CSU Topology Seminar

This is seminar at Colorado State University for those interested in topology and its applications.

Fall 2018 (Tuesdays at 4pm in WB 223, unless noted otherwise)

August 21, organizational meeting
August 28, Bernd Sturmfels, Learning algebraic varieties from samples (AATRN seminar, at an unusual time 11:00am, in Morgan 172)
September 4, Joshua Mirth, Morse theory
September 11, Joshua Mirth, Discrete Morse theory
September 18, Grzegorz Muszynski, Towards topological pattern detection methods in spatiotemporal data
September 25, Amit Patel, Multidimensional persistence
October 2, Chris Peterson, Multiparameter persistence
October 9, Alex McCleary, Magnitude homology
October 16, Tanner Strunk, Applied vector bundles
October 23, Agnès Beaudry, The Linearization Conjecture
October 30, Mark Blumstein, Introduction to Lie groups and principal bundles
November 6, Mark Blumstein, Principal bundles and Chern-Weil theory
November 13, Henry Adams, Lovasz' proof of the Kneser conjecture
December 4, Ezra Miller (AATRN seminar, at an unusual time 11:00am, in Morgan 172)

Spring 2018

January 30, Mark Blumstein, An introduction to equivariant cohomology I
February 6, Mark Blumstein, An introduction to equivariant cohomology II
February 20, Topology Day at CU Boulder
February 27, Tom Needham, Injectivity properties of distance distributions
March 6, Amit Patel, Applications of merge trees and Reeb graphs
March 20, Amit Patel, Homology with twisted coefficients
March 27, Greg Henselman, Combinatorics and Computation in Topological Data Analysis
April 10, Chad Topaz, Topological data analysis of collective motion
April 17, Amit Patel, Cosheaf homology
April 24, Henry Adams, An introduction to homotopy colimits
May 1, Henry Adams, Using homotopy colimits to understand infinite simplicial complexes

Fall 2017

September 5, Amit Patel, The theory of persistence I
September 12, Amit Patel, The theory of persistence II
September 19, Amit Patel, The theory of persistence III
September 26, Henry Adams, An introduction to Vietoris-Rips and Cech complexes I
October 3, Joshua Mirth, Metric thickenings of Euclidean submanifolds
October 10, Henry Adams, Vietoris-Rips complexes of the circle
October 31, Amit Patel, Tubular neighborhoods for Whitney stratified spaces
November 7, Henry Kvinge, An introduction to Khovanov homology I
November 14, Henry Kvinge, An introduction to Khovanov homology II
November 28, Dustin Sauriol, Leray spectral sequences I
December 5, Dustin Sauriol, Leray spectral sequences II