Geometry and Topology Student Seminar

Tuesdays 1:30 - 3 pm, Room 6496
Graduate Center CUNY
Seminar will also be streamed online via Zoom
(please contact the organizers for more details)


Topics: This semester, in addition to other topics, we will go through selected chapters from the book Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist edited by Matt Clay and Dan Margalit (OHGGT).

Schedule for Spring 2022


Date Speaker Topic & Reference
Feb 22nd Matt Genkin Random walk on graphs
Mar 1st Yushan Jiang Counting Simple Closed Geodesics on Closed Hyperbolic Surfaces I
Mar 8th Yushan Jiang Counting Simple Closed Geodesics on Closed Hyperbolic Surfaces II
Mar 15th No seminar
Mar 22nd Zhihao Mu Groups acting on trees OHGGT - Chapter 3
Mar 29th Michael Marinelli Many roads to two bridges
Apr 5th Connor Stewart Free groups and folding OHGGT - Chapter 4
Apr 12th Joe Boninger PhD thesis defense
Apr 19th No seminar - Spring break
Apr 26th Yassin Chandran Automorphisms of surfaces and related objects
May 3rd Eden Morris The Dehn Complex of a Knot
May 10th Ajmain Yamin A Modular Uniformization of the Heawood Map


Seminars from previous semesters: Fall 2021   Spring 2021   Fall 2020   Spring 2020   Fall 2019   Spring 2019   Fall 2018   Spring 2018   Fall 2017   Spring 2017   Fall 2016   Spring 2015   Fall 2014   Spring 2014   Fall 2013   Spring 2013   Fall 2012   Summer 2012   Winter 2012

This seminar is organized by Abhijit Champanerkar , Ilya Kofman, and Joseph Maher.
Related Seminars:
  1. CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar Tuesdays 4:15 pm.
  2. Hyperbolic Geometry Seminar Tuesdays 3-4 pm, Room 4214-03 (Thesis room).
  3. Columbia Geometric Topology Seminar Fridays 2 pm, Columbia University.