Location: online (Zoom connection details available on request)
Time: Mondays between 15:00–16:30*(but may vary — see the individual talk announcements below)
Monday 2 February 2026 15:00–16:30* Paul Mücksch (TU Berlin) — TBA
* Note: All times are given in Eastern European Time, i.e. UTC+2 in winter and UTC+3 in summer.
Past talks:
Monday 28 July 2025 16:00–17:30
Anderson Vera (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) — Double lower central series and a double Johnson filtration for the Goeritz group of the sphere Abstract Notes
Monday 7 July 2025 15:00–16:30 Lukas Woike (Université Bourgogne Europe) — Open conformal field theories and ansular functors Abstract Notes
Monday 30 June 2025 12:00–13:30 Paolo Salvatore (University of Rome Tor Vergata) — Formality of configuration spaces and Kontsevich graphs Abstract
Monday 2 June 2025 15:00–16:30 Louis Hainaut (University of Chicago) — A classifying space for the mapping class group of 3-dimensional handlebodies Abstract Notes
Monday 26 May 2025 15:00–16:30 Takuro Abe (Rikkyo University) — Tame arrangements Abstract
Monday 5 May 2025 17:00–18:30 Anh Trong Nam Hoang (Northeastern University) — Homology of Hurwitz spaces via Fox-Neuwirth cells Abstract
Monday 14 April 2025 16:00–17:30 Ismael Sierra (University of Toronto) — Homological stability of even (and odd) symplectic groups Abstract Notes
Monday 10 March 2025 15:00–16:30 Alexis Aumonier (Stockholm University) — Homology of spaces of holomorphic maps to projective space Abstract