GROOT Summer Seminar 2024
Welcome to the Graduates Reminisce Online On Topology (GROOT) Summer Seminar.
The goal of this online seminar is to provide a regular meeting place for graduate students to share research and expository talks over the summer as well as some time to network and socialize with peers. All incoming, current, and recently graduated grad students are welcome to participate, and you can sign up here.
The seminar is on Wednesday's at 2pm GMT - Timezone conversions can be found here or at the bottom of this page.
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to one of the organizers: Julie Rasmusen or Zack Garza.
Schedule
The full schedule, including titles and abstracts, can be found here.
If you missed a talk, don't worry - many of the talks are recorded and uploaded to YouTube, and you can find the GROOT channel here!
Upcoming
July 17th: Khyathi Komalan, "Non-Hermitian Ribbon Fusion Categories"
July 24th: Sophia E Marx, "on the correspondence between 2-Segal simplicial sets and PSM's in Span"
July 31st: Si-Yang, "McKay Correspondence via Symplectic Geometry"
August 7th: Schuchen Mu, "Cyclic homology and Algebraic K-theory"
August 14th: Gabriel Longatto Clemente, TBD
August 21st: Jackson Morris, "Symplectic Orientations"
August 28th: TBD
September 4th: Noah Wisdom, "Properties and Examples of A-Landweber Exact Spectra"
September 11th: Jack Davidson, "Homological Stability in a general context "
September 18th: TBD
September 25th: TBD
Previous talks
July 10th: Torgeir Aambø, "K(n)-local synthetic spectra", Recording
July 3rd: Miika Tuominen, "Completion of $\Theta_n$-spaces", Recording
June 26th: Baylee Schutte, "Projective Span of Wall Manifolds", Recording
June 12th: Jack Romo, "Homotopy Bicategories of (∞, 2)-categories", Recording
Information for Speakers
Prepare a 50 min talk with an additional 10 min for questions. Format is completely up to you, but should be Zoom and microphone friendly.
Keep in mind participants in this seminar share a wide range of research interests. Aim to include background making your main ideas follow-able and interesting to those only vaguely familiar with your topic, while also including additional detail for more knowledgeable participants.
Log on to Zoom 5-10 minutes early so we can make sure all technology is running smoothly.
Reading topics participants have suggested for expository talks
If you are interested in giving a talk, but not sure about on which topic, then have a look at the list below of topics which participants have suggested!
Cellular (co)sheaves and filtration of mapping spaces
Derived algebraic geometry
Discrete Morse theory
Elliptic cohomology
Equivariant homotopy theory
Factorization homology
Floer homotopy theory
H - cobordism
Homotopy theory (several people have in particular mentioned stable homotopy theory)
Kervaire invariant problem
Model Independent Infinity Category Theory
Motivic homotopy theory
Operadic nerves and excicsive functors (in the equivariant setting)
Rational homotopy theory
Synthetic Spectra
Topological cyclic homology
Topological data analysis (including multidimensional TDA)
Topological robotics