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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

All times Central Time (US & Canada).

March 11

08:10 AM: Welcoming Remarks & Plenary Session #1 in Heritage Hall Building 102
General Topology in Dynamical Systems — Hisao Kato
09:15 AM: Coffee Break
09:25 AM: Semi-Plenary Session #1
- 09:25 AM: Semi-Plenary Session #1.1 in Heritage Hall Building 102
  From Descriptors to Interfaces: Visual Analytics for Topological Data Analysis — Federico Luricich
- 09:25 AM: Semi-Plenary Session #1.2 in Heritage Hall Building 106
  Selection Games with Compact Sets — Christopher Caruvana
10:10 AM: Coffee Break
10:20 AM: Special Sessions #1
- 10:20 AM: Applied & Data Session #1 in Heritage Hall Building 104
  - 10:20 AM: Applied & Data Session #1.1
    The Shadow of Vietoris-Rips Complexes in Limits — Atish Mitra
  - 10:45 AM: Applied & Data Session #1.2
    The Geometric Latschev's Theorem: Euclidean Shape Reconstruction via Vietoris–Rips Shadow — Sushovan Majhi
  - 11:10 AM: Applied & Data Session #1.3
    Bayesian Sheaf Neural Networks — Layal Bou Hamdan
  - 11:35 AM: Applied & Data Session #1.4
    Topological data analysis on manifolds via de Rham–Hodge Theory — Zhe Su
- 10:20 AM: Continua Session #1 in Heritage Hall Building 106
  - 10:20 AM: Continua Session #1.1
    Bridging Closed Relations and Shift Systems: A Trichotomy of CR-Dynamical Properties — Judy Kennedy
  - 10:45 AM: Continua Session #1.2
    Specification on the Lelek Fan — Van Nall
  - 11:10 AM: Continua Session #1.3
    Dynamics of homeomorphisms of the Lelek and Cantor fans — Christopher Mouron
  - 11:35 AM: Continua Session #1.4
    Topological mixing on Lelek-like fans — Ivan Jelić
- 10:20 AM: Dynamics Session #1 in Heritage Hall Building 121
  - 10:20 AM: Dynamics Session #1.1
    Triod twist cycles and circle rotations — Sourav Bhattacharya
  - 10:55 AM: Dynamics Session #1.2
    Prime periods on the interval — Gabriel Fuhrmann
  - 11:30 AM: Dynamics Session #1.3
    Interval maps mimicking circle rotations — Fryderyk Falniowski
- 10:20 AM: General & ST Session #1 in Heritage Hall Building 124
  - 10:20 AM: General & ST Session #1.1
    An infinite library — KP Hart
  - 10:55 AM: General & ST Session #1.2
    C-Spaces and Inverse Systems — Leonard Rubin
  - 11:30 AM: General & ST Session #1.3
    Countable dense homogeneity in large products of Polish spaces — Andrea Medini
- 10:20 AM: GeoGT Session #1 in Heritage Hall Building 125
  - 10:20 AM: GeoGT Session #1.1
    Asymptotically rigid mapping class groups of infinite graphs — Thomas Hill
  - 10:45 AM: GeoGT Session #1.2
    Dense Conjugacy Classes in the Mapping Class Group of Graphs — Rocky Klein
  - 11:10 AM: GeoGT Session #1.3
    Boundedness of homeomorphism groups of portable manifolds — Megha Bhatt
  - 11:35 AM: GeoGT Session #1.4
    Metrizability of Furstenberg boundaries — Sumun Iyer
- 10:20 AM: GeoTop Session #1 in Heritage Hall Building 126
  - 10:20 AM: GeoTop Session #1.1
    Brackets of disk bundles and configuration space integrals — Robin Koytcheff
  - 10:55 AM: GeoTop Session #1.2
    Unknotting number and L-space satellite operators — Hugo Zhou
  - 11:30 AM: GeoTop Session #1.3
    Surgeries on knots and tight contact structures — Shunyu Wan
