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Geometry and Topology Seminar

We meet Thursdays at 2:50–3:50 pm in Whitney Hall 100E. This semester's organizers are James Hyde and Lorenzo Ruffoni. The seminar has an announcement mailing list open to all.

Topics include: geometric group theory, differential geometry and topology, low-dimensional topology, algebraic topology, and homotopy theory.

Spring 2025

  • January 23rd
    Organizational meeting, meet in WH 100E at 2:50pm
  • January 30th
    Speaker: Matthew Zaremsky (University at Albany)
    Title: Progress around the Boone-Higman conjecture

    Abstract: The Boone-Higman conjecture (1973) predicts that every finitely generated group with solvable word problem embeds in a finitely presented simple group. There has been a flurry of recent activity around this conjecture, in particular relating it to the family of so called twisted Brin-Thompson groups. In this talk I will give some background on the conjecture, give a gentle introduction to twisted Brin-Thompson groups, and then discuss various recent results of mine, including some joint with combinations of Jim Belk, Collin Bleak, Francesco Fournier-Facio, James Hyde, and Francesco Matucci.

  • February 6th
    Speaker: TBA (Institution)
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  • February 13th
    Speaker: TBA (Institution)
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  • February 20th
    Speaker: TBA (Institution)
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  • February 27th
    Speaker: Valentina Zapata Castro (University of Virginia)
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  • March 6th
    Speaker: TBA (Institution)
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  • March 13th
    Spring break
  • March 20th
    Peter Hilton Memorial Lecture
  • March 27th
    Speaker: TBA (Institution)
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  • April 3rd
    Speaker: Theodore Weisman (University of Michigan)
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  • April 10th
    Speaker: Marco Volpe (University of Toronto)
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  • April 17th
    Speaker: TBA (Institution)
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  • April 24th
    Speaker: Kasia Jankiewicz (UC Santa Cruz / IAS)
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  • May 1st
    Speaker: TBA (Institution)
    Title: TBA

    Abstract: TBA

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