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 10: Mona Merling (Penn), Equivariant A-theory and spaces of equivariant h-cobordisms
• January 24 (noon, virtual): Bastian Rieck (Helmholtz Munich), Topology-based graph learning
• February 7: Sam Nariman (Purdue), Bounded and unbounded cohomology of diffeomorphism groups
• February 28 (noon, virtual): Juliet Cooke (Nottingham), Skein categories as factorisation homology
• March 21: Michael Ching (Amherst), Tangent infinity-categories and Goodwillie calculus
• March 28: Shmuel Weinberger (Chicago), Simplicial complexity of lens spaces and related stories
• April 4 (virtual): Adela Zhang (MIT), Mod p homology of configuration spaces via spectral Lie algebras
• April 11 (virtual): Bei Wang (Utah), Topology of word embeddings