The seminar meets on Thursdays, at 9:00 AM in SCEN 322. Expository, educational and research talks are welcomed! Currently we have the following schedule. The titles link to abstracts. Other topology minded events are noted. For more information or questions contact Matt Clay.
| Date and Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1/11: 3:00 PM | Martin Tancer (Charles University in Prague) | Shellability is NP-complete |
| 1/18 | No Seminar **NOTE** Colloquium 1/16 at 3:30 PM | |
| 1/25 | Amey Katoli | Survey of symplectic cobordism in contact topology |
| 2/1 | Amey Katoli | Survey of symplectic cobordism in contact topology (continued) |
| 2/8 | No Seminar | |
| 2/15: 9:15 AM | Jean Pierre Mutanguha | Dynamics of free-by-cyclic groups |
| 2/22: 9:15 AM | Jean Pierre Mutanguha | Dynamics of free-by-cyclic groups (continued) |
| 3/1 | No Seminar | |
| 3/8 | Matthew Patitz | Universal simulation of directed systems in the abstract Tile Assembly Model requires undirectedness |
| 3/15 | Matthew Day | The structure of outer automorphism groups of RAAGs |
| 3/22 | No Seminar: Spring Break | |
| 3/29 | Matt Clay | Thermodynamic metrics on outer space |
| 4/5 | No Seminar: Spring Lecture Series 4/4-8 at UArk | |
| 4/12 | No Seminar | |
| 4/19 | No Seminar | |
| 4/26 | Nick Castro (Davis) | Relative trisections and induced monodromies **NOTE** Spring Redbud Topology Conference 4/28-29 at OSU |
| 5/3 | No Seminar | |
| 5/17: 10:00 AM | Arnaud de Mesmay (Grenoble) | On the complexity of optimal homotopies |