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 Justin Malestein or Nick Miller.

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
TBA
October 11
3:45pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Maya Verma
University of Oklahoma
TBA
November 8
3:45pm (CST)
PHSC 1105
Joint with Karcher Colloquium
November 15
3:45pm (CST)
PHSC 1105
Michelle Chu
University of Minnesota
TBA

Spring 2023

January 25
4:00pm (CST)
PHSC 1105
Jing Tao
University of Oklahoma
Classification of isometries
February 8
4:00pm (CST)
PHSC 1105
Nicholas Miller
University of Oklahoma
Unmarked simple length spectral rigidity for covers
February 15
4:00pm (CST)
PHSC 1105
Tatiana Abdelnaim
University of Oklahoma
General Exam Talk: The Codimension-one Cohomology of SL_n(Z)
February 22
4:00pm (CST)
PHSC 1105
Samuel Lin
University of Oklahoma
A Basic Weyl’s Law for Singular Riemannian Foliations
March 1
4:00pm (CST)
PHSC 1105
Samuel Lin
University of Oklahoma
Spectral Multiplicity and Nodal Domains of Torus-invariant metrics
March 8
4:00pm (CST)
PHSC 1105
Tullia Dymarz
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Tukia type theorems in quasi-isometric rigidity of SOL-like groups
March 22
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Wenchuan Tian
University of California in Santa Barbara
Compactness conjecture for closed Riemannian 3-manifold with non-negative scalar curvature
March 29
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Alex Margolis
Vanderbilt University
Model geometries dominated by locally finite graphs
April 5
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
András Lőrincz
University of Oklahoma
Borel-Moore homology of determinantal varieties
April 12
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Justin Malestein
University of Oklahoma
The density of Penner-Thurston pseudo-Anosov mapping classes
April 19
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Rob Merrell
University of Oklahoma
General Exam Talk: Dehn functions of coabelian subgroups (algebraic triangle method)
April 20
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Hayden Hunter
University of Florida
On Higher Dimensional Milnor Frames
April 26
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Pratit Goswami
University of Oklahoma
General Exam Talk: Dehn Functions of Coabelian Subgroups (Algebraic Square Method)
May 3
4:00pm (CDT)
PHSC 1105
Meng-Che “Turbo” Ho
California State University Northridge
Representative systems of some metabelian groups
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