Geometry and Topology Seminar


The Geometry and Topology Seminar meets on Wednesday afternoons at 3:45pm CT in PHSC 1105. For more information about the seminar, contact Nick Miller.

Spring 2024

January 24
3:45pm (CST)
PHSC 1105 		Ricardo Mendes
University of Oklahoma 		Algebraicity of singular Riemannian foliations
January 31
3:45pm (CST)
PHSC 1105 		Jeremy West
University of Oklahoma 		\(\Sigma\)-Invariants of Surface Houghton Groups
February 7
3:45pm (CST)
PHSC 1105 		Carolyn Abbott
Brandeis University 		Morse boundaries of CAT(0) cubical groups
February 14
3:45pm (CST)
PHSC 1105 		Tomoya Tatsuno
University of Oklahoma 		Abstract Automorphisms of Heisenberg Groups from a Geometric Perspective
February 21
3:45pm (CST)
PHSC 1105 		Jenya Sapir
Binghamton University 		Geodesics on high genus surfaces
February 28
3:45pm (CST)
PHSC 1105 		Mike Davis
The Ohio State University 		Mod p homology growth for right-angled Artin groups
March 6
3:45pm (CST)
PHSC 1105 		Jonathan Johnson
Oklahoma State University 		Order-Preserving Braids
March 13
3:45pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105 		Damien Osajda
University of Copenhagen 		Tits Alternative for groups acting on 2-dimensional CAT(0) complexes
March 27
3:45pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105 		Jing Tao
University of Oklahoma 		Taming tame maps of surfaces of infinite type
April 3
3:45pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105 		Homin Lee
Northwestern University 		Rigidity of actions by higher rank lattice
April 10
3:45pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105 		Slot being held
TBA 		TBA
April 17
3:45pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105 		Slot being held
TBA 		TBA
April 24
3:45pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105 		Didac Martinez Granado
University of Luxembourg 		The space of co-geodesic currents of a hyperbolic group
April 29
3:45pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105 		Sanghoon Kwak
University of Utah 		Nonunique Ergodicity on the Boundary of Outer Space

Fall 2023

August 30
3:45pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105 		Travis Mandel
University of Oklahoma 		Canonical coordinates on decorated Teichmüller space
September 6
3:45pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105 		Michael Jablonski
University of Oklahoma 		It doesn't take much to pin down your favorite semi-simple Lie group
September 20
3:45pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105 		Matthew Scalamandre
Notre Dame University 		A Solomon-Tits Theorem for Rings
September 27
3:45pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105 		Rachel Skipper
University of Utah 		Braiding groups of homeomorphisms of the Cantor set
October 4
3:45pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105 		Anuradha Ekanayake
University of Oklahoma 		Cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds with a compact totally geodesic boundary
October 11
3:45pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105 		Maya Verma
University of Oklahoma 		Torsion-Free Uniform Lattices in Aut(\(X_{m,n}\))
October 25
3:45pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105 		Peter Patzt
University of Oklahoma 		Improved homological stability for \(\operatorname{GL}_n \mathbb Z\)
November 1
3:45pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105 		Tatiana Abdelnaim
University of Oklahoma 		High Dimensional Cohomology of Arithmetic Groups
November 8
3:45pm (CST)
PHSC 1105 		Joint with Karcher Colloquium
November 15
3:45pm (CST)
PHSC 1105 		Michelle Chu
University of Minnesota 		Surfaces in two-bridge knots from intersecting components in the character variety
December 6
3:45pm (CST)
PHSC 1105 		Leonard Rubin
University of Oklahoma 		Characterizing Dimension in Inverse Systems
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