Fall Semester 2017
- September 7
- Kathryn Lesh (Union College)
- Decomposition Posets for Complex Vector Spaces
- September 14
- Sneak Preview of the AMS Sectional Meeting in Buffalo
- Matt Zaremsky,
Virtual Splittings of RAAGs Over Abelian Subgroups, and Abstract Commensurability
Marco Varisco, Assembly Maps for Topological Cyclic Homology - September 21
- no classes
- September 28
- Simon Lentner (University Hamburg, Germany)
- Quantum Groups and Nichols Algebras Acting on Conformal Field Theories
- October 5
- Cary Malkiewich (Binghamton University, SUNY)
- Periodic Orbits and Topological Restriction Homology
- October 12
- Rachel Skipper (Binghamton University, SUNY)
- Finiteness Properties of Nekrashevych Groups
- October 19
- Tim Susse (Bard College at Simon’s Rock)
- Outer Automorphisms of Right-Angled Coxeter Groups
- October 26
- Rachel Levanger (University of Pennsylvania)
- A Comparison Framework for Interleaved Persistence Modules
- November 2
- Justin Curry
- Foundations of TDA — The Fiber of the Persistence Map
- November 9
- Justin Curry
- Foundations of TDA — Classification of Constructible Cosheaves
- November 16
- Justin Curry
- Foundations of TDA — Work in Progress
- November 23
- no classes
- November 30
- Tamar Friedmann (Smith College)
- The Action of the Symmetric Group on a Generalization of the Free Lie Algebra: a CataLAnKe Theorem
- December 7
- Anna Puskás (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
- Demazure-Lusztig Operators, Whittaker Functions, and Crystals