Time and Location
T5 LIT 368, T6,
Description and Goals:
TOPOLOGY and Dynamics SEMINAR meets on Tuesdays 5th period in LIT 368 (in the Fall 2020 meets online).
Fall-2020
September 1st Organizational meeting
September 15th Vladimir Chernov (Dartmouth College) “Khovanov homology and causality in spacetimes”
September 22nd Michael Daher “Cell-like maps and convergence in the Gromov Hausdorff Space”
September 29th Jamie Scott “The LS-category and the Topological Complexity of Maps” (oral exam)
October 6th Luca Di Cerbo
October 13th Michael Albanese
October 20th Henry Adams
October 27th
November 3rd
November 10th Basak Gurel
November 17th Phil Boyland
December 1st Jan Boronski
December 8th
Spring-2020
January 7th Organizational meeting
January 14th Mark Stern, Duke University, “A coarse Cheeger inequality for 1-forms”
January 21st Phil Boyland “N-fold minimal set measures for circle maps”
January 28th Jed Keesling”The geometry of the Stone-Cech Compactification”
February 4th Andrés Mauricio López Barragán, Federal Rural University of the Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
February 11th Thomas Banchoff, Brown University, “Fifty years of Discrete Critical Points”
February 18th Zach Hamaker, “Some techniques for shellability”
February 25th Albert Fathi, Georgia Tech, “Cut locus in Riemannian Geometry”
March 10th Luca Di Cerbo, “Seshadri constants, fake projective planes, and related topics“
March 17th No seminar
March 24th No Seminar
March 31st Alex Elchesen, “Universality of Persistence Diagrams and the Wasserstein Distances”
April 7th Dana Bartosova, “Universal minimal flows of locally compact non-Archimedean groups with two-sided invariant metrics”
April 14th Alex Dranishnikov, “Topological complexity of hyperbolic groups”
April 21st Kevin Knudson, “Approximate triangulations of Grassmannians”
This is a research seminar with a long tradition. It meets on Tuesdays.
For old seminars see `seminars’ here.
Graduate Student Topology Seminar is a survey seminar in Topology (meets online in the Fall 2020, Tuesdays 6th period):
UF Graduate Student TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
Fall-2020
September 1st (6th period) Organizational meeting
September 15th Trevor Davila “Knot Theory and Quantum Computing”
September 22nd Trevor Davila “Knot Theory and Quantum Computing.II”
September 29th Jamie Scott “The LS-category and the Topological Complexity of Maps” (oral exam starts at 11:45)
October 6th Nursultan Kuanyshov
October 13th Nursultan Kuanyshov
October 20th Michelle Daher
October 27th Michelle Daher
November 3rd Michael Freedman
November 10th Michael Freedman
November 17th Michael Freedman
December 1st Mahya Aghaee
December 8th Deep Kundu
Spring-2020
January 14th Organizational meeting
January 24th Trevor Davila “Introduction to braid groups”
January 31st No seminar
February 7th Jamie Scott “An Axiomatic Introduction to the Steenrod Squares”
February 14th Nursultan Kuanyshov “Bundle and Stiefel-Whitney classes”
February 21st Nursultan Kuanyshov “Bundle and Stiefel-Whitney classes.II”
February 28th no seminar
March 13th Alex Elchesen “Ultrafilters in Topology”
March 20th No Seminar
March 27th Hayden Hunter “On Jordan Curve Theorem”
April 3rd Michelle Daher “On cell-like maps”
April 10th No Seminar
April 17th Trevor Davila, “An introduction to quantum algorithms”
Old Seminars:
· 2019-2020
· 2018-2019
· 2017-2018
· 2016-2017
· 2015-2016
· 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 and Problem solving; A if >85, B+ if > 80.
Attendance and Late Policy
Attendance is strictly recommended.