University at Albany, State University of New York

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Algebra/Topology Seminar

When/Where

Thursdays 3:00–4:20
Massry B010

Organizers

Alex Tchernev
Marco Varisco
Matt Zaremsky

Search

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Semesters

Spring 2026
Fall 2025
Spring 2025
Fall 2024
Spring 2024
Fall 2023
Spring 2023
Fall 2022
Spring 2022
Fall 2021
Spring 2021
Fall 2020
Spring 2020
Fall 2019
Spring 2019
Fall 2018
Spring 2018
Fall 2017
Spring 2017
Fall 2016
Spring 2016
Fall 2015
Spring 2015
Fall 2014
Spring 2014
Fall 2013
Spring 2013
Fall 2012
Spring 2012
Fall 2011
Spring 2011
Fall 2010

Funding

Thanks to a Simons Foundation grant (#635763, Zaremsky)

Fall Semester 2025

September 4
Matt Zaremsky (UAlbany)
Aut(Fₙ) Satisfies the Boone–Higman Conjecture
September 11
Danika Van Niel (Binghamton University, SUNY)
How Compatible Pairs of Transfer Systems Witness Equivariant Structure
September 18
Alex Tchernev (UAlbany)
 
September 25
Thomas Ng (Brandeis University)
Random Quotients Preserve Negative Curvature
October 2
Yash Lodha (Purdue University)
Two New Constructions of Finitely Presented Infinite Simple Groups
October 9
Ishika Ghosh (Michigan State University)
Towards an Optimal Bound for the Interleaving Distance on Mapper Graphs
Oct 10–14
ComPer 2025: Workshop on Computational Topology
 
October 16
Conan Gillis (Cornell University)
Conjugator Length, Integer Compression, and the Baumslag–Gersten Group
October 23
Riley Decker (UAlbany)
On Attainability of p-Presentation Distances
October 30
Martina Rovelli (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Examples of Higher Categories in the Form of Complicial Sets
November 6
Zoë Pope (UAlbany)
Proving Homological Stability Using the Randal-Williams–Wahl Machine
November 13
Colby Kelln (Cornell University)
Aspherical Cone-Offs of Hyperbolic Manifolds With Boundary
November 20
Gabriel Angelini-Knoll (Case Western Reserve University)
Algebraic K-Theory of Prime Division Rings in Homotopy Theory
November 27
no classes
 
December 4
no seminar