Seminars and Reading Groups

Topology seminar

We have regular seminars covering a wide array of topics in algebraic topology. For the most up-to-date list of forthcoming seminars in the 2023-24 academic year, visit the Topology seminars: 2023-24 page.

Some of the topology seminars we have had in recent years:

• Topology seminars: 2022-23

• Topology seminars: 2018-19

• Topology seminars: 2017-18

• Topology seminars: 2016-17

• Topology seminars: 2015-16

Reading groups

We usually run a reading group each semester. 

Current reading groups:

• Astronomical Topology, Semester 1, 2023-24

• Entropy and Diversity, Semester 1, 2023-24

Previous reading groups include:

• Introduction to Infinity-Categories, Semester 2, 2022-23

• Galois Cohomology (jointly with the Number Theory group), Semester 1, 2022-23

• Duality in Monoidal Bicategories, Semester 1, 2022-23

• Categorical Systems Theory, Semester 2, 2021-22

• Condensed Mathematics, Semester 2, 2021-22

• String Topology, Semester 1, 2020-21

• Blueshift and Transchromatic Homotopy Theory, Semester 2, 2019-20

• Derived Commutative Algebra, Semester 1, 2019-20

• Topological Hochschild Homology, Semester 2, 2018-19

• Modular Representation Theory, Semester 1, 2018-19

• Chromatic Homotopy Theory, 2016-17

• Topological K-Theory, Semester 1, 2016-17

• Applied Algebraic Topology, 2015-16

• Topological Modular Forms, Semester 2, 2014-15