59th Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference

The University of Alabama at Birmingham will host STDC 2026 on its campus in Birmingham, AL on March 11-13.

Schedule

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March 11

08:10AM – 09:15AM

General Topology in Dynamical Systems — Hisao Kato

09:15AM – 09:25AM

09:25AM – 10:10AM

09:25AM – 10:10AM

From Descriptors to Interfaces: Visual Analytics for Topological Data Analysis — Federico Luricich
Selection Games with Compact Sets — Christopher Caruvana

10:10AM – 10:20AM

10:20AM – 12:00PM

10:20AM – 12:00PM

10:20AM – 10:40AM

The Shadow of Vietoris-Rips Complexes in Limits — Atish Mitra

10:45AM – 11:05AM

The Geometric Latschev's Theorem: Euclidean Shape Reconstruction via Vietoris–Rips Shadow — Sushovan Majhi

11:10AM – 11:30AM

Bayesian Sheaf Neural Networks — Layal Bou Hamdan

11:35AM – 11:55AM

Topological data analysis on manifolds via de Rham–Hodge Theory — Zhe Su

10:20AM – 10:40AM

Bridging Closed Relations and Shift Systems: A Trichotomy of CR-Dynamical Properties — Judy Kennedy

10:45AM – 11:05AM

Specification on the Lelek Fan — Van Nall

11:10AM – 11:30AM

Dynamics of homeomorphisms of the Lelek and Cantor fans — Christopher Mouron

11:35AM – 11:55AM

Topological mixing on Lelek-like fans — Ivan Jelić, with Iztok Banič, Goran Erceg, Judy Kennedy

10:20AM – 10:50AM

Triod twist cycles and circle rotations — Sourav Bhattacharya

10:55AM – 11:25AM

Prime periods on the interval — Gabriel Fuhrmann

11:30AM – 12:00PM

Interval maps mimicking circle rotations — Fryderyk Falniowski

10:20AM – 10:50AM

An infinite library — KP Hart

10:55AM – 11:25AM

C-Spaces and Inverse Systems — Leonard Rubin, with Matthew Lynam, East Central University, Ada, Oklahoma

11:30AM – 12:00PM

Countable dense homogeneity in large products of Polish spaces — Andrea Medini, with Juris Steprāns

10:20AM – 10:40AM

Asymptotically rigid mapping class groups of infinite graphs — Thomas Hill

10:45AM – 11:05AM

Dense Conjugacy Classes in the Mapping Class Group of Graphs — Rocky Klein

11:10AM – 11:30AM

Boundedness of homeomorphism groups of portable manifolds — Megha Bhatt

11:35AM – 11:55AM

Metrizability of Furstenberg boundaries — Sumun Iyer

10:20AM – 10:50AM

Brackets of disk bundles and configuration space integrals — Robin Koytcheff

10:55AM – 11:25AM

Unknotting number and L-space satellite operators — Hugo Zhou

11:30AM – 12:00PM

Surgeries on knots and tight contact structures — Shunyu Wan

11:35AM – 11:55AM

12:00PM – 01:30PM

01:30PM – 02:30PM

On the Mandelbrot set and the MLC Conjecture — Dzmitry Dudko

02:30PM – 02:40PM

02:40PM – 03:25PM

02:40PM – 03:25PM

End-periodic homeomorphisms and volumes of mapping tori — Elizabeth Field, with Autumn Kent, Heejoung Kim, Christopher Leininger, and Marissa Loving
Exotic aspherical 4-manifolds — Kyle Hayden

03:25PM – 03:40PM

03:40PM – 05:45PM

03:40PM – 05:20PM

03:40PM – 04:00PM

Early Functional Brain Network Alterations and Longitudinal Progression of Asymptomatic Alzheimer’s Disease — Altansuren Tumurbaatar

04:05PM – 04:25PM

Upper bounds for the connectivity of Vietoris--Rips complexes of spheres via the tight span — Arya Narnapatti

04:30PM – 04:50PM

A discrete view of Gromov's filling area conjecture — Chris Wells

04:55PM – 05:15PM

MultiPersistence Topological Fusion with Vision Transformers for Skin Cancer Detection — Sayoni Chakraborty, with Fulya Tastan, Sangyeon Lee, Baris Coskunuzer

