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We are delighted to announce the Talbot Workshop 2025, mentored by Alexander Kupers and Nathalie Wahl! Please see below for the details of the workshop and a link to the application.

Please share this message with anyone you think would benefit from attending.

Best regards, The Talbot Workshop organizers (Maxine Calle, Alex Karapetyan, and Eunice Sukarto)

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2025 Talbot Workshop: Homological Stability Mentored by: Alexander Kupers and Nathalie Wahl Dates: May 26 - June 1, 2025 Location: TBA, but somewhere in the US

Application link: https://forms.gle/KaStAZurFQ5LDB1z5 Application deadline: Feb 2, 2025 More details can be found on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/talbotworkshop/home

What: The Talbot Workshop is a one week learning workshop for roughly 35 graduate students and a few postdocs. Most of the talks will be given by participants, and will be expository in nature.

Topic description: Many groups and spaces come in families depending on a parameter: configuration spaces depend on the number of points considered, mapping class groups of surfaces on the genus of the surface. For such families, it often happens that the homology stabilizes as this parameter goes to infinity. Moreover, computing the stable homology frequently turns out to be easier because other tools can be used. In recent years, combining homological stability results with stable computations has become a powerful tool in algebraic topology and robust machinery for proving homological stability theorems has been developed. In this workshop we aim to introduce the participants to this circle of ideas.

Outline: This workshop will explain how to prove homological stability results through examples, such as symmetric groups, configuration spaces, mapping class groups, and others, and how to use them in conjunction with stable computations. The homological stability machines that we will cover are Quillen’s classical inductive approach and a more recent approach using Ek-algebras. Both machines have as input connectivity results for simplicial complexes and we will also see how such results are proved.

Background: The workshop will be aimed towards graduate students with a basic understanding of algebraic topology, including spectral sequences and classifying spaces.

Talbot is meant to encourage collaboration among young researchers, with an emphasis on graduate students. We also aim to gather participants with a diverse array of knowledge and interests, so applicants need not be an expert in the field -- in particular, students at all levels of graduate education are encouraged to apply. As we are committed to promoting diversity in mathematics, we especially encourage women, minorities, and underrepresented groups in mathematics to apply.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email the organizers at talbotworkshop (at) gmail (dot) com.

GTA Philadelphia 2025 is the 10th annual Graduate Student Conference in Algebra, Geometry, and Topology (GSCAGT), to be held on-campus at Temple University in Philadelphia from Friday, May 30 to Sunday, June 1, 2025. This conference aims to expose graduate students in algebra, geometry, and topology to current research, and provide them with an opportunity to present and discuss their own research. It also intends to provide a forum for graduate students to engage with each other as well as expert faculty members in their areas of research. Most of the talks at the conference will be given by graduate students, with four given by distinguished keynote speakers. This event is sponsored by the Temple University Graduate School, Temple University Department of Mathematics, and the NSF.

Keynote Speakers

• Samit Dasgupta, Duke University
• Marissa Loving, University of Wisconsin
• André Arroja Neves, University of Chicago
• Tian Yang, Texas A&M University

To register and get more information, see: https://cst.temple.edu/department-mathematics/events/gscagt-2024/gcsagt-2025

The summer school is aimed at graduate students in low-dimensional topology. The goal is to make students familiar with the novel techniques in the field that have led to recent advances in our understanding of four-dimensional manifolds.

The program will consist of four mini-courses of 5 lectures each, all accompanied by discussion sessions:

1. Skein lasagna modules (by Mike Willis and Melissa Zhang)
2. Real Seiberg-Witten theory (by Hokuto Konno and Ian Montague)
3. Kontsevich invariants from configuration spaces (by Jianfeng Lin and Danica Kosanovic)
4. Lefschetz fibrations and closed exotic 4-manifolds (by Andras Stipsicz and Zoltan Szabo)

This conference has been organized around the general trend of application of geometrical ideas in mechanics, physics and biology. The emphasis is on concrete applications and modern developments in the respective fields. An overall idea is to provide a forum for an exchange of information, ideas and inspiration and further development of the international collaboration.

