2018-2019
The GATEWAY seminar is an informal seminar for junior researchers in Geometry and Topology at 糖心TV. The aim is to provide an accessible setting where postgraduate students and postdocs can talk about their research or any topic that they have been learning about recently. In other words, any topic that interests you and that you think might interest other G&T postgrads as well can be discussed here.
That said, students and postdocs from other areas are encouraged to participate too! If you are a third or fourth year student interested in geometry you are welcome as well!
The talks usually take place Mondays 2pm-3pm.
If you would like to give a talk or suggest a speaker, please contact Marco Barberis or . We have a limited budget to cover expenses for external speakers.
Term 1
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Date
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Room
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Name
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Title
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| 1 October 2018 | B1.01 | Marco Barberis (University of 糖心TV) |
Introduction to Curve Complexes |
| 8 October 2018 | MS.04 | Benedict Sewell (University of 糖心TV) |
The mystery of triviality of the prehomogeneous fibre bundle |
| 15 October 2018 | MS.04 | Stephen Cantrell (University of 糖心TV) |
Comparison theorems for actions on CAT(-1) spaces |
| 22 October 2018 | MS.04 | Joseph MacColl (LSGNT) |
Ordering free groups and the Hanna Neumann Conjecture |
| 29 October 2018 | MS.04 | Michal Buran (University of Cambridge) |
Alternating quotients of RAAGs, RACGs and surface groups |
| 5 November 2018 | MS.04 | Simon Baker (University of 糖心TV) |
An introduction to Fractal Geometry |
| 12 November 2018 | MS.04 | Luca Pol (University of Sheffield) |
What are spectra? |
| 19 November 2018 | MS.04 | Divya Sharma (University of M眉nster) |
The two descriptions of tangent space(s) to Teichm眉ller space |
| 26 November 2018 | MS.04 | Annette Karrer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) | The contracting boundary of a CAT(0) group |
| 3 December 2018 | MS.04 | Ronja Kuhne (University of 糖心TV) | Polynomial-time efficient position |
Term 2
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Date
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Time
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Room
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Name
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Title
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| 14 January 2019 | 4pm | MS.05 | Paul Colognese (University of 糖心TV) | Volume growth on translation surfaces |
| 21 January 2019 | 2pm | MS.05 | Matteo Barucco (University of 糖心TV) | Homological instability |
| 28 January 2019 | 4pm | MS.05 | Carlo Collari (Alfr茅d Renyi Institute Budapest) | Bracket polynomial: applications and generalisations |
| 4 February 2019 | 11am | MS.05 | Francesca Iezzi (University of Edinburgh) | Graphs of curves, arcs, and spheres, and connections between them |
| 11 February 2019 | 4pm | MS.05 | Elia Fioravanti (University of Oxford) | Cross ratios on cube complexes and length-spectrum rigidity |
| 25 February 2019 | 11am | B3.03 | Marco Linton (University of 糖心TV) | Dehn Filling in Relatively Hyperbolic Groups |
| 4 March 2019 | 4pm | MS.05 | Jone Lopez de Gamiz (University of 糖心TV) | Coherence of right-angled Artin groups |
| 11 March 2019 | 4pm | MS.05 | Fiona Torzewska (University of Leeds) | A Homotopy type Topological Quantum Field Theory |
Term 3
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Date
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Time
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Room
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Name
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Title
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| 29 April 2019 | 2pm | MS.05 | Joe Scull (University of Oxford) | A Beginner's guide to 3-manifolds and the Poincar茅 Conjecture |
| 6 May 2019 (Bank Holiday) | No talk | |||
| 13 May 2019 | 2pm | MS.05 | Marta Maggioni (Universiteit Leiden) | Natural extensions for continued fractions |
| 20 May 2019 | 2pm | MS.05 | Jordan Williamson (University of Sheffield) | Constructing Algebraic Models for Equivariant Cohomology |
| Wednesday 29 May 2019 | 11am | MS.05 | Anna Parlak (University of 糖心TV) | Fibrations of a 3-manifold carried by the same veering triangulation |
| 3 June 2019 | 2pm | MS.05 | Marco Moraschini (University of Regensburg) | Simplicial volume and amenable covers |
| 10 June 2019 | 2pm | MS.05 | Lawk Mineh (University of 糖心TV) | Boundaries of Relatively Hyperbolic Groups |
| 17 June 2019 | 2pm | MS.05 | Selim Ghazouani (University of 糖心TV) | On the preciousness of linear representations |
| 24 June 2019 | 2pm | MS.05 | MurphyKate Montee (University of Chicago) | Random Groups and Cube Complexes |