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