This conference is addressed to mathematicians and mathematical physicists interested in contemporary mechanics, physics and biology and associated mathematical questions. The application of differential geometry to find new results on manifolds, relativity, hypersurfaces, N-body problem, gauge fields, geometric quantization, rotational sequences, minimal surfaces, biophysical systems, coherent states, Dirac and Seiberg-Witten monopoles, rigid body dynamics, Toda chains dynamics, geometric algebra, Kähler calculus, thermodynamics, etc. The meeting allows participants coming from different fields to share and to interchange geometrical ideas among them with the leading role of differential geometry. The contributions presented at the conference will be invited to be submitted to the series on Geometry, Integrability and Quantization or to the Journal of Geometry and Symmetry in Physics.

This is a graduate student workshop on discrete groups in topology and algebraic geometry. This includes topics like fundamental groups of varieties and mapping class groups. This is the second week of a three week long thematic program. The conference the following week may also be of interest to graduate students.

Conference Quasiweekend III - Twenty years on collects together experts, from all fields of mathematics, using quasiconformal methods, especially in complex dynamics, geometric function theory, geometric group theory, analysis on metric spaces. Previous conferences in this series, Quasiweekend and Quasiweekend II – Ten years after, took place in 2005 and 2015, respectively, in Helsinki. With Quasiweekend III we celebrate mathematical legacy of Juha Heinonen -- initiator of this conference series -- in the broad field of quasiconformal analysis.

The conference will consist of several research talks on topics of current interest in low dimensional topology, including four-manifolds, knot invariants, categorification, gauge theory, and connections to physics.

Confirmed conference speakers: Mina Aganagić, UC Berkeley Aleksei Andreev, U. Zurich William Ballinger, Harvard Inanc Baykur, U Mass Amherst Valentina Bias, SISSA Trieste Eugene Gorsky, UC Davis Matthew Hogancamp, Northeastern Sungkyung Kang, Oxford Marc Lackenby, Oxford Jiakai Li, Harvard Cristina Palmer-Anghel, U. Leeds Qianhe Qin, Stanford Qiuyu Ren, UC Berkeley Alexander Schmidhuber, MIT Masaki Taniguchi, Kyoto University Laura Wakelin, King's College Paul Wedrich, U. Hamburg

The Erlangen AI Hub Conference will bring together leading minds from across UK’s mathematical, algorithmic and computational communities to advance the application of pure mathematics in AI. Join us and be a part of our exciting programme that aims to unite and revolutionise the mathematical field to unlock new and improved AI systems.

Registration includes access to a series of plenary and short talks across the three-day event. Lunch and refreshments will also be provided. 

Date: 9-11 June 2025

Venue: Maths Building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS 

Registration deadline: 23 May 2025 (12 noon)

General admission: £85 Conference dinner: £70 

The Erlangen AI Hub is one of nine AI research hubs across the UK funded by EPSRC as part of a major £80 million investment to develop next-generation AI technologies. The hub brings together leading research teams from the University of Oxford, Durham University, Imperial College London, Queen Mary University of London, the University of Aberdeen, and the University of Southampton.

The workshop programming begins at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 12, and ends at noon on Saturday, June 14. Each day there will be a one-hour lecture by Principal Speaker Danny Calegari as well as contributed talks by participants. The program is designed so there will be ample time for informal networking among participants. The workshop ends with a problem session at noon on Saturday.

The 42nd Annual Workshop in Geometric Topology is supported by the National Science Foundation grant no. 2350374. Financial support may be available to cover partial travel and living expenses of participants who do not have other funding for their research. Such support can be requested on the conference website. To receive full consideration, requests for support should be submitted by April 20, 2025. Graduate students and recent PhDs in geometric topology are especially encouraged to apply. Requests for contributed talks should be submitted by May 20, 2025.

This is a conference on discrete groups in topology and algebraic geometry, which includes topics like fundamental groups of varieties and mapping class groups. This is the third week of a thematic program on the topic.