03:40PM – 04:10PM

Topology of minimal spaces — Ľubomír Snoha

04:15PM – 04:45PM

Calculating the Malaugh Operations — Forrest Hilton

04:50PM – 05:20PM

Parabolic Implosion via Blaschke Product — Ricky Simanjuntak

03:40PM – 04:10PM

On hyperconvexity in partial metric spaces — Dariusz Bugajewski

04:15PM – 04:45PM

Using the Pi-Base for Undergraduate Research — Daniel Leary

04:50PM – 05:20PM

Covers, Stars, and Points, Oh My! — Jocelyn Bell

03:40PM – 04:00PM

Švarc-Milnor actions and asymptotic dimension for big mapping class groups — George Shaji

04:05PM – 04:25PM

Quasi-isometric embeddings of Ramanujan complexes — Hyein Choi

04:30PM – 04:50PM

Criterion for Finiteness of BMS Measure — Rou (Vicky) Wen

04:55PM – 05:15PM

Order-Preserving Braids via the Burau Representation — Jonathan Johnson, with Khanh Le

03:40PM – 04:10PM

Universal coefficients and Novikov homology — Kevin Schreve

04:15PM – 04:45PM

Immersed incompressible surfaces in hyperbolic manifolds — Zhenghao Rao

04:50PM – 05:20PM

Morse theory on moduli of curves — Changjie Chen

03:40PM – 05:45PM

03:40PM – 04:00PM

Plane continua, canals and dead ends — Rene Gril Rogina

04:05PM – 04:25PM

Spirals — Alejandro Illanes

04:30PM – 04:50PM

Tree-like continua and the fixed-point property — Andrea Ammerlaan, with Logan Hoehn

04:55PM – 05:15PM

Unions of arcs which are fans — Goran Erceg

05:20PM – 05:40PM

Characterizing local connectedness by non-cut sets in continua — Jorge Vega

March 12

08:15AM – 09:15AM

Gromov-Wasserstein distances and distributional invariants — Tom Needham

09:15AM – 09:25AM

09:25AM – 10:10AM

09:25AM – 10:10AM

Nielsen realization problems in the Zimmer program — Bena Tshishiku
How complex is the arc-connection relation? — Benjamin Vejnar

10:10AM – 10:20AM

10:20AM – 12:00PM

10:20AM – 12:00PM

10:20AM – 10:40AM

Lower-bounding the Gromov-Hausdorff Distance Between Balls — Kushagri Sharma

10:45AM – 11:05AM

Beyond Persistent Homology: Commutative algebra neural network reveals genetic origins of diseases — JunJie Wee

11:10AM – 11:30AM

Graph polynomial encoding for RNA structure data analytics — Pengyu Liu

11:35AM – 11:55AM

A Schauder Basis for Multiparameter Persistence and Persistence Variants — Zachariah Ross

10:20AM – 10:40AM

Persistent Recurrence and Inverse Limits of Unimodal Maps — Lori Alvin

10:45AM – 11:05AM

Period Bounds and Induced Systems in the Hyperspace of Continua in One Dimension — Domagoj Jelic

11:10AM – 11:30AM

Dynamics on Fences — Jernej Cinc, with Udayan B. Darji and Benjamin Vejnar

11:35AM – 11:55AM

Fraïssé fence "with" pseudo-arcs? — Bryant Rosado Silva

10:20AM – 10:50AM

Renormalization, equipotential annuli, and the Hausdorff measure — Vladlen Timorin, with A. Blokh, G. Levin, and L. Oversteegen

10:55AM – 11:25AM

Generic continuous Lebesgue measure preserving interval maps are nowhere monotone but invertible a.e. — Jozef Bobok, with J. \v Cin\v c, P. Oprocha, S. Troubetzkoy

11:30AM – 12:00PM

Observable attractors and typical dynamics on the interval — Piotr Oprocha

10:20AM – 10:50AM

Combinatorial covering properties in countable and uncountable contexts — Michał Pawlikowski

