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-2025
August 26th Organizational meeting
September 9th Luca Di Cerbo “Curvature, Macroscopic Dimensions, and Symmetric Products of Curves”
September 16th Tomoya Tatsuno, University of Oklahoma “Sectional Curvature Pinching of Two-Step Nilmanifolds”
September 23rd Aditya De Saha “Coarse LS Category”
September 30th Satya Howladar “On Gromov’s Conjecture for Graph Product of Groups”
October 7th Himanshu Yadav “Cycle Representatives, Localization, Statistics, and Visualization”
October 14th Simone Cecchini, Texas A&M “Positive scalar curvature with point singularities”
October 21th Hubert Wagner “Computational aspects of discrete Morse theory”
October 28th Henry Adams “Quantitative Borsuk-Ulam theorems”
November 4th Alex Dranishnikov “Distributional topological complexity of lens spaces”
November 18th Ekansh Jauhari “Bochner-type theorems revisited”
December 2nd Sergei Shabanov “Affine symplectic structures in gauge systems”
December 9th Florian Frick, Carnegie Mellon “Zeros by symmetry: Chebyshev systems and Ramsey theory”
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-2025
August 26th Organizational meeting
September 9th Ekansh Jauhari “Cohomology of sphere bundles. I”
September 16th Ekansh Jauhari “Cohomology of sphere bundles. II”
September 23rd Erik Shute “The Fundamental Group of Compact Manifolds of Nonpositive Curvature”
September 30th Erik Shute “The Fundamental Group of Compact Manifolds of Nonpositive Curvature.II”
October 7th Satya Howladar “Homology decomposition and Suspension Homotopy type”
October 14th Satya “Homology decomposition and Suspension Homotopy type.II”
October 21th Adi DeSaha “Coarse Cohomology Theory”
October 28th no seminar
November 4th Adi DeSaha “Coarse Cohomology Theory.II”
November 18th
December 2nd
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.