CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar

2024 — 2025

Unless a change is noted below, the CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar takes place at 4:15pm on Tuesdays in Room 6417 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).


2024-2025
February 25, 2025 Doron Puder (IAS) Extracting stable commutator length and other invariants of words from random matrices
March 4, 2025 Evan Scott (CUNY) Equivariant Laudenbach-Poénaru and Equivariant Trisections
March 11, 2025 Ilya Kapovitch (CUNY) On Two-Generator Subgroups of Mapping Torus Groups
March 18, 2025 Rocky Klein (Brandeis) Group Conjugation in the Mapping Class Group of Graphs
March 25, 2025 Tanushree Shah (Chennai Mathematics Institute) Contact cosmetic surgery
April 1, 2025 Bratati Som (Buffalo) Acylindrical actions on trees and applications to the outer automorphism group of Baumslag-Solitar groups
April 8, 2025 Sarasi Jayasekara (Rutgers) Topology and Dynamics of Solenoids of Split Sequences
April 15, 2025 No seminar today CUNY on Monday schedule
April 22, 2025
Talk 1: Time 1:30
Thesis Room 		Swarup Kumar Das (TCG CREST) A spanning tree model for Khovanov homology using algebraic Morse theory and its applications
April 22, 2025
Talk 2: 4:15pm 		Junzhi Huang (Yale) Depth-one foliations, pseudo-Anosov flows and universal circles
April 29, 2025 Adam Lowrance (Vassar) Arc index and Turaev genus
May 6, 2025 Eduardo Reyes (Yale)
Fall 2024:
September 17, 2024 David Futer (Temple) Arithmeticity and commensurability of links in thickened surfaces
September 24, 2024 Catherine Pfaff (Queens and IAS) Typical trees in the boundary of outer space
October 1, 2024 Jacob Russell (Swathmore) The admissible curve graph is not hyperbolic
October 8, 2024 Yulan Qing (UT Knoxville) Gromov boundary generalized
October 15, 2024 No seminar today CUNY on Monday schedule
October 22, 2024 Inhyeok Choi (Cornell) Genericity of pseudo-Anosovs and quasi-isometries
October 29, 2024 Kasia Jankiewicz (UCSC and IAS) Topological complexity of graph braid groups
November 5, 2024 No seminar today
November 12, 2024 Paige Hillen (UCSB) Lattices of Large Systole Containing a Fixed 3-Manifold Group
November 19, 2024 Alina Vdovina (CUNY) Knots, surfaces and complexity
November 26, 2024 No seminar today
December 3, 2024 Anastasiia Tsvietkova (Rutgers) Polynomially many genus g surfaces in a hyperbolic 3-manifold
December 10, 2024
Talk 1: Time 2:45
Room: 6495		 Tejas Kalelkar (IISER Pune) Connecting essential triangulations
December 10, 2024
Talk 2: 4:15pm 		Koichi Oyakawa (Vanderbilt) Geometry and dynamics of the extension graph of graph product of groups


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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