Chromatic homotopy theory decomposes stable homotopy theory into an infinite sequence of periodic strata, each of which has the potential to be completely computable. These ideas were made precise by the Ravenel Conjectures, which were famously solved by various combinations of Devinatz, Hopkins, Smith, and Ravenel in the decade which followed, except for one: the Telescope Conjecture. This conjecture eluded resolution until 2023, when it was shown to be false by Burklund-Hahn-Levy-Schlank. The disproof involved the discovery of a new and unexpected interface between algebraic K-theory and chromatic homotopy theory which augmented an existing and growing understanding of relationship between these two subjects as witnessed by the Quillen-Lichtenbaum Conjecture, Thomason's Descent Theorem, and the Rognes Redshift Conjecture.

The aim of this workshop is to address the question "what next?". We aim to explore this question narrowly (what does the failure of the telescope conjecture say about v_n-periodic homotopy groups?) and broadly (what are the next horizons for homotopy theory/algebraic topology/K-theory now that this major problem has been solved?). The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers in chromatic homotopy theory, algebraic K-theory, and a variety of other neighboring areas to address these questions.

Travel support is available for US based participants thanks to the National Science Foundation.

Application details Deadline for applications: 30 Mar 2025

The goal of this conference is to bring together experts from algebraic and arithmetic geometry on the one hand and étale and stratified homotopy theory on the other. There will be a mini-course on each side to get people up to speed, as well as research talks covering recent developments on étale cohomology, étale homotopy, and related topics.

Join us for a five-day workshop hosted by UT Austin, with support from the NSF. Mornings will be dedicated to talks, and in the afternoons, participants will work in small groups on open problems related to connections between 4-manifold trisections and diffeomorphism groups. The workshop will be preceded by introductory mini-courses on Zoom taking place on June 18 and June 20. Participants may register for either or both workshop components. The workshop will conclude at noon on Friday, 6/27. Participation is by application, and the priority deadline for funding is April 7.

This conference aims to bring together early career researchers in geometric group theory, arithmetic geometry and analysis of PDEs, who will also have the opportunity to present their own results. In mostly parallel sessions, we will provide a stimulating environment for collaboration and scientific interaction between young participants and senior speakers, including:

Caterina Campagnolo (Autonomous University of Madrid), Bianca Marchionna (Heidelberg University), Maria Rosaria Pati (University of Genova), Hanneke Wiersema (University of Cambridge), Camilla Nobili (University of Surrey), Mikaela Iacobelli (ETH Zürich), Lara Gildehaus (University of Klagenfurt).

In addition to the mathematical presentations, we will also feature a lecture on gender equality in academic contexts and a career panel.

Everyone - not only women! - is welcome to participate! You can on our website! Limited fundings for travel and accommodation are available. The deadline for contributed talks and financial support is April 30th 2025.

More info and details on the structure of the conference can be found at our website. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us at [email protected].

The conference will reflect current developments in motivic homotopy theory and its applications in arithmetic geometry and geometric representation theory. It aims to bring together experts from these fields to facilitate the exchange of ideas in a collaborative and engaging environment.

The Annual International Conference of the Georgian Mathematical Union was established in 2010 and has been held traditionally at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. Batumi is the city of Georgia and the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara. It is located along the coast of the Black Sea in the southwest region of Georgia. In accordance with recent developments, the conference has been conducted in a hybrid format since 2021.

The purpose of the conference is to bring together mathematicians from various fields to present their original research results and provide opportunities to establish new connections within the fields of pure and applied mathematics, as well as science, engineering, and technology. The conference also provides valuable networking opportunities for you to meet great personnel in these fields.

The workshop focuses on the interplay between 3-manifold topology and geometry, the study of 3-manifold groups, and character and representation varieties, with connections to computational topology and theoretical computer science. Related topics are also welcome! This two-day event will feature introductory lectures, in-depth research talks, lightning talks, and dedicated discussion sessions. Our goal is to foster a stimulating environment by bringing together participants at various career stages, along with many local researchers.

