Preliminary announcement: StolzFest - a midwest topology seminar being organized by myself, Ryan Grady, and Chris Schommer-Pries honoring Stephan Stolz on the occasion of his retirement.

A list of speakers, as well as information on how to register and apply for support, will be forthcoming!

Calling all topologists and geometers!

We, the Topologically Allied Conference Organizers of IU Bloomington (TACOs, for short), are pleased to announce that the 2025 meeting of the Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference will be held at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana! This is the 22nd meeting of GSTGC, and it will be held from Friday, April 11 to Sunday, April 13. If you are unfamiliar, GSTGC is a conference designed by and for graduate students who are interested in topology and geometry. The conference will bring over 120 graduate students from all around the country to Bloomington, and no matter what your interests are, there will surely be both a talk that you’ll find interesting and someone else who shares those interests! There is also an opportunity for graduate students to give talks, either expositional or research (see the registration for details). If you have questions feel free to email us at [email protected]. You can find the conference website here: https://topologyandgeometry.iu.edu/gstgc25/.

Registration for the conference is now open, with a deadline of January 15, 2025. You can register at: https://topologyandgeometry.iu.edu/gstgc25/registration.html

Our plenary speakers are:

1. Sarah Koch (University of Michigan)
2. Mark Powell (University of Glasgow)
3. Inna Zakharevich (Cornell University)

In addition to our plenary speakers, we are also excited to announce the following 6 early-career speakers:

1. Agustina Czenky (University of Southern California)
2. Beibei Liu (Ohio State University)
3. Anibal M. Medina-Maradones (University of Western Ontario)
4. Maggie Miller (The University of Texas at Austin)
5. Carmen Rovi (Loyola University Chicago)
6. Roberta Shapiro (University of Michigan)

Combined, these nine speakers’ research areas cover a wide sweep of mathematics, including: topology of 4-manifolds, Bers-Teichmüller theory, scissor congruence, hyperbolic geometry, hyperbolic manifolds, topological quantum field theories, Kleinian groups, limit sets, links in 3-manifolds, applied and computational topology, homotopy theory, surgery theory, K- and L- theory, manifold theory, quantum algebra, Heegaard Floer homology, geometric group theory, and mapping class groups. There will also be at least 28 short graduate student talks to round out the weekend.

We hope to see you in Bloomington!

TACOs

Hello everyone,

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.