Topology and Geometry Seminar
Time and Location
T5 LIT 368,
Description and Goals: This is a research seminar with a long tradition
TOPOLOGY and GEOMETRY SEMINAR meets on Tuesdays 5th period in LIT 368
Fall-2026
August 25th Organizational meeting
September 1st No Seminar
September 15th Luca Di Cerbo “On Volume Entropy and Scalar Curvature in Dimension 3”
September 22nd Peter Bubenik “A Hilbert space embedding of persistence diagrams and barcodes”
September 29th Henry Adams
October 6th Hubert Wagner
October 13th Alex Dranishnikov
October 20th Satya Howladar
October 27th
November 3rd
November 10th
November 17th Michael Levin
December 1st Conference
Spring-2026
January 13th Organizational meeting
January 20th No Seminar
January 27th Sergei Shabanov “Affine symplectic structures in gauge systems.II”
February 3rd Wanchen Zhao “Continuous Persistence Landscapes”
February 10th Zach Ross “A Schauder Bases for Persistent Homology”
February 17th Tuyen Pham “Kd-trees for Bregman geometry”
February 24th Peter Bubenik “Random subquotients of persistence modules”
March 3rd Alex Dranishnikov “Totally aspherical Symplectic manifolds with nontrivial 2nd homotopy group”
March 10th Greg Malen, Skidmore College “An “Expansion” Regime for Random Clique Complexes”
March 24th Ekansh Jauhari “Topological complexity of symmetric products of non-orientable surfaces“
March 31st Alex Karassev, Nipissing University “Various aspects of homogeneity”
April 7th Erik Shute “Effective Estimates for the Volume Entropy”
April 15th Henry Adams “Embedding problems and quantifying discontinuity”
April 21st Luca Di Cerbo
Some of the old seminars:
Graduate Student Topology Seminar is a survey seminar in Topology :
UF Graduate Student TOPOLOGY SEMINAR meets on Tuesdays 8th period in LIT 423
Fall-2026
September 1st Organizational meeting
September 15th Satya Howladar “Gysin exact sequence”
September 22nd Satya Howladar “Gysin exact sequence.II”
September 29th Abby White
October 6th Kushagri Sharma
October 13th Erik Shute
October 20th Erik Shute
October 27th Samanyu Khosla
November 3rd Vedanta Ramakrishnan
November 10th Ekansh Jauhari
November 17th Ekansh Jauhari
December 1st
Spring-2026
January 13th Organizational meeting
January 20th No Seminar
January 27th Adi DeSaha “Higson’s Corona”
February 3rd Adi DeSaha “Higson’s Corona.II”
February 10th Satya Howladar “Steenrod squares & Thom isomorphism”
February 17th Satya Howladar “Bolotov’s example”
February 24th Ekansh Jauhari “Classifying spaces of families of subgroups, I”
March 3rd Ekansh Jauhari “Classifying spaces of families of groups II”
March 10th Maguette Beye “Monotonicity estimate for p-harmonic forms”
March 24th Erik Shute “The geodesic flow of visibility manifolds, part I”
March 31st Erik Shute “The geodesic flow of visibility manifolds, part II”
April 7th Zach Ross “Topological Complexity with Symmetry”
April 15th Zach Ross “Topological Complexity with Symmetry.II”
April 21st Carl Ye
Old Seminars:
·2024-2025
·2023-2024
·2022-2023
·2021-2022
·2020-2021
·2019-2020
·2018-2019
·2017-2018
·2016-2017
·2014-2015
·2013-2014
·2012-2013
· 2011-2012
· 2010-2011
· 2008
· 2006-2007
· 2005-2006
· 2004-2005
· 2003-2004
· 2002-2003
· 2001-2002
Grading Scale
80%Attendance+20%Presentation; A if >85, B+ if > 80.
Attendance and Late Policy
Attendance is strictly recommended.