This is the website of the topology seminar at Northeastern University, organized by Ben Knudsen, Jose Perea, and Alex Suciu. The scope of the seminar encompasses algebraic, geometric, combinatorial, and applied topology. Unless otherwise noted, the seminar meets in person on Tuesdays at 4:30 PM Boston time in Lake Hall 509. Talks marked “virtual” stream live (Zoom meeting 975 7713 9071, password “topology”). Please email Ben if you’d like to be added to the mailing list. Below is the schedule of upcoming talks; click the links or see the calendar for abstracts.

• January 16: Aaron Landesman (Harvard), Homological stability for generalized Hurwitz spaces with an application to number theory
• January 23: Thomas Brazelton (Harvard), Equivariant enumerative geometry
• February 6: Eva Belmont (Case Western), Equivariant homological stability for unordered configuration spaces
• February 27: Vijay Higgins (Michigan State), Central elements in the SL(d) skein algebra
• March 19: Nikola Milićević (Penn State), Homotopy and singular homology groups of finite (di)graphs
• March 26: Fabian Ruehle (Northeastern), Machine learning for problems in knot theory
• April 2 (virtual): Tegan Emerson (PNNL), Topological frameworks in materials science
• April 9 (virtual): Andrés Ángel (Universidad de los Andes), Non-representable classes and stratifolds
• April 16: Agnès Beaudry (CU Boulder), Homotopy theory of parametrized quantum systems