=====Geometry and Topology Seminar===== We meet **Thursdays** at **2:45--3:45 pm** in **Whitney Hall 100E**. This semester's organizers are James Hyde and Lorenzo Ruffoni. The seminar has an announcement [[https://groups.google.com/a/binghamton.edu/g/topsem|mailing list]] open to all. Topics include: geometric group theory, differential geometry and topology, low-dimensional topology, algebraic topology, and homotopy theory. ====== Fall 2025 ====== * **August 28th** \\ Speaker: ** Cary Malkiewich (Binghamton) ** \\ Title: ** Higher scissors congruence ** // Abstract: // Scissors congruence is the study of polytopes, up to the relation of cutting into finitely many pieces and rearranging the pieces. In the 2010s, Zakharevich defined a "higher" version of scissors congruence, where we don't just ask whether two polytopes are scissors congruent, but also how many scissors congruences there are from one polytope to another. Zakharevich's definition is a form of algebraic K-theory, which is famously difficult to compute, but I describe some recent work that makes these calculations possible, at least for low-dimensional geometries. This allows us to compute the homology of the group of cut-and-paste operations in new cases, including the group of interval exchange transformations, and a new proof of Szymik and Wahl's theorem that Thompson's group V is acyclic. Much of this talk is based on joint work with Anna-Marie Bohmann, Teena Gerhardt, Mona Merling, and Inna Zakharevich, and also with Alexander Kupers, Ezekiel Lemann, Jeremy Miller, and Robin Sroka. \\ * **September 4th** \\ Speaker: ** Liz Tatum (Rochester) ** \\ Title: ** ** // Abstract: // \\ * **September 11th** \\ Speaker: ** ** \\ Title: ** ** // Abstract: // \\ * **September 18th** \\ Speaker: ** ** \\ Title: ** ** // Abstract: // \\ * **September 25th** \\ Speaker: ** ** \\ Title: ** ** // Abstract: // \\ * **October 2nd** \\ No seminar \\ * **October 9th** \\ Speaker: ** ** \\ Title: ** ** // Abstract: // \\ * **October 16th** \\ Speaker: ** ** \\ Title: ** ** // Abstract: // \\ * **October 23th** \\ Speaker: ** ** \\ Title: ** ** // Abstract: // \\ * **October 30th** \\ Speaker: ** ** \\ Title: ** ** // Abstract: // \\ * **November 6th** \\ Speaker: ** Genevieve Walsh (Tufts) ** \\ Title: ** ** // Abstract: // \\ * **November 13th** \\ Speaker: ** Maximilien Peroux (Michigan State University) ** \\ Title: ** ** // Abstract: // \\ * **November 20th** \\ Speaker: ** ** \\ Title: ** ** // Abstract: // \\ * **November 27th** \\ No seminar \\ * **December 4th** \\ Speaker: ** ** \\ Title: ** ** // Abstract: // \\