Past talks:

• Monday 25 March 2024
  16:00–17:00
     Carmen Rovi (Loyola University Chicago) — Cut and paste invariants of manifolds and relations to cobordism
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• Monday 11 March 2024
  17:00–18:30
     Andreas Stavrou (University of Chicago) — Configuration spaces of surfaces and the Johnson filtration
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• Monday 18 December 2023
  15:00–16:30
     Igor Uljarević (University of Belgrade) — Size in contact geometry
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• Monday 11 December 2023
  10:00–11:30
     Daniele Celoria (University of Melbourne) — The 3D index and Dehn surgery
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• Monday 6 November 2023
  15:00–16:30
     Rinat Kashaev (Université de Genève) — Multivariable knot polynomials from Nichols algebras
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• Monday 11 – Friday 15 September 2023
  Amfiteatru "Miron Nicolescu"
     Moduli and Friends conference
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• Wednesday 26 July 2023
  15:00–16:30
  Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias"
     Alexandru Suciu (Northeastern University) — Lower central series and Alexander invariants in group extensions
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• Monday 26 June 2023
  16:00–17:30
     Piotr Pokora (University of the National Education Commission, Kraków) — On the freeness of conic-line arrangements
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• Monday 29 May 2023
  17:00–18:30
     Christine Ruey Shan Lee (Texas State University) — Stable Khovanov homology of torus links and volume
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• Monday 22 May 2023
  17:00–18:30
     Eric Rowell (Texas A&M University) — The Loop Braid Group and Charge Conserving Yang-Baxter Operators
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• Monday 8 May 2023
  15:00–16:30
     Fiona Torzewska (University of Vienna) — Motion groupoids and mapping class groupoids
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• Tuesday 7 February 2023
  16:30–18:00
     Craig Westerland (University of Minnesota) — An operadic approach to the homology of Hurwitz spaces
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• Monday 30 January 2023
  15:00–16:30
     Anca Măcinic (IMAR) — On the decomposable Orlik-Solomon algebra
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• Monday 19 December 2022
  15:00–16:30
     Luciana Basualdo Bonatto (MPIM, Bonn) — Decoupling Moduli of Configuration Spaces
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• Monday 12 December 2022
  15:00–16:30
     Cristina Palmer-Anghel (Université de Genève / IMAR) — A globalisation of the Jones and Alexander polynomials from configurations on arcs and ovals in the punctured disc
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• Monday 28 November 2022
  15:00–16:30
     Martin Palmer-Anghel (IMAR) — On the homology of big mapping class groups, II
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• Monday 21 November 2022
  15:00–16:30
     Martin Palmer-Anghel (IMAR) — On the homology of big mapping class groups, I
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• Monday 7 November 2022
  15:00–16:30
     Geoffroy Horel (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) — Binomial rings in homotopy theory
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• Monday 24 October 2022
  10:00–11:30
     Takuro Abe (Kyushu University) — Addition-restriction theorems and projective dimensions of logarithmic vector fields of hyperplane arrangements
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• Thursday 28 July 2022
  10:00–11:30
  Sala 309-310 "Gheorghe Vranceanu"
     Arthur Soulié (University of Glasgow) — The pro-nilpotent Lawrence-Krammer-Bigelow representation
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• Monday 11 July 2022
  16:00–17:30
     Ben Knudsen (Northeastern University) — Stable and unstable homology of graph braid groups
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• Monday 16 May 2022
  15:00–16:30
     Pedro Boavida de Brito (Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon) — Embeddings in Euclidean space and Galois actions
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• Monday 9 May 2022
  16:00–17:30
     Daniel López Neumann (Indiana University, Bloomington) — Genus bounds from quantum invariants
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• Monday 11 April 2022
  15:00–16:30
     Arthur Soulié (University of Glasgow) — Stable homology of mapping class groups with some particular twisted contravariant coefficients
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• Monday 21 March 2022
  15:00–16:30
     Jan Steinebrunner (University of Cambridge) — Filtering the modular surface operad
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• Monday 28 February 2022
  15:00–16:30
     Jacques Darné (UCLouvain) — Filtrations on the Mapping Class Group of the punctured sphere
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• Monday 21 February 2022
  16:30–18:00
     Jeremy Miller (Purdue University) — Exotic stabilization maps for configuration spaces
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• Tuesday 25 January 2022
  15:00–16:30
     Sam Nariman (Purdue University) — Bounded and unbounded cohomology of diffeomorphism and homeomorphism groups
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• Tuesday 11 January 2022
  15:00–16:30
     Federico Cantero (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) — Steenrod operations in Khovanov homology
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• Tuesday 7 December 2021
  15:00–16:30
     Xiaolei Wu (Fudan University, Shanghai) — Homological stability for the ribbon Higman-Thompson groups
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• Tuesday 30 November 2021
  15:00–16:30
     Andrea Bianchi (University of Copenhagen) — Partially multiplicative quandles and generalised Hurwitz spaces
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• Tuesday 16 November 2021
  15:00–16:30
     Fathi Ben Aribi (Université Catholique de Louvain) — Link invariants from L²-Burau maps of braids
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• Tuesday 2 November 2021
  15:00–16:30
     Florian Kranhold (Universität Bonn) — Vertical configuration spaces and their homological stability
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• Wednesday 30 June 2021
  15:00–16:30
     Geoffroy Horel (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) — Configuration spaces and embedding calculus, II
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  16:30–18:00
     Cristina Palmer-Anghel (University of Oxford / IMAR) — Quantum invariants via the topology of configuration spaces, II: 3-manifold invariants
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• Thursday 17 June 2021
  15:00–16:30
     Geoffroy Horel (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) — Configuration spaces and embedding calculus, I
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  16:30–18:00
     Cristina Palmer-Anghel (University of Oxford / IMAR) — Quantum invariants via the topology of configuration spaces, I: Link invariants
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• Wednesday 9 June 2021
  15:00–16:30
     Anca Măcinic (IMAR) — Line arrangements, some combinatorial perspectives, II
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  16:30–18:00
     Martin Palmer-Anghel (IMAR) — Moduli spaces and homological stability phenomena, II
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• Wednesday 26 May 2021
  15:00–16:30
     Anca Măcinic (IMAR) — Line arrangements, some combinatorial perspectives, I
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  16:30–18:00
     Martin Palmer-Anghel (IMAR) — Moduli spaces and homological stability phenomena, I
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