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 17 or 18, Grzegorz Muszynski
• October 23, Agnès Beaudry
• 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