CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar

2025 — 2026

Unless a change is noted below, the CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar takes place at 4:15pm on Tuesdays in Room 5417 of the Graduate Center, located at 365 Fifth Avenue across the street from the Empire State Building (seminar reminders will be emailed to those on the seminar mailing list). All are welcome.

Click on the title of a talk for the abstract (if available).


2025-2026
September 9, 2025 Michael Kopreski (Bilbao) Geometric models for infinite-type surface mapping class groups
September 16, 2025
Special Time: 2:45-3:45pm 		Tarik Aougab (Haverford) Sharp bounds for 1-systems
September 23, 2025 No seminar today
September 30, 2025 Nick Vlamis (CUNY) Strongly bounded generation in transformation groups
October 7, 2025 Neil Hoffman (Minnesota) Alternating Quotients of Twist Knot Groups
October 14, 2025 No seminar today CUNY on Monday schedule
October 21, 2025 Joe Boninger (Boston College)
October 28, 2025 Sangrok Oh (Basque) Right-angled Artin groups in hierarchically hyperbolic groups
November 4, 2025 Tam Cheetham-West (Yale)
November 11, 2025 Sayantika Mondal (CUNY)
November 18, 2025 Zhenghao Rao (Rutgers) Incompressible surfaces in closed hyperbolic manifolds
November 25, 2025 Thomas Ng (Brandeis)
December 2, 2025


Related student seminars:

Reading Seminar on Hyperbolic 3-manifolds


Schedule from previous years.

Related seminars in the NYC area:


This seminar is partially supported by the National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation.
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