Time and Location
T5 LIT 368, W9 LIT 368,
Description and Goals:
TOPOLOGY and Dynamics SEMINAR meets on Tuesdays 5th period.
Fall-2017
August 29th Organizational meeting
September 12th Mike Hull
September 19th Jed Keesling
September 26th Peter Bubenik
October 3rd Peter Bubenik
October 10th visitor
October 17th visitor
October 24th Phil Boyland
October 31st Alex Wagner
November 7th Alex Dranishnikov
November 14th
November 21st
November 28th Mike Catanzaro
December 5th
Spring-2017
January 10th organizational meeting
January 17th Spencer Dowdall “Hyperbolicity in Outer space with applications to free group extensions”
January 24th Greg Conner (BYU) “Homotopy invariants of locally complicated spaces”
January 31st Phil Boyland “Applications of the Oxtoby-Ulam Theorem”
February 7th Jed Keesling “Topological entropy and the quadratic family”
February 14th Jurek Dydak (UTK) “Matrix algebra of sets and variants of decomposition complexity”
February 21st Kevin Knudson “Persistence vs. Discrete Morse Theory”
February 28th Kevin Knudson “Persistence vs. Discrete Morse Theory.II”
March 14th John Klein (Wayne State University) “Hypercurrents”
March 21st Mike Catanzaro “Exciton Scattering for Topologists”
March 28th Lou Block “Inverse limits which are the pseudoarc”
April 4th Alex Wagner Oral exam
April 11th Ash Amarasinghe PhD defense
April 18th Yuri Bahturin (Memorial University of Newfoundland) “Graded division algebras”
This is a research seminar with a long tradition. It meets on Tuesdays. For old seminars see `seminars’ here.
Graduate Student Topology Seminar meets on Wednesdays 9th period. It is a survey seminar in Topology:
UF Graduate Student TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
Fall-2017
August 23rd Organizational meeting
August 30th Trevor Davila
September 13th Trevor Davila
September 20th
September 27th
October 4th
October 11th
October 18th
October 25th
November 1st
November 8th
November 15th
November 22nd No Seminar
November 29th
December 6th
Spring-2017
January 10th Organizational meeting
January 17th no meeting
January 24th Ash Amarasinghe “Spaces of non-negatively curved surfaces”
January 31st Trevor Davila “Median Spaces and Groups”
February 7th Trevor Davila “Median Spaces and Groups.II”
February 14th Trevor Davila “Median Spaces and Groups.III”
February 21st Parker Edwards “Finding Matchings for Persistence Diagrams”
February 28th Parker Edwards “Finding Matchings for Persistence Diagrams.II”
March 14th Lacy Johnson “A discrete analogue to min-max theory”
March 21st Leo Betthauser “Topological shape reconstruciton”
March 28th Michelle Daher “On finitely dominated spaces and Wall’s finiteness obstruction”
April 11th Alex Wagner Oral Exam
April 11th Ash Amarasinghe PhD defense
April 18th Chindu Mohanakumar “Universal bundles”
Old Seminars:
· 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.