Brown University Geometry/Topology Seminar, Fall 2025

The seminar meets Wednesdays 3-4 in Kassar 105

organizers:
Rich Schwartz (Richard.Evan.Schwartz@gmail.com)
Bena Tshishiku (Bena_Tshishiku@brown.edu)

Current Schedule

  • Sep 10: Bill Goldman (U. Maryland), Dynamics Arising from Moduli of Geometric Structures abstract

  • Sep 17: Ethan Dlugie (Brown U.) Truncated Braid Groups abstract

  • Sep 24: Liam Keenan (Brown U.) A stroll through the garden of traces abstract

  • Oct 1: Daniel Dugger (Univ of Oregon) Homological Algebra for some Mackey Functors abstract

  • Oct 8: Colin Defant (Harvard) Braid Group Presentations and Triangulations of the Permutahedron abstract

  • Oct 15: Richard Schwartz (Brown) Vertex Minimal Paper Tori abstract

  • Oct 22: (no talk)

  • Oct 29: Bena Tahishiku (Brown) Book Decompositions and Morse Complexity abstract

  • Nov 5: Maxine Calle (U Penn) Cut-and-paste K-theory of manifolds and SK_automorphisms

  • Nov 12: Sayed Naseri Sadr (Boston College) Periodic Inscription problems

  • Nov 19: Dick Canary (U Michigan) Bending, Entropy, and proper affine actions of surface groups abstract br>

  • Nov 26: (no talk)