This 2-day special session will be dedicated to a range of mathematical problems related to motion planning algorithms and their properties. A central role is played by the notion of topological complexity (TC), which is a homotopy invariant depending only on the configuration space of the robot that can be studied using diverse tools from a variety of fields, such as geometry, topology, algebra, combinatorics, etc. This session on theoretical and applied aspects of TC and related sectional category invariants aims to bring together scientists from all over the world working on different aspects of motion planning and TC and foster collaboration among them, expose graduate students and junior colleagues to these rich and fascinating areas of research, and identify directions for future work and interaction in these areas.

This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will be devoted to recent advances in computing the stable homotopy groups of spheres. The last 10 years have seen significant progress in this area, driven first by applications of motivic homotopy theory and then more recently by the invention of synthetic/filtered spectra, which generalizes motivic techniques. Last year, Weinan Lin, Guozhen Wang, and Zhouli Xu significantly extended the known range of stable homotopy groups and used these computations to resolve the remaining case of the Kervaire Invariant One problem, which has remained open for about 60 years. This workshop will focus on the advances that made these computations possible, especially those involving machine computations and synthetic techniques, and look for applications of these new techniques, for example to the equivariant slice spectral sequence.

IEEE VIS Workshop on Topological Data Analysis and Visualization (TopoInVis 2025) Co-located with IEEE VIS 2025 - Vienna, Austria, 2-7 November

Call for Contributions

Topological methods have become an established framework for the extraction and analysis of structural patterns in complex data. It has been successfully applied in a variety of application fields, including quantum chemistry, astrophysics, fluid dynamics, combustion, material sciences, biology, and data science. In particular, the genericity, efficiency, and robustness of topological methods have made them particularly well suited for the multi-scale, interactive analysis and visualization of the underlying structural information of data.

Despite their rising mainstream popularity, topological methods still face a number of challenges, including, for instance, efficient computational methods for large-scale time-varying data, the characterization of noise and uncertainty, or the support of emerging data types, such as ensemble data or high-dimensional point clouds.

The IEEE VIS Workshop on Topological Data Analysis and Visualization aims to be an inclusive forum for the fast dissemination of the latest results in theory, algorithms, and applications of topological methods for the interactive and visual analysis of data. This workshop is open to members of the visualization community interested in topological methods and to experts in topological methods from other communities willing to experiment with interactive and visual applications.

The workshop welcomes submissions of both full-length papers and posters. The accepted papers will be presented during the workshop, and the accepted posters will be presented at the main poster event at VIS and give a lightning talk during the workshop.

Scope

Relevant topics include (but are not limited to): Topological methods for the analysis and visualization of all types of data, including but not limited to: Graph data Scalar, vector, tensor, multi-field data Time-series data High dimensional point cloud data Ensemble data Data with uncertainty Topological methods for data science (dimensionality reduction, clustering, etc.) Topological methods and machine learning Computational methods for topological data analysis and visualization Software systems for topological data analysis and visualization Visual analytic frameworks relying on topological methods Applications of topological data analysis and visualization

Submission

We welcome contributions as regular papers in the IEEE VGTC format (up to 9 pages of content, plus up to 2 pages of references). Paper submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international program committee, including experts in topological methods for scientific data, information visualization, visual analytics, computational geometry, computational topology, and machine learning. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

Poster contributions should adhere to the IEEE VIS Guidelines. While VIS has no specific formatting requirements, posters can be no larger than size A0 (841 x 1189 mm / 33.1 x 46.8 inches) and must be in a portrait orientation. The accepted posters will be presented at the main poster event at VIS.

Important Dates * June 14, 2025: abstract deadline for full papers * June 30, 2025: submission deadline for full papers * July 31, 2025: author notification * August 31, 2025: submission deadline for posters, lightning talks * November 2-7, 2025: IEEE VIS All deadlines are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.

Instructions for submission and further details will appear soon on the workshop website: https://topoinvis.org/

Organizing Committee:

Workshop Chairs: Divya Banesh, Los Alamos National Laboratory Federico Iuricich, Clemson University

Paper Chairs: Tobias Günther, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Yue Zhang, Oregon State University

Communications Chair: Lin Yan, Iowa State University Raghavendra Sridharamurthy, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

Contact: [email protected]