Talks
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Upcoming talks
Past talks (since beginning of 2013)
- Séminaire Algèbre et topologie, IRMA, Strasbourg – 7 November 2017
- Minicourse (5 talks) at IMAR (Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy) – 10, 14, 31 August and 1, 4 September 2017. Title: Introduction to exotic spheres (based on a lecture course that I gave in Bonn recently). Abstract: pdf. (Note: the first two talks were expanded into three talks in the end, so that the whole course was 5 talks instead of 4.) Photos: 1 2
- Topology seminar, Bonn – 9 May 2017
- Topology seminar, Barcelona – 31 March 2017
- At the Young Topologists’ Meeting in Copenhagen – 4-8 July 2016
- At the conference Topology of manifolds in Lisbon, 27 June – 1 July 2016
- Aberdeen topology seminar – 4 April 2016
- La Llagonne – 10/11 March 2016 – a talk (in two parts) on Groups of homotopy spheres: I (Kervaire-Milnor) at a winter school on differential structures on the 7-sphere.
- Paris 13 – 3 March 2016 – a talk at a groupe de travail on the chain rule in Goodwillie calculus
- IHP, Paris – 25 January 2016 – a talk at a groupe de travail on the paper of S. Sam and A. Snowden Gröbner methods for representations of combinatorial categories.
- Paris 7 – 19 January 2016 – a talk at a groupe de travail on the blob complex.
- Séminaire de topologie, IMJ-PRG (Paris 6/7) – 1 December 2015
- Toulouse – 22 October 2015 – a talk at the Colloque 2015 du GDR 2875 (21-23 October 2015)
- Séminaire de topologie, Lille – 9 October 2015
- Séminaire de topologie algébrique, Louvain-la-Neuve – 4 June 2015
- Topology seminar, Oxford – 20 April 2015.
- Leray reading seminar (Münster) on Functor Calculus – 14 April 2015.
- Séminaire de l’équipe Topologie Algébrique, Paris 13 – 26 March 2015.
- Séminaire de Topologie, Géométrie et Algèbre, Nantes – 19 March 2015.
- 10-minute “gong-show” talk at the Oberwolfach workshop 1511 on Homotopy Theory – 11 March 2015
- Leray reading seminar (Münster) on Functor Calculus – 26 February 2015.
- Münster Leray seminar – 29 January 2015, “Twisted group-completion and oriented configuration spaces” (about joint work with Jeremy Miller on a version of the McDuff-Segal group-completion theorem for homology with twisted coefficients, and an application of this to the homology of “oriented configuration spaces”)
- Münster Topology Oberseminar – 26 January 2015. I talked about the group-completion theorem and its role in the proof of the main theorem of [Galatius-Randal-Williams, “Stable moduli spaces of high-dimensional manifolds”]. This was part of a thematic semester for the Oberseminar, focusing on the results of this paper.
- Münster Leray seminar – 30 May 2014, “Homological stability for configurations in closed manifolds” (joint talk with Federico Cantero)
- Münster Leray seminar – 24 October 2013, “Homological stability for spaces of disconnected submanifolds”
- Young Topologists’ Meeting 2013 – Lausanne, 8 July 2013, “Homological stability for spaces of disconnected submanifolds”
- Münster – 27 May 2013, “Configuration spaces and homological stability”
- Topology workshop of the BMC – Sheffield, 27 March 2013, “Homological stability for spaces of disconnected submanifolds”
- Aberdeen – 25 February 2013, “Homological stability for spaces of disconnected submanifolds”
- Manchester – 11 February 2013, “Configuration spaces and homological stability”
- Oxford Kinderseminar – 23 January 2013, “Flexagons”
Some slides from seminars or conference talks that I have given
- Homology of symmetric diffeomorphism groups of manifolds and diffeomorphism groups of manifolds with singularities from the Topology of Manifolds conference in Lisbon, June/July 2016
- Homological stability for configuration spaces of disconnected submanifolds
from the Young Topologists’ Meeting in Lausanne in July 2013 - Configuration spaces and homological stability
from the Young Topologists’ Meeting in Copenhagen in July 2012 - Homological stability for oriented configuration spaces
from a meeting of the Transpennine Topology Triangle in Leicester in April 2011
General disclaimer: these slides were only intended to make sense when combined with me talking about them.