The GATEWAY seminar is an informal seminar for junior researchers in Geometry and Topology at Warwick. The aim is to provide an accessible setting where postgraduate students and postdocs can talk about their research or any topic that they have been learning about recently. In other words, any topic that interests you and that you think might interest other G&T postgrads as well can be discussed here.

That said, students and postdocs from other areas are encouraged to participate too!

The talks take place Mondays 2pm-3pm.

If you would like to give a talk or suggest a speaker, please contact Ronja Kuhne or Esmee te Winkel. We have a limited budget to cover expenses for external speakers.

Term 1

Date	Room	Name	Title
2 October 2017	B1.01	Beatrice Pozzetti (Heidelberg University)	Symmetric spaces of non-compact type
9 October 2017	B1.01	Alex Wendland (University of Warwick)	A survey of Topology of finite graphs
16 October 2017	B1.01	Louis Bonthrone (University of Warwick)	J-holomorphic curves from J-anti-invariant forms
23 October 2017	B1.01	Ben Barrett (University of Cambridge)	Bestvina and Mess's double-dagger condition
30 October 2017	B1.01	Esmee te Winkel (University of Warwick)	Mostow's rigidity theorem
6 November 2017	B1.01	Paul Colognese (University of Warwick)	An introduction to rational billiards and translation surfaces
13 November 2017	B1.01	Sophie Stevens (University of Bristol)	Point-Line Incidences in Arbitrary Fields
20 November 2017	B1.01	Stephen Cantrell (University of Warwick)	Counting with Quasimorphisms on Hyperbolic Groups
27 November 2017	B1.01	Alex Evetts (Heriot-Watt University)	Aspects of Growth in Groups
4 December 2017	B1.01	Ana Claudia Lopes Onorio (University of Southampton)	Ends of spaces and groups

 

Term 2

Date	Room	Name	Title
8 January 2018	MS.05	Giles Gardam (Technion)	The geometry of the word problem
15 January 2018	MS.05	Néstor León Delgado (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn)	Jet bundles and local maps
22 January 2018	MS.05	Anna Parlak (University of Warwick)	Roots of Dehn twists
29 January 2018	MS.05	Selim Ghazouani (University of Warwick)	Affine structures on (closed) manifolds
5 February 2018	MS.05	Lucas Ambrozio (University of Warwick)	Critical points of the area functional: where to find them, and how to use them
12 February 2018	MS.05	Abigail Linton (University of Southampton)	Massey products in toric topology
19 February 2018	MS.05	Richard Birkett (University of Cambridge)	Critical Recurrence in the Mandelbrot Set
26 February 2018	MS.05	Agnese Barbensi (University of Oxford)	The Reidemeister graphs
Extra seminar: 5 March 2018, 1-2 pm	B3.01	Marissa Loving (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)	Least dilatation of pure surface braids
5 March 2018	MS.05	Marko Berghoff (Humboldt University of Berlin)	Why you shouldn't be scared of integrals
12 March 2018	MS.05	Gerrit Herrmann (University of Regensburg)	Thurston norm and L^2 -Betti numbers

Term 3

Date	Room	Name	Title
23 April 2018	MS.05	Benjamin Brück (University of Bielefeld)	Buildings and the free factor complex
30 April 2018	MS.05	Marco Barberis (University of Warwick)	Quasi-isometric rigidity for hyperbolic lattices
Tuesday, 8 May 2018, 1-2 pm	MS.04	Davide Spriano (ETH)	Morse subsets in hierarchically hyperbolic spaces
14 May 2018	MS.05	Katie Vokes (University of Warwick)	Curve graphs, disc graphs and the topology of 3-manifolds
21 May 2018	MS.05	Rachael Boyd (University of Aberdeen)	Homological stability for Artin monoids
Tuesday, 29 May 2018, 1-2 pm	MS.05	Samuel Colvin (University of Bristol)	Boundaries of Hyperbolic Groups
4 June 2018	MS.05	Joe Scull (University of Warwick)	An Introduction to Seifert Fibred Spaces
Extra seminar: Thursday, 7 June 2018, 1-2 pm	MS.04	Senja Dominique Barthel (EPFL)	Spatial graphs and minimal knottedness
11 June 2018	B3.03	cancelled
18 June 2018	MS.05	Alex Margolis (University of Oxford)	QI rigidity of commensurator subgroups
25 June 2018	MS.05	Harry Petyt (University of Warwick)	Sphere Packings, Kissing Numbers, and Integers