Topology and Dynamical Systems

Welcome to the Topology and Geometry seminar.

Our seminar is held in Little Hall room 368,
Tuesdays during Period 5 (11:45-12:35).

Seminar organizer: Alex Dranishnikov

Spring 2025 schedule:

Date	Speaker	Title
January 14	N/A	Organizational Meeting
January 21	No seminar
January 28	Jonathan Scott, Cleveland State Univ	Simplicial loop spaces
February 4	Basak Gurel, Univ of Central Florida	Invariant Sets and Hyperbolic periodic Orbits
February 11	Zach Thomas	Vectorizations in Persistent Homology Through Dual Spaces
February 18	Henry Adams	When do Hausdorff and Gromov-Hausdorff distances coincide?
February 25	Hubert Wagner	Approximations in Bregman geometry
March 4	Lorenzo Ruffoni, Bingahmton University	A Singer conjecture for right-angled Coxeter groups with nerve a surface
March 11	Nicolo Zava	Dimension of the Gromov-Hausdorff space and applications to computational topology
March 25	Ekansh Jauhari
April 1	Peter Bubenik
April 8	Sai Bavisetty, UF Shands
April 15	Luca Di Cerbo
April 22	Wanchen Zhao

Fall 2024 schedule:

Date	Speaker	Title
August 27	N/A	Organizational Meeting
September 10	Henry Adams	Persistent equivaraint cohomology I
September 17	Adi DeSaha	Persistent equivariant cohomolory II
September 24	Hubert Wagner	Understanding Higher-Order Interactions in Information Space
October 1	Ekansh Jauhari	On distributional Lusternik-Schnirelmann category of manifolds
October 8	Barbara Giunti, SUNY Albany	Projective approximations
October 15	Sucharita Mallick	Anti-Vietoris--Rips metric thickenings and Borsuk graphs
October 22	Tuyen Pham	Potential definitions the Bregman--Hausdorff divergence
October 29	Yeor Hafuta	Cancelled
November 5	Chris Kapulin, Univ of Western Ontario	Introduction to Homotopy Type Theory
November 12	Daniel Carranza, Johns Hopkins Univ	Nonexistence of colimits in naive discrete homotopy theory
November 19	Aaron Thrasher	Price Inequality and the Growth of Harmonic Functions on Nonpositively Curved Manifolds
December 3