- Alan Logan
Tuesday 1st April 2025, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Fry Building, 2.04 - John Mackay
Tuesday 29th April 2025, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Fry Building, 2.04 - Alexandre Martin
Tuesday 6th May 2025, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Fry Building, 2.04
Past Seminars:
- David Aulicino
Siegel-Veech Constants of Cyclic Covers of Generic Translation Surfaces
Tuesday 25th March 2025 - Panos Papasoglu
Coarse Geometry and Graph Theory
Tuesday 18th March 2025 - Ana Lecuona
Fibered ribbon pretzel knots - what we know and what we want to know
Tuesday 11th March 2025 - Eleftherios Kastis *note unusual room*
Spanning disks in triangulated surfaces and rigidity on few locations
Tuesday 4th March 2025 - Sebastian Chenery
Gyration Stability for Projective Planes
Tuesday 25th February 2025 - Ashot Minasyan
Property Pnai and C*-simplicity of 1-relator groups
Tuesday 18th February 2025 - Mark Hagen
Cutting up free-by-cyclic groups
Tuesday 11th February 2025 - Nicolas Vaskou
Artin groups and the isomorphism problem
Tuesday 4th February 2025 - Stefanie Zbinden
The contraction space and its applications
Tuesday 28th January 2025 - Stephen Cantrell
Marked length spectrum rigidity from the perspective of geometric group theory
Tuesday 21st January 2025 - Shaked Bader
Quasi-isometric embeddings of RAAGs
Tuesday 3rd December 2024 - Macarena Arenas
Taut smoothings and shortest geodesics
Tuesday 26th November 2024 - Alan McLeay
Small covers of Big surfaces
Tuesday 19th November 2024 - Diego Corro
Singular Riemannian foliations as a notion of generalized symmetry
Tuesday 12th November 2024 - Sam Fisher *note unusual time*
Free-by-(poly)cyclic groups
Tuesday 5th November 2024 - Tudur Lewis *note unusual time*
Nielsen Realization for Rational 4-Manifolds
Tuesday 29th October 2024 - Giovanni Italiano
The Dehn function of subgroups of direct products of free groups
Tuesday 22nd October 2024 - Giorgio Mangioni
Rigidity properties of mapping class groups and their random quotients
Tuesday 15th October 2024 - Harry Petyt
Coarse-geometric obstructions to cubulation
Tuesday 8th October 2024 - Joseph MacManus
Coarse characterisations of planarity in Cayley graphs
Tuesday 1st October 2024 - Viveka Erlandsson
Long random multi-curves
Tuesday 24th September 2024 - Sam Freedman
Periodic Points on Veech Surfaces
Tuesday 17th September 2024 - Cornelia Drutu
Understanding infinite groups via their actions on Banach spaces
Tuesday 4th June 2024 - Rohini Ramadas
Thurston theory in complex dynamics: a tropical perspective
Tuesday 21st May 2024 - Matthew Tointon
Scaling limits of vertex-transitive graphs of polynomial size or polynomial growth
Tuesday 14th May 2024 - Romain Tessera
Balls in groups: volume, structure and growth
Tuesday 7th May 2024 - Laura Ciobanu
Conjugacy growth in (some Artin) groups
Tuesday 30th April 2024 - David Hume
A coarse geometric approach to graph layout problems
Tuesday 23rd April 2024 - Tommaso Cremaschi
Big and small surfaces and Nielsen-Thurston Classification problems
Tuesday 16th April 2024 - Matthew Cordes
Geometric approximate group theory
Tuesday 19th March 2024 - Alex Evetts
Growth of subsets
Tuesday 12th March 2024 - Ido Grayevsky
Sublinear rigidity of lattices in semisimple Lie groups
Tuesday 5th March 2024 - David Hume *cancelled*
A coarse geometric approach to graph layout problems
Tuesday 27th February 2024 - Anna Pratoussevitch
Ultra-parallel complex hyperbolic triangle groups
Tuesday 20th February 2024 - Samantha Pilgrim
Asymptotic Invariants and Hurewicz-type Theorems
Tuesday 13th February 2024 - Matthew Tointon *cancelled*
Scaling limits of vertex-transitive graphs of polynomial size or polynomial growth
Tuesday 6th February 2024 - Karen Vogtmann *note unusual time, joint with Algebra seminar*
Finite groups of outer automorphisms of right-angled Artin groups
Tuesday 30th January 2024 - Arman Darbinyan
A quasi-isometrically diverse class of bi-orderable solvable and residually finite groups via Taut Dehn spectra
