Conference / Seminar Talks

These are notes I took in some of the conferences / seminars I attended. They're not necessarily pretty / readable. But hey - if you're reading this, you probably don't care :P If you notice something mathematically incorrect, please let me know! 

• Midwest Summer School in Topology and Dynamics (UW Madison, June 2025).

  • Discrete subgroups of Lie groups - Matthew Stover.

• UB Topology Seminar, Spring 2025.

  • Morse boundaries of CAT(0) cubical groups - Carolyn Abbott.

• Riverside GGT (UC Riverside, 2024).

  • Boundaries of hyperbolic groups and their metrics - Emily Stark.

  • Constructing hyperbolic and injective spaces via walls - Abdul Zalloum.

  • Hyperbolicity, random walks and counting - Inhyeok Choi.

• Young Geometric Group Theorists (University of Bristol, 2024).

  • Hyperbolic actions of the Thompson's group - Francesco Fournier-Facio. 

  • Coarse embeddings between groups - Romain Tessera. 

  • Groups, 3-manifolds and Anosov-like actions - Katie Mann.

  • Genericity of Pseudo-Anosov mapping classes - Inhyeok Choi.

  • Using logic to study homeomorphisms - Thomas Koberda.

  • (Strong) Asphericity of (Cubical) Presentations - Macarena Arenas.

  • Boundaries of groups - Kim Ruane.

  • Cube complexes and groups - Mark Hagen.

• UB Topology Seminar, Spring 2024.

  • Counting Arcs of the same type - Marie Trin.

  • Profinite Rigidity of some Hyperbolic 3-manifold groups - Tam Cheetham-West.

  • (Non)-recognizing spaces for Stable subgroups - Johanna Mangahas-Kutluhan

• 1, 2, 3: Curves, Surfaces and 3-manifolds (Haifa, May 2023).

  • Hyperbolic 3-manifolds: Kenneth Bromberg (University of Utah) and Autumn Kent (University of Wisconsin) 

  • The influence of the Curve Complex: Mladen Bestvina (University of Utah) and Alessandro Sisto (Heriot-Watt University)

  • Big Mapping Class Groups: Camille Horbez (CNRS - Universite Paris-Saclay) and Kathryn Mann (Cornell University)