The talks are all happening at University of Southampton (in person), on
Highfield Campus
(SO17 1BJ). For the building and the room, see the individual postings.
Email the organiser ( d (dot) kasprowski (at) soton.ac.uk ) if you have questions.
Mon 28 Sep 2026 14:00 (in B54/10037 (10B)): Xiaomeng Xu (Southampton): TBA No abstract yet.
Mon 12 Oct 2026 14:00 (in B54 / 10037 (10B)): Mark Pencovitch (Glasgow): TBA No abstract yet.
Mon 26 Oct 2026 14:00 (in B54/10037 (10B)): George Tridimas (Cardiff): TBA No abstract yet.
Mon 2 Nov 2026 14:00 (in B54/10037 (10B)): Laura Wakelin (KCL): TBA No abstract yet.
Mon 16 Nov 2026 14:00 (in B54/10037 (10B)): Misha Schmalian (Imperial): TBA No abstract yet.
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Recent talks
Archive
Mon 12 May 2025 14:00: Robin Stoll (Cambridge): A rational model for the fiberwise THH-transfer
Mon 24 Mar 2025 14:00: Lukas Brantner (Oxford): Formal integration of derived foliations
Mon 17 Mar 2025 14:00: Sebastian Chenery (Bristol): Gyration Stability for Projective Planes
Mon 10 Mar 2025 14:00: Stephen Theriault (Southampton): Loop spaces of n-dimensional Poincare Duality complexes whose (n-1)-skeleton is a co-H-space
Mon 3 Mar 2025 14:00: Andrea Guidolin (Southampton): Koszul complexes and relative homological algebra of persistence modules
Mon 17 Feb 2025 14:00: Daniel Galvin (MPIM Bonn): An obstruction theory for fillings of 3-manifolds
Mon 10 Feb 2025 14:00: Jérôme Scherer (EPFL): Module spaces over homology theories and completion towers
Mon 3 Feb 2025 14:00: Jan Steinebrunner (Cambridge): Moduli spaces of 3-manifolds with boundary are finite
Mon 9 Dec 2024 14:00: Csaba Nagy (Glasgow): The classification of 3-connected 8-manifolds
Mon 2 Dec 2024 14:00: Kamen Pavlov (Southampton): On the homotopy classification of 4-manifolds with fundamental group ZxZ/p
Mon 25 Nov 2024 14:00: Jelena Grbic (Southampton): Steenrod operations on polyhedral products
Mon 18 Nov 2024 14:00: Julie Rasmusen (Warwick): THR of Poincaré ∞-categories
Mon 4 Nov 2024 14:00: Miguel Barrero (Aberdeen): Global transfer systems and global N_\infty-operads.
Mon 21 Oct 2024 14:00: Ian Leary (Southampton): Chern classes for p-local finite groups.
Mon 14 Oct 2024 14:00: Maximilian Hans (Southampton): A Light Bulb Theorem for Multi-Disks
Mon 7 Oct 2024 14:00: Mark Powell (Glasgow): Corks for exotic diffeomorphisms
Fri 24 May 2024 15:00: Eric Swenson (Utah): A new proof that a CAT(0) Group with isolated flats is relatively hyperbolic with respect to maximal virtually abelian subgroups
Mon 29 Apr 2024 14:00: Arunima Ray (MPIM Bonn): Embedding surfaces in 4-manifolds
Mon 22 Apr 2024 14:00: Markus Szymik (Sheffield): If groups were DNA (distributive, not associative)
Mon 11 Mar 2024 14:00: Irakli Patchkoria (Aberdeen): Morava K-theory of infinite groups and Euler characteristic
Mon 4 Mar 2024 14:00: Briony Eldridge (Southampton): Loop spaces of polyhedral products associated with substitution complexes.
Mon 26 Feb 2024 14:00: Christoph Winges (Regensburg): Algebraic K-theory and the theorem of the heart
Mon 19 Feb 2024 14:00: Ruben Sanchez-Garcia (Southampton): Directed persistent homology theory for dissimilarity functions
Mon 12 Feb 2024 14:00: Mark Powell (Glasgow): Mapping class groups of 4-manifolds.
Mon 5 Feb 2024 14:00: Ian Leary (Southampton): Groups of type FP via graphical small cancellation
Mon 11 Dec 2023 13:00: Robert Kropholler (Warwick): Coabelian subgroups of hyperbolic groups
Mon 13 Nov 2023 13:00: Adele Jackson (Oxford): Algorithms for Seifert fibered spaces
Mon 6 Nov 2023 13:00: Hyeonhee Jin (MPIM Bonn): String link concordance group and manifold calculus
Mon 30 Oct 2023 13:00: Steven Sivek (Imperial): Rational homology spheres and SL(2,C) representations
Mon 16 Oct 2023 13:00: Cheuk Yu Mak (Southampton): On the classification problem of closed symplectic 4-manifolds
Mon 9 Oct 2023 13:00: Stephen Theriault (Southampton): A homotopical version of the cohomological rigidity problem for quasi-toric manifolds over a cube
Mon 15 May 2023 14:00: John Nicholson (Imperial): Simple homotopy types of 4-manifolds
Wed 10 May 2023 14:00: Naomi Andrew (Oxford): Homology growth in mapping tori
Mon 24 Apr 2023 14:00: Nick Kuhn: Chromatic Smith Fixed Point Theory
Mon 20 Mar 2023 14:00: George Simmons (Southampton): The folded higher Whitehead map
Mon 13 Mar 2023 14:00: Ferdinando Zanchetta (Bologna): Graph Neural Networks for the Working Mathematician
Wed 8 Mar 2023 15:00: Guy Boyde (Utrecht): How big are the homotopy groups of spheres? A functor calculus approach.
Mon 27 Feb 2023 14:00: Steven Amelotte (Western Ontario): Equivariant formality of torus actions on moment-angle complexes
Mon 20 Feb 2023 14:00: Jim Anderson (Southampton): Finite subgroups of mapping class groups
Mon 13 Feb 2023 14:00: Daniel Kasprowski (Southampton): Classifying 4-manifolds
Mon 6 Feb 2023 14:00: Rachael Boyd (Glasgow): Embedding spaces of split links
Mon 30 Jan 2023 14:00: Cheuk-Yu Mak (Southampton): Quantum cohomology and loop group action