This is the website of the topology seminar at Northeastern University, organized by Ben Knudsen, Jose Perea, Alex Suciu, and Anh Hoang. 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.
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- January 21: Solomon Jekel (Northeastern), Torsion at the threshold for mapping class groups
- February 4: Alex Elchesen (Colorado State), Möbius (co)homology as a derived functor
- February 25: Sarah Brauner (Brown), Configuration spaces and combinatorial algebras
- March 11 (noon, virtual): Ximena Fernández (City University of London), Strong discrete Morse theory
- March 18: Zachary Himes (Michigan), Stability patterns in the rational homology of (ordered) Hurwitz spaces
- April 1 (virtual): Stephen Bigelow (UCSB), Using configuration spaces to construct quantum groups
- April 8: Avner Ash (Boston College), The cohomology of SL_n(Z)
- April 15: Justin Curry (SUNY Albany), Sheaf-theoretic perspectives on the persistence map