Archive

Here are recordings of keynote talks from last year. For detailed archives that include previous conference websites with student talk abstracts, visit the complete archive.

2025

2024

• • Sarah Koch, Complex Dynamics: the Real Story

  • Nick Miller, A Gentle Introduction to Superrigidity

2023

• • Jen Hom, Knots, groups and 3-manifolds

  • Craig Sutton, The Mighty Laplacian and Symmetry

  • John Voight, Effective methods in inverse Galois theory

2022

• Francesco Lin, Floer Theoretic Invariants of Three-Manifolds their Localization

2021

• Moira Chas, Lie algebras related to curves on surfaces

• Shelly Harvey, When are links weakly concordant to boundary links

• Diane Maclagan, Tropical Geometry and Tropical Schemes

• Davi Maximo, On the geometry and topology of 3-manifolds with positive scalar curvature

2019

• Dusa McDuff, Embedding problems in symplectic geometry

• Mona Merling, Algebraic K-theory and group actions

• Priyam Patel, Mapping class groups of infinite-type surfaces and their actions on hyperbolic graphs

• Ravi Vakil, The space of vector bundles on spheres

2018

• Kathryn Mann, Foliated bundles, boundary actions, and rigidity

• Daniel Krashen, Some Topological Viewpoints on Algebraic Structures

• Jean-Francois Lafont, An introduction to K-theory and the isomorphism conjectures

• Helen Wong, Quantum topology, hyperbolic geometry and the Kauffman bracket skein algebra of a surface

2017

• Holly Krieger, Unlikely intersections in complex dynamics

• Spencer Dowdall, Hyperbolic geometry in group extensions

• Emily Peters, Proof by pictures

• Renato Bettoil, Deforming flat manifolds and flat orbifolds

2016

• Jordan Ellenberg, Configurations, arithmetic groups, cohomology, and stability

• Elisenda Grigsby, Braids, complex geometry, and homology-type invariants

• Zajj Daugherty, Representation theory and combinatorics of diagram algebras

• Alan Reid, Arithmetic link complements