Research Seminar Algebraic and Geometric Topology

Winter Term 2025/2026

Time and place Title Speaker
13.11.25, 14:00, SR 3.61 A dendroidal approach to Goodwillie-Weiss manifold calculus Miguel Barata (Utrecht)
04.12.25, 14:00, SR 3.61 Cell Structures on Configuration Spaces of Euclidean Spaces Jaspar Goerke (KIT)
11.12.25, 14:00, SR 3.61 Non-Multiplicativity of the Signature for Coverings of Poincaré Complexes Alexander Mrisnki (KIT)
13.02.25, 14:00, TBA TBA Jan Steinebrunner (Cambridge)
22.01.26, 14:00, SR 3.61 TBA Thorben Kastenholz (KIT)

Summer Term 2025

Time and place Title Speaker
31.07.25, 13:15, SR 3.69 Topological invariance of rational Pontryagin classes (after Gromov) Manuel Krannich
17.07.25, 14:30, SR 3.69 Mapping class groups of h-cobordant manifolds Samuel Muñoz-Echániz
05.06.25, 14:00, SR 3.69 Homology of Thompson groups Johannes Kunz
15.05.25, 14:00, SR 3.69 Arithmeticity of some automorphism groups of high-dimensional manifolds Fadi Mezher
08.05.25, 14:30, SR 3.69 Stable moduli spaces of high dimensional manifolds João Lobo Fernandes
29.04.25, 13:45, SR 1.67 Applications of smoothing theory to 4-manifolds Mark Powell
22.04.25, 14:00, SR 2.59 Topological K-theory and the image of the J-homomorphism Lukas Schneider

Winter Term 2024/2025

Time and place Title Speaker
22.10.24, 4pm, online* Canonical representations of surface groups Daniel Litt
05.11.24, 4pm, online* Residual finiteness of some automorphism groups of high dimensional manifolds Fadi Mezher
19.11.24, 4pm, online* Corks for exotic diffeomorphisms Terrin Warren
03.12.24, 4pm, online* Filtered objects Tyler Lawson
17.12.24, 4pm, online* Homotopy non-invariance of the Goresky-Hingston coproduct Noah Porcelli
06.02.25, 2pm 20.30 SR 3.61 Goodwillie–Weiss duality for the stable calculus of singular manifolds Connor Malin

Summer Term 2024

Time and place Ttile Speaker
23.04.24, 4pm, online* Pseudo-isotopies of simply connected 4-manifolds Daniel Hartman
07.05.24, 4pm, online* The homology of moduli spaces of equivariant manifolds Pierre Elis
21.05.24, 4pm, online* Enumerating stably trivial vector bundles with higher real K-theories Morgan Opie
04.06.24, 4pm, online* Unstable algebraic K-theory: E-infinity structure and the rank filtration Mikala Ørsnes Jansen
18.06.24, 4pm, online* Topology of some function spaces Oishee Banerjee
02.07.24, 4pm, online* Hopf algebra structures in the cohomology of moduli spaces Søren Galatius
11.07.24, 2pm, 20.30 SR 3.69 The generalized Serre question Tariq Syed
16.07.24, 4pm, online* Formality of E_n-algebras and cochains on spheres Gijs Heuts

Winter Term 2023/2024

Time and place Ttile Speaker
26.10.23, 4pm, online** Introduction to: (Parametrised) h-cobordisms and algebraic K-theory Maxine Calle, Connor Malin
02.11.23, 4pm, online** Introduction to: Surgery theory Lea Kenigsberg, Jonathan Pedersen
09.11.23, 4pm, online** Introduction to: Stable homology of diffeomorphism groups João Lobo Fernandes, Robin Stoll
16.11.23, 4pm, online** Introduction to: Embedding calculus Andres Mejia, Samuel Muñoz-Echániz, Alice Rolf
08.02.24, 12:45 pm, SR 3.61 Simplicial bounded cohomology and stability Robin Sroka
27.02.24, 4pm, online* The Second Rational Homology of the Torelli group of a surface Daniel Minahan
12.03.24, 4pm, online* Chern classes and Z/p-smoothings Oliver Wang
26.03.24, 4pm, online* Traces of dualizable categories and functoriality of the Becker-Gottlieb transfers Marco Volpe
09.04.24, 4pm, online* Diffeomorphisms of 3-dimensional handlebodies via Teichmüller theory Louis Hainaut

Summer Term 2023

Time and place Speaker
11.04.23, 4pm, online* Shachar Carmeli
20.04.23, 2pm Christian Kremer
25.04.23, 4pm, online* Leon Hendrian
09.05.23, 4pm, online* Markus Land
23.05.23, 4pm, online* Aaron Naber

Winter Term 2022/2023

Time and place Speaker
18.10.22, 16 Uhr, online* Adela Zhang
27.10.22, 14 Uhr, SR 3.61 Florian Kranhold
01.11.22, 16 Uhr, online* Samuel Muñoz Echániz
15.11.22, 16 Uhr, online* Geoffroy Horel
29.11.22, 16 Uhr, online* Jianfeng Lin
01.12.22, 14 Uhr, SR 3.61 Robin Stoll
13.12.22, 16 Uhr, online* Georg Biedermann
13.01.23, 14 Uhr, SR 3.61 Andrea Bianchi
17.01.23, 16 Uhr, online* Kaya Ferendo
31.01.23, 16 Uhr, online* Ben Knudsen
14.02.23, 16 Uhr, online* Owen Gwilliam

* This talk is part of the online seminar Manifolds, homotopy theory, and related topics.

** Together with Thomas Goodwillie, Alexander Kupers, and Mona Merling we are organizing an introductory online seminar in preparation to the workshop Spaces of Manifolds: Algebraic and Geometric Approaches at the Banff International Research Station.