Redbud
Topology
Conference

University of Oklahoma, March 31‑April 2, 2023

As the redbud trees bloom in the springtime,
we welcome you to join us at the 2023 Redbud Topology Conference. This regional gathering will bring together topologists and geometers from the University of Arkansas, the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, and beyond. Amidst the beauty of the season, we will delve into the complexities of topology and related areas, sharing insights and forging connections.^{*by chatgpt}

• Tara Brendle
  Glasgow
• Nate Broaddus
  Ohio State
• Lei Chen
  Maryland
• Rita Jiménez Rolland
  UNAM
• Annette Karrer
  McGill
• Rylee Lyman
  Newark
• Alan Reid
  Rice
• Daniel Studenmund
  Binghamton
• Ric Wade
  Oxford

All talks will take place in Room 201 of the Physical Sciences Center (PHSC), located at 601 Elm Avenue. Look for the tall concrete buidling that lives up to its nickname, the "blender", and you won't miss it. If you are planning to attend Friday's workshop, come first to PHSC 424 at 2pm for the Meet and Greet.

For abstracts, click here or click on individual titles.

For information on the lightning talks, click here.

Graduate Workshop

Friday, March 31 (PHSC 201)
2:00	-	2:20	Meet and Greet (PHSC 424)
2:30	-	3:20	Tara Brendle	Abelian quotients of the Torelli group
3:30	-	4:20	Rita Jiménez Rolland	Cohomology of mapping class groups: known and unknown
4:30	-	5:20	Alan Reid	Distinguishing 3-manifold groups by finite quotients
5:30	-	6:30	Lightning talks

Main Conference

Saturday, April 1 (PHSC 201)
9:00	-	9:30	Coffee and bagels
9:30	-	10:20	Tara Brendle	Semi-direct product structures in mapping class groups of 3-manifolds
10:35	-	11:25	Ric Wade	Aut-invariant quasimorphisms on groups
11:40	-	12:30	Annette Karrer	From Stallings’ Theorem to connected components of Morse boundaries of graph of groups
12:30	-	2:00	Lunch Break
2:00	-	2:50	Rita Jiménez Rolland	On normalizers and commensurators of abelian subgroups of mapping class groups
3:05	-	3:55	Lei Chen	Mapping class groups of circle bundles over a surface
4:10	-	5:00	Alan Reid	Profinite rigidity, direct products and finite presentability
5:00	-	6:00	Break
6:00	-	8:00	Dinner at Othello's	Address: 434 Buchanan Ave
Sunday, April 2 (PHSC 201)
9:00	-	9:30	Coffee and bagels
9:30	-	10:20	Rylee Lyman	Deformation Spaces of Free Splittings and Coarse Lipschitz Retractions
10:35	-	11:25	Nathan Broaddus	The Steinberg Module of the braid group
11:40	-	12:30	Daniel Studenmund	Hidden symmetries of groups via topology of solenoidal spaces

• Noel Brady
  U. Oklahoma
• Matt Clay
  U. Arkansas
• Max Forester
  U. Oklahoma
• Neil Hoffman
  Oklahoma State
• Justin Malestein
  U. Oklahoma
• Peter Patzt
  U. Oklahoma
• Yoav Rieck
  U. Arkansas
• Henry Segerman
  Oklahoma State
• Jing Tao
  U. Oklahoma

Participant support is provided by NSF Award DMS-2247414.

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