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 tentative time for the seminar is Wednesday's at 2pm GMT, starting in June. This might however change throughout the summer, so we encourage anyone who might be interested in attending, to fill out the sign up form, which also includes a section where you can tell us when you are available.
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to one of the organizers: Julie Rasmusen or Zack Garza.
Schedule
The schedule for the summer 2024 is not yet fixed, but can be found here when it's available.
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!
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.
Links to seminar in previous years:
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