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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