10:55AM – 11:25AM

Higher Lindelöf trees — Pedro Marun

11:30AM – 12:00PM

The Cofinality Of Generating Familes — Thomas Gilton

10:20AM – 10:40AM

Injective metrics and affine hyperplane arrangements — Katherine Goldman

10:45AM – 11:05AM

An explicit section of the Laudenbach type exact sequence of the big mapping class group of $Map(M_Γ)$ — Jorge Andres Robinson Arrieta

11:10AM – 11:30AM

Truncated braid groups — Ethan Dlugie, with Tahsin Saffat

11:35AM – 11:55AM

Connectivity of Gromov boundary of the maximized hyperbolic space of right-angled Coxeter groups — Zhihao Mu

10:20AM – 10:50AM

The existence of taut foliations with zero Euler class — Ying Hu

10:55AM – 11:25AM

Infinitely many Lefschetz pencils on ruled surfaces — Seraphina Eun Bi Lee

11:30AM – 12:00PM

Isotopy versus Equivariant Isotopy — Trent Lucas

12:00PM – 01:30PM

01:30PM – 02:30PM

Large-scale geometry of right-angled Coxeter groups — Pallavi Dani

02:30PM – 02:40PM

02:40PM – 03:25PM

02:40PM – 03:25PM

Computable Markov Partitions — Christian Wolf
On some new star selection principles among covering properties and separability — Davide Giacopello

03:25PM – 03:40PM

03:40PM – 05:45PM

03:40PM – 05:20PM

03:40PM – 04:00PM

Group actions on Vietoris-Rips complexes of hypercube graphs — Federico Galetto

04:05PM – 04:25PM

Cubical Persistent Homology of Hyperspectral Retinal Images — Desiree Paczay, with Alexandre Karassev, Murat Tuncali, Yeni Yucel, Janak Bhanushali, Bright Effah

04:30PM – 04:50PM

Sheaf Laplacian Sparsification on Graphs — Minghua Wang, with Vasileios Maroulas

03:40PM – 04:10PM

Dynamical approximation of post-singularly finite entire functions — Malavika Mukundan

04:15PM – 04:45PM

Simple Smale Flows on S^3 — Anthony Sloan

04:50PM – 05:20PM

CANCELED -- Dynamics Arising from Group Actions on Primitive Elements — Pratyush Mishra

03:40PM – 04:10PM

An Adaptation of the Vietoris Topology for Ordered Compact Sets — Jared Holshouser

04:15PM – 04:45PM

Do monotonically semi-neighborhood refining spaces have well-ordered neighborhood (F)? — Ted Porter

04:50PM – 05:20PM

Comparative Topology of the Cantor Fan and the Cantor's Teepee — Manuel M. Aguilera

03:40PM – 04:00PM

An Improved Combination Theorem for A/QI Triples — Olu Olorode

04:05PM – 04:25PM

Manifold models for hyperbolic graph braid groups — Saumya Jain

04:30PM – 04:50PM

Pseudo-Anosov subgroups of surface bundles over tori — Junmo Ryang

04:55PM – 05:15PM

Filling Links and Essential Systole — Yandi Wu, with Chris Leininger

03:40PM – 04:05PM

Root lattices and series valued invariants of plumbed 3-manifolds — Allison Moore, with Nicola Tarasca

04:05PM – 04:30PM

Negatively Curved Einstein Metrics — Barry Minemyer

04:30PM – 04:55PM

Cohomology of Handlebody Torelli Groups — Annie Holden

04:55PM – 05:20PM

Monodromy of curves in a simply connected surface (joint with Nick Salter) — Ishan Banerjee

03:40PM – 05:45PM

03:40PM – 04:00PM

Genericity of Shadowing — Jonathan Meddaugh, with Ellie Stephens

04:05PM – 04:25PM

Local Variations of Shadowing — Ellie Stephens

04:30PM – 04:50PM

Coselections on symmetric products — Veronica Martinez-de-la-Vega, with Alejandro Illanes, Diego A. Ramírez

04:55PM – 05:15PM

Induced Dynamics on Hyperspaces: Periodic Points and Li–Yorke Chaos — Leonel Rito Rodríguez

05:20PM – 05:40PM

Degree of homogeneity on some spaces — Alicia Santiago Santos

March 13

08:15AM – 09:15AM

Topological Methods in Cardinal Arithmetic — Todd Eisworth

09:15AM – 09:25AM

09:25AM – 10:10AM

09:25AM – 10:10AM

Arithmeticity in Hyperbolic Geometry — Nick Miller, with Cheetham-West and Lee
Finite time evolution and finite time predictions for dynamical and random systems. — Leonid Bunimovich

10:10AM – 10:20AM

10:20AM – 11:10AM

10:20AM – 11:10AM

10:20AM – 10:40AM

A Medial-Axis-Based Measure of District Compactness — Greg Malen, with Jason D'Amico, Ellen Gasparovic, Mushan Zhong

10:45AM – 11:05AM

Multi-parameter Čech complexes — Carl Ye

10:20AM – 10:40AM

A simple USC bonding function giving $D_m$ as its inverse limit space — Robert Roe

10:45AM – 11:05AM

Generalized Inverse Limits on Circles — Scott Varagona

10:20AM – 11:10AM

Critical Orbit Relation Curves and Degenerations — Jan Kiwi

10:20AM – 10:40AM

General and Set-Theoretic Topology Problem Session — Will Brian

10:20AM – 10:40AM

A Combination Theorem for Relatively Hyperbolic Groups — Darius Alizadeh

10:45AM – 11:05AM

Relative Quasi-Convexity in the Sageev Construction — Jagerynn Verano

10:20AM – 10:50AM

Mapping class groups and Freudenthal compactifications of infinite type surfaces — Jeremy Brazas, with Jesus H. Hernandez, Curtis Kent

10:45AM – 11:10AM

Pseudo-isotopy versus isotopy for homeomorphisms of 4-manifolds — Daniel Galvin

11:10AM – 12:10PM

Tukey order and ultrafilters — Jonathan Cancino-Manríquez, with Jindrich Zapletal

12:00PM – 01:30PM

12:15PM – 01:15PM

01:30PM – 02:30PM

Hyperbolic manifolds: Past, present, future — Matthew Stover

02:30PM – 02:40PM

02:40PM – 03:25PM

02:40PM – 03:25PM

Fiber bundles of toric arrangements — Christin Bibby
$R^i$-sets in continua and hyperspaces — Patricia Pellicer-Covarrubias

03:25PM – 03:40PM

03:40PM – 05:20PM

03:40PM – 05:20PM

03:40PM – 04:00PM

Unique based path lifting fails under R-tree 'covers' of the unit disk — Paul Fabel

04:05PM – 04:25PM

Generalized Inverse Limits and a Property of Kelley — Mardan A. Pirdawood

04:30PM – 04:50PM

Gehman Dendrite G3 as a Generalized Inverse Limit Space — Faruq Mena, with Sarezh R. Rasul

04:55PM – 05:15PM

Non-existence of a Common Model for a Class of Indecomposable Continua — Eiichi Matsuhashi

03:40PM – 04:10PM

Dynamical systems as enriched functors — Suddhasattwa Das

04:15PM – 04:45PM

On the Holomorphic and Random Dynamics for some examples of higher rank Free Groups generated by Hénon type maps — Andres Quintero-Santander

04:50PM – 05:20PM

A complex dynamics approach to understanding birational maps of the plane arising from cluster algebra mutations — Krishna Chaitanya Kalidindi

03:40PM – 04:10PM

A glance at function spaces with a dense functionally countable subspace — Vladimir Tkachuk

04:15PM – 04:45PM

Topology, Set Theory, and the $\pi$-Base — Steven Clontz

04:50PM – 05:20PM

03:40PM – 04:00PM

Quasiconvex Subgroups of Acylindrically Hyperbolic Groups — Ping Wan

04:05PM – 04:25PM

Conjugator length in finitely presented groups — Francis Wagner, with Conan Gillis

04:30PM – 04:50PM

04:55PM – 05:15PM

03:40PM – 04:10PM

Gromov’s Conjecture for Graph Product of Groups — Satyanath Howladar

04:15PM – 04:45PM

Some fibrations of some pseudomanifold groups — Genevieve Walsh