The Geometry and Topology Background Seminar regularly meets on Monday at 12:45 in Skiles 006 unless otherwise indicated.
Spring 2023
| Date | Title | Speaker | Institute |
| Feb 20 | TBA | Angela Wu | LSU |
Fall 2022
| Date | Title | Speaker | Institute |
| Dec 5 | Morse functions on surfaces, the pants complex, and 4-manifolds | Gabriel Islambouli | UC, Davis |
| Nov 14 | Out(F_n) and Stallings Folds | George Domat | Rice |
| Sept 19 | From walls to cube complexes | Abdul Zalloum | U. Toronto |
Spring 2020
The Geometry and Topology Background Seminar has been cancelled starting March 30 due to the shutdown of on campus activities related to COVID-19.
| Date | Title | Speaker | Institute |
| April 20 | University of Illinois at Chicago | ||
| April 13 | Princeton | ||
| March 30 | MPI | ||
| March 9 | Seifert forms and the 4-genus | Allison Miller | Rice University |
| Feb 17 | Algebraic definitions for string topology | Kate Poirier | CUNY – City College of Technology |
| Feb 3 | Khovanov homology and invariants of braid closures | Gage Martin | Boston College |
| Jan 27 | The coalgebra of singular chains and the fundamental group | Manuel Rivera | Purdue |
Fall 2019
| Date | Title | Speaker | Institute |
| Dec 2 | Orderability of Knot Groups | Jonathan Johnson | UT, Austin |
| Oct 28 | Heegaard Floer homology and Seifert manifolds | Sungkyung Kang | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Oct 21 | Groups as geometric objects |
Jacob Russell | CUNY |
| Sept 30 | Fundamental groups of projective varieties | Corey Bregman | Brandeis University |
| Sept 23 | An Introduction to Braids and Complex Polynomials |
Michael Dougherty | Colby College |
| Aug 26 | Topology in complex dynamics | Jasmine Powel | University of Michigan |
Spring 2019
| Date | Title | Speaker | Institute |
| Apr 15 | High-dimensional knots, and rho-invariants | Patrick Orson | Boston College |
| Apr 8 | Seifert fibered manifolds | Tye Lidman | NCSU |
| Apr 3 | Classical knot invariants and slice surfaces | Peter Feller | ETH Zurich |
| Apr 1 | Doubly slice Montesinos links | Ahmad Issa | University of Texas |
| Mar 11 | Spheres in 4-manifolds | Hannah Schwartz | Bryn Mawr |
| Mar 4 | A partial order on nu+ equivalence classes | Kouki Sato | University of Tokyo |
| Feb 11 | Singularities of Lagrangian and Legendrian fronts | Daniel Álvarez-Gavela | IAS |
Fall 2018
| Date | Title | Speaker | Institute |
| Dec 3 | Introduction to symplectic flexibility | Oleg Lazarev | Columbia |
| Nov 12 | Models of unstable motivic homotopy theory | Tom Bachmann | MIT |
| Nov 5 | Introduction to Freedman’s disk embedding conjecture | Min Hoon Kim | Korea Institute for Advanced Study |
| Oct 15 | Transverse links in the tight three sphere | Lev Tovstopyat-Nelip | Boston College |
| Sept 24 | Order Linking Numbers | Miriam Kuzbary | Rice University |