Tuesday 23rd January 2024 - Robert Kropholler
Folding-like techniques for CAT(0) cube complexes
Tuesday 12th December 2023 - Vladimir Vankov
L-infinity cohomology of groups
Tuesday 5th December 2023 - Marco Linton
The coherence of one-relator groups
Tuesday 28th November 2023 - Rachael Boyd
Classifying spaces for 3-manifold diffeomorphisms
Tuesday 21st November 2023 - Peter Feller
The Dehn twist coefficient and irrational rotation behaviour
Tuesday 14th November 2023 - Marc Lackenby
Counting incompressible surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Tuesday 7th November 2023 - John Mackay
Asymptotic dimension for covers with controlled growth
Tuesday 31st October 2023 - Monika Kudlinksa
Subgroup separability in 3-manifold and free-by-cyclic groups
Tuesday 24th October 2023 - William Cohen
3-manifold groups acting acylindrically on trees
Tuesday 17th October 2023 - David Sheard
Reflection and Nielsen equivalence in Coxeter groups
Tuesday 10th October 2023 - Mark Pengitore
Residual finiteness growth functions of surface groups with respect to characteristic quotients
Tuesday 3rd October 2023 - Samantha Fairchild
Pairs in discrete lattice surfaces with applications to Veech surfaces
Tuesday 6th June 2023 - Nóra Szakács
Inverse semigroups as metric spaces, and their uniform Roe algebras
Tuesday 2nd May 2023 - Rachael Boyd *cancelled*
Embedding spaces of split links
Tuesday 25th April 2023 - Gemma Crowe
Conjugacy, languages and groups
Tuesday 18th April 2023 - Richard Webb
A new approach for homeomorphisms of surfaces
Tuesday 14th March 2023 - Adele Jackson
Triangulations of Seifert fibered spaces
Tuesday 7th March 2023 - David Hume
Thick topological embeddings of graphs into symmetric spaces
Tuesday 28th February 2023 - George Kontogeorgiou
Discrete group actions on 3-manifolds and embeddable Cayley complexes
Tuesday 14th February 2023 - Laura Monk
Counting non-simple geodesics on random hyperbolic surfaces
Tuesday 7th February 2023 - Davide Spriano
Hyperbolic models for CAT(0) spaces
Tuesday 31st January 2023 - Michael Magee
The maximal spectral gap of a hyperbolic surface
Tuesday 24th January 2023 - Constantin Vernicos
Flag Approximability of convex bodies and volume entropy of Hilbert geometries
Tuesday 13th December 2022 - Martin de Borbon
Polyhedral Kahler cone metrics on Cn
Tuesday 6th December 2022 - Mingkun Liu
Random multi-geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces of large genus
Tuesday 29th November 2022 - Sean Dewar
Homothetic packings of centrally symmetric convex bodies
Tuesday 22nd November 2022 - Bradley Zykoski
A polytopal decomposition of strata of translation surfaces
Wednesday 16th November 2022 - Robert Suzzi Valli
Combinatorial Growth of Reciprocal Geodesics in the Modular Group
Tuesday 15th November 2022 - Bin Sun
L2-Betti numbers of fiber bundles
Tuesday 8th November 2022 - Jacob Russell
Purely pseudo-Anosov subgroups of fibered 3-manifold groups
Tuesday 1st November 2022 - Macarena Arenas
A cubical Rips construction
Tuesday 25th October 2022 - Gianluca Faraco
Period realisation of meromorphic differentials
Tuesday 18th October 2022 - Patrick Nairne
Obstructions to embeddings between trees
Tuesday 11th October 2022 - Mark Hagen
Separability (and mapping class groups)
Tuesday 4th October 2022 - Anthony Sanchez *note the unusual day and time*
Kontsevich-Zorich monodromy groups of translation covers of some platonic solids
Wednesday 28th September 2022 - Marie Trin
Thurston’s compactification via geodesic currents: the case of non-compact finite area surfaces
Tuesday 13th September 2022 - John Parker
Complex Hyperbolic Lattices
Tuesday 31st May 2022 - Chandrika Sadanand
Heegaard splittings and square complexes
Tuesday 24th May 2022 - Rhiannon Dougall
Counting Limit Theorems for Anosov Representations
Tuesday 24th May 2022 - Lars Louder
Negative immersions and coherence of (most) one-relator groups
Tuesday 17th May 2022 - Anna Parlak
Pseudo-Anosov flows and twisted Alexander polynomials
Tuesday 10th May 2022 - Jone Lopez de Gamiz
Limit groups over coherent RAAGs and their subgroups.
