The 2025 Georgia International Topology Conference https://topology.franklinresearch.uga.edu/2025GITC will take place May 19 - May 30, 2025 at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. This will be the ninth in a series of octennial conferences at the University of Georgia that started in 1961.

We ask all participants to register at the website.

Speakers: Mohammed Abouzaid (Stanford), Ian Agol (UC Berkeley), Daniel Alvarez-Gavela (Brandeis), John Baldwin (Boston College), Rachael Boyd* (University of Glasgow), Roger Casals (UC Davis), Julian Chaidez (University of Southern California), Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner (University of Maryland), Oliver Edtmair (ETH Zurich), Tobias Ekholm (Uppsala University), Joshua Greene (Boston College), Pazit Haim-Kislev (IAS), Jonathan Hanselman (Princeton), Kristen Hendricks (Rutgers), Amanda Hirschi (Sorbonne Université), Ko Honda (UCLA), Bruce Kleiner (NYU), Hokuto Konno (University of Tokyo), Danica Kosanović (ETH Zurich), Marc Lackenby (Oxford), Joan Licata (Australian National University), Beibei Liu (Ohio State University), Bruno Martelli (Università di Pisa), Thomas Massoni (MIT), Maggie Miller (UT Austin), Allison Miller (Swarthmore College), Jin Miyazawa (Kyoto University), Lisa Piccirillo (UT Austin), Mark Powell (University of Glasgow), Alan Reid (Rice University), Semon Rezchikov (Princeton), Laura Starkston (UC Davis), Matt Stoffregen (Michigan State University), Luya Wang (IAS), Michael Willis (Texas A&M), Ian Zemke (University of Oregon) * to be confirmed

Scientific Committee: Danny Calegari (University of Chicago), David Gabai (Princeton), Ursula Hamenstädt (University of Bonn), Robert Lipshitz (University of Oregon),Rachel Roberts (Washington University), Paul Seidel (MIT), András Stipsicz (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics), Ulrike Tillmann (Oxford)

Local Organizers: Akram Alishahi, Eduardo Fernández Fuertes, David Gay, Peter Lambert-Cole, Gordana Matic, Mike Usher

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

This workshop, sponsored by AIM, the NSF, the Topos Institute, and the US NSF Center for Analysis and Prediction of Pandemic Expansion, will consider how category-theoretic foundations for modeling as decision support for multidisciplinary collaboration might advance insights into pandemic science. Multidisciplinary modeling is extremely useful and also extremely difficult (for many reasons). By taking the very concept of "building a model" as itself a sort of model, and phrasing this in the formal mathematical language of (double) category theory, we can develop systems that greatly improve our capabilities for collaborative modeling.

The workshop will bring together a wide range of research communities: category theory, software engineering, dynamical systems, data science, epidemiology, infectious disease modeling, medical geography, behavioral psychology, social and urban networks, and economics.