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Plenary and Semi-Plenary Talks

SumTopo 2025 will feature plenary and semi-plenary talks from several notable researchers.

Schedule

All times Central Time (US & Canada).

August 11

08:40 AM

Projections of spatial graphs — Erica Flapan

01:00 PM

Khovanov skein lasagna modules and exotica — Mike Willis
Unknotting numbers of spatial graphs, knots and DNA — Danielle O'Donnol

August 12

11:00 AM

The Shape of Relations: From Knot Invariants to Cancer Genomics — Radmila Sazdanovic

01:15 PM

Homogeneity degree in local dendrites — Patricia Pellicer-Covarrubias
A survey of intrinsically linked and intrinsically knotted graphs, including an outline of an incomplete possible alternate proof of Sachs' linkless embedding conjecture — Joel Foisy
Independence, ideal independence and forcing indestructibility — Vera Fischer

04:40 PM

Hausdorff vs Gromov-Hausdorff distances — Henry Adams

August 13

09:50 AM

Cardinal inequalities for non-Hausdorff topological spaces — Ivan Gotchev

11:00 AM

Shadowing in $\mathcal C(X)$ — Jonathan Meddaugh
Analyzing the Geometric Topology of Artificial (ReLU) Neural Networks — Marissa Masden

August 14

11:00 AM

Bounded cohomology of transformation groups of $\mathbb{R}^n$ — Francesco Fournier-Facio

01:00 PM

Formalizing Braid Groups — Hannah Fechtner
Infinite Games — Jocelyn Bell

02:10 PM

On tracing properties, invariant measures, and entropy. — Piotr Oprocha