Tuesday 3rd May 2022 - Olga Paris-Romaskevich
Novikov’s problem and tiling billiards
Tuesday 29th March 2022 - Jenya Sapir
A projection from geodesic currents to Teichmuller space
Tuesday 22nd March 2022 - Sam Hughes
Hierarchical hyperbolicity versus biautomaticity
Tuesday 15th March 2022 - Mehdi Yazdi
Upper bound for distance in the pants graph
Tuesday 8th March 2022 - Anja Randecker
Saddle connection complex: coarse and fine
Tuesday 1st March 2022 - Dmitri Panov
Moduli of spherical tori with one conical point
Tuesday 22nd February 2022 - Feng Zhu
Equidistribution and counting in Hilbert geometry
Tuesday 15th February 2022 - Sam Corson
A space which is slightly connected and very thick
Tuesday 8th February 2022 - Lei Chen
Actions of Homeo and Diffeo groups on manifolds
Tuesday 1st February 2022 - Thomas Haettel
Group actions on Helly graphs and injective metric spaces
Tuesday 14th December 2021 - Tarik Aougab
Dilatation for random point-pushing pseudo-Anosovs
Tuesday 7th December 2021 - Marissa Loving
End-periodic homeomorphisms and volumes of mapping tori
Tuesday 30th November 2021 - Daniel Berlyne
Non-positive curvature in graph braid groups
Tuesday 23rd November 2021 - Yvon Verberne
Automorphisms of the fine curve graph
Tuesday 16th November 2021 - Radhika Gupta
Relating polynomial invariants of free-by-cyclic groups
Tuesday 9th November 2021 - Emily Shinkle
Finite Rigid Sets for Combinatorial Complexes Associated to Surfaces
Tuesday 2nd November 2021 - Abdul Zalloum
Hyperplanes all over the place
Tuesday 26th October 2021 - Arnaud Maret
Remarkable surface group representations in genus zero
Tuesday 19th October 2021 - Aitor Azemar
A qualitative description of the horoboundary of the Teichmüller metric
Tuesday 12th October 2021 - Fanny Kassel
Convex cocompactness and Coxeter groups
Tuesday 25th May 2021 - Alice Kerr
Quasi-trees and product set growth
Tuesday 18th May 2021 - Vincent Delecroix
Random multicurves in high genera
Tuesday 11th May 2021 - Anton Zorich
Count of simple closed geodesics on Riemann surfaces
Tuesday 4th May 2021 - Leonid Monin
Hyperelliptic curves with many automorphisms and triangular billiards
Tuesday 27th April 2021 - Michelle Chu
Prescribed virtual torsion in the homology of 3-manifolds
Tuesday 20th April 2021 - Johan Taflin
Attractors in holomorphic dynamics
Tuesday 13th April 2021 - Carolyn Abbott
Random walks and quasiconvexity in acylindrically hyperbolic groups
Tuesday 23rd March 2021 - Chandrika Sadanand
Hyperbolic surfaces with cone points and polygonal billiards
Tuesday 16th March 2021 - Hugo Parlier
Curves, surfaces and intersection
Tuesday 9th March 2021 - Arielle Leitner
Deformations of Generalized Cusps on Convex Projective Manifolds
Tuesday 2nd March 2021 - Rylee Lyman
Folding-like Techniques for CAT(0) Cube Complexes
Tuesday 23rd February 2021 - Didac Martinez Granado
Geodesic currents and the smoothing property
Monday 15th February 2021 - Rose Morris-Wright
A Deligne Complex for Artin Monoids (Based on joint work with Rachael Boyd and Ruth Charney)
Tuesday 9th February 2021 - Dusa McDuff
The symplectic embedding problem
Tuesday 26th January 2021 - Marissa Miller
Geometry of the genus two handlebody group
Tuesday 19th January 2021 - Yulan Qing
Sublinearly Morse Boundary of Groups
Tuesday 12th January 2021 - Nima Hoda
Strongly shortcut spaces
Tuesday 15th December 2020 - Nick Wilkins
A construction of Steenrod squares and their quantum counterparts
Tuesday 8th December 2020 - Joseph Wells
Complex hyperbolic hybrids
Tuesday 1st December 2020 - Lorenzo Ruffoni *note unusual day and time*
Projective structures, representations, and ODEs on surfaces.
Monday 23rd November 2020 - David Hume *note unusual day and time*
Geometry of acylindrically hyperbolic groups
Monday 16th November 2020 - Jean-Pierre Mutanguha
Finding relative immersions of free groups
Tuesday 10th November 2020 - Jing Tao
Polygons, Horogons, and the Nielsen-Thurston Classification Theorem
Tuesday 3rd November 2020 - Aaron Fenyes
Hyperbolic surfaces as singular flat surfaces
Tuesday 27th October 2020 - Luke Jeffreys
The statistical hyperbolicity of Teichmüller space
Tuesday 20th October 2020
