechanical systems and the applications of p-adic numbers in biological systems, quantum groups, topology, computational geometry, and visualization of geometric objects and their applications in education.
The work of the Seminar was closely linked with research projects of the Ministry of Science: Differential Geometry and Applications, 1992–2000, and Geometry, Education, and Visualization with Applications, 2000–2019. During the existence of the latter project, the Seminar bore its name. Professors Neda Bokan, Novica Blažić, Zoran Rakić, Mirjana Đorić, Stana Nikčević, Srđan Vukmirović, Miroslava Antić, and Ivan Dimitrijević led the Seminar.
For many years, the Seminar received significant support from Academician Mileva Prvanović and Professor Branko Dragović.
During this period, the members of the Seminar significantly advanced the level and organization of scientific meetings in the field of geometry and its applications. These events evolved from national-level meetings to internationally recognized conferences, notably the Workshop Contemporary Geometry and Related Topics (2002 and 2005) and the Geometrical Seminar series from 2012 onward (from the XVII GS in 2012 to the XXII GS in 2024).
Members of the Seminar have taken part in organizing international conferences and congresses both in Serbia and abroad, notably the series Mathematical Physics Meeting: School and Conference on Modern Mathematical Physics (2001–2024) — eleven conferences, and the series Conferences on Nonlinearity (2021, 2023, 2025).

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FORMER CHAIRS OF THE SEMINARS

Stana Nikčević

Miroslava Antić

Srđan Vukmirović

Mirjana Đorić