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• Organizational Meeting

  Speaker: Jacob W. Erickson (UMD, College Park) -
  

  When: Fri, September 10, 2021 - 3:00pm
  Where: Kirwan Hall 1310
  

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  Abstract: Discussion of topics for semester, picking speakers for upcoming weeks, verifying that this is a good time slot, etc.
  
• On symplectic embedding problems

  Speaker: Matt Salinger (UCSC) -
  

  When: Fri, September 24, 2021 - 3:00pm
  Where: Kirwan Hall 1310
  
• Alexandrov geometry: A notion of curvature in metric spaces

  Speaker: Prakhar Gupta (UMD, College Park) -
  

  When: Fri, October 8, 2021 - 3:00pm
  Where: Kirwan Hall 1310
  

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  Abstract: Studying curvature is an important aspect of studying geometry. But most notions of curvature are only defined on manifolds, whereas many interesting metric spaces aren't manifolds. We will discuss a notion of curvature, which can be defined on a large collection of metric spaces. We will discuss properties and mention some recent results about this notion of curvature.
  
• Geometric intuition and Cartan connections

  Speaker: Jacob W. Erickson (UMD, College Park) -
  

  When: Fri, October 15, 2021 - 3:00pm
  Where: Kirwan Hall 1310
  
• The fundamental theorem of nonabelian calculus

  Speaker: Geoffrey Sangston (UMD, College Park) -
  

  When: Fri, October 22, 2021 - 3:00pm
  Where: Kirwan Hall, Room 1310
  
• The basics of unoriented cobordism

  Speaker: Keith Mills (UMD, College Park) -
  

  When: Fri, October 29, 2021 - 3:00pm
  Where: Kirwan Hall 1310