  - 11:35 AM: GeoTop Session #1.4
12:00 PM: Lunch
01:30 PM: Plenary Session #2 in Heritage Hall Building 102
On the Mandelbrot set and the MLC Conjecture — Dzmitry Dudko
02:30 PM: Coffee Break
02:40 PM: Semi-Plenary Session #2
- 02:40 PM: Semi-Plenary Session #2.1 in Heritage Hall Building 102
  End-periodic homeomorphisms and volumes of mapping tori — Elizabeth Field
- 02:40 PM: Semi-Plenary Session #2.2 in Heritage Hall Building 106
  Exotic aspherical 4-manifolds — Kyle Hayden
03:25 PM: Coffee Break
03:40 PM: Special Sessions #2
- 03:40 PM: Applied & Data Session #2 in Heritage Hall Building 104
  - 03:40 PM: Applied & Data Session #2.1
    Early Functional Brain Network Alterations and Longitudinal Progression of Asymptomatic Alzheimer’s Disease — Altansuren Tumurbaatar
  - 04:05 PM: Applied & Data Session #2.2
    Upper bounds for the connectivity of Vietoris--Rips complexes of spheres via the tight span — Arya Narnapatti
  - 04:30 PM: Applied & Data Session #2.3
    A discrete view of Gromov's filling area conjecture — Chris Wells
  - 04:55 PM: Applied & Data Session #2.4
    MultiPersistence Topological Fusion with Vision Transformers for Skin Cancer Detection — Sayoni Chakraborty
- 03:40 PM: Continua Session #2 in Heritage Hall Building 106
  - 03:40 PM: Continua Session #2.1
    Plane continua, canals and dead ends — Rene Gril Rogina
  - 04:05 PM: Continua Session #2.2
    Spirals — Alejandro Illanes
  - 04:30 PM: Continua Session #2.3
    Tree-like continua and the fixed-point property — Andrea Ammerlaan
  - 04:55 PM: Continua Session #2.4
    Unions of arcs which are fans — Goran Erceg
  - 05:20 PM: Continua Session #2.5
    Characterizing local connectedness by non-cut sets in continua — Jorge Vega
- 03:40 PM: Dynamics Session #2 in Heritage Hall Building 121
  - 03:40 PM: Dynamics Session #2.1
    Topology of minimal spaces — Ľubomír Snoha
  - 04:15 PM: Dynamics Session #2.2
    Calculating the Malaugh Operations — Forrest Hilton
  - 04:50 PM: Dynamics Session #2.3
    Parabolic Implosion via Blaschke Product — Ricky Simanjuntak
- 03:40 PM: General & ST Session #2 in Heritage Hall Building 124
  - 03:40 PM: General & ST Session #2.1
    On hyperconvexity in partial metric spaces — Dariusz Bugajewski
  - 04:15 PM: General & ST Session #2.2
    Using the Pi-Base for Undergraduate Research — Daniel Leary
  - 04:50 PM: General & ST Session #2.3
    Covers, Stars, and Points, Oh My! — Jocelyn Bell
- 03:40 PM: GeoGT Session #2 in Heritage Hall Building 125
  - 03:40 PM: GeoGT Session #2.1
    Švarc-Milnor actions and asymptotic dimension for big mapping class groups — George Shaji
  - 04:05 PM: GeoGT Session #2.2
    Quasi-isometric embeddings of Ramanujan complexes — Hyein Choi
  - 04:30 PM: GeoGT Session #2.3
    Criterion for Finiteness of BMS Measure — Rou (Vicky) Wen
  - 04:55 PM: GeoGT Session #2.4
    Order-Preserving Braids via the Burau Representation — Jonathan Johnson
- 03:40 PM: GeoTop Session #2 in Heritage Hall Building 126
  - 03:40 PM: GeoTop Session #2.1
    Universal coefficients and Novikov homology — Kevin Schreve
  - 04:15 PM: GeoTop Session #2.2
    Immersed incompressible surfaces in hyperbolic manifolds — Zhenghao Rao
  - 04:50 PM: GeoTop Session #2.3
    Morse theory on moduli of curves — Changjie Chen

March 12

08:15 AM: Plenary Session #3 in Heritage Hall Building 102
Gromov-Wasserstein distances and distributional invariants — Tom Needham
09:15 AM: Coffee Break
09:25 AM: Semi-Plenary Session #3
- 09:25 AM: Semi-Plenary Session #3.1 in Heritage Hall Building 102
  Nielsen realization problems in the Zimmer program — Bena Tshishiku
- 09:25 AM: Semi-Plenary Session #3.2 in Heritage Hall Building 106
  How complex is the arc-connection relation? — Benjamin Vejnar
10:10 AM: Coffee Break
10:20 AM: Special Sessions #3
- 10:20 AM: Applied & Data Session #3 in Heritage Hall Building 104
  - 10:20 AM: Applied & Data Session #3.1
    Lower-bounding the Gromov-Hausdorff Distance Between Balls — Kushagri Sharma
  - 10:45 AM: Applied & Data Session #3.2
    Beyond Persistent Homology: Commutative algebra neural network reveals genetic origins of diseases — JunJie Wee
  - 11:10 AM: Applied & Data Session #3.3
    Graph polynomial encoding for RNA structure data analytics — Pengyu Liu
  - 11:35 AM: Applied & Data Session #3.4
    A Schauder Basis for Multiparameter Persistence and Persistence Variants — Zachariah Ross
- 10:20 AM: Continua Session #3 in Heritage Hall Building 106
  - 10:20 AM: Continua Session #3.1
    Persistent Recurrence and Inverse Limits of Unimodal Maps — Lori Alvin
  - 10:45 AM: Continua Session #3.2
    Period Bounds and Induced Systems in the Hyperspace of Continua in One Dimension — Domagoj Jelic
  - 11:10 AM: Continua Session #3.3
    Dynamics on Fences — Jernej Cinc
  - 11:35 AM: Continua Session #3.4
    Fraïssé fence "with" pseudo-arcs? — Bryant Rosado Silva
- 10:20 AM: Dynamics Session #3 in Heritage Hall Building 121
  - 10:20 AM: Dynamics Session #3.1
    Renormalization, equipotential annuli, and the Hausdorff measure — Vladlen Timorin
  - 10:55 AM: Dynamics Session #3.2
    Generic continuous Lebesgue measure preserving interval maps are nowhere monotone but invertible a.e. — Jozef Bobok
  - 11:30 AM: Dynamics Session #3.3
    Observable attractors and typical dynamics on the interval — Piotr Oprocha
- 10:20 AM: General & ST Session #3 in Heritage Hall Building 124
  - 10:20 AM: General & ST Session #3.1
    Combinatorial covering properties in countable and uncountable contexts — Michał Pawlikowski
  - 10:55 AM: General & ST Session #3.2
    Higher Lindelöf trees — Pedro Marun
  - 11:30 AM: General & ST Session #3.3
    The Cofinality Of Generating Familes — Thomas Gilton
- 10:20 AM: GeoGT Session #3 in Heritage Hall Building 125
  - 10:20 AM: GeoGT Session #3.1
    Injective metrics and affine hyperplane arrangements — Katherine Goldman
  - 10:45 AM: GeoGT Session #3.2
    An explicit section of the Laudenbach type exact sequence of the big mapping class group of $Map(M_Γ)$ — Jorge Andres Robinson Arrieta
  - 11:10 AM: GeoGT Session #3.3
    Truncated braid groups — Ethan Dlugie
  - 11:35 AM: GeoGT Session #3.4
    Connectivity of Gromov boundary of the maximized hyperbolic space of right-angled Coxeter groups — Zhihao Mu
- 10:20 AM: GeoTop Session #3 in Heritage Hall Building 126
  - 10:20 AM: GeoTop Session #3.1
    The existence of taut foliations with zero Euler class — Ying Hu
  - 10:55 AM: GeoTop Session #3.2
    Infinitely many Lefschetz pencils on ruled surfaces — Seraphina Eun Bi Lee
  - 11:30 AM: GeoTop