• Freeways and Circle Packing

    Argue Auditorium, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

    The beauty of mathematics is often encountered when one discovers that two apparently very different phenomena actually share a common origin. I will discuss such a surprising connection between two […]

  • Topology Seminar: Mauricio Gomez Lopez (U. Oregon)

    Title: Cobordism Categories and Spaces of Manifolds. Abstract: Cobordisms have been one of the central objects in topology since the pioneering work of Rene Thom, which provided the first link between manifolds and homotopy theory. In more recent years, there has been much focus on cobordism categories. These play a fundamental role in the study […]

  • Formal geometry and characteristic classes

    I plan to explain how a purely algebraic technique involving Lie Algebra Cohomology can be used to construct standard characteristic classes of vector bundles and foliations (in fact, it could be tweaked to give most characteristic classes in differential and complex geometry).

  • Magnitude meets persistence. What happens after?

    Argue Auditorium, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

    The magnitude is an isometric invariant of metric spaces that was introduced by Tom Leinster in 2010, and is currently the object of intense research, as it has been shown to encode many invariants of a metric space such as volume, dimension, and capacity. When studying a metric space in topological data analysis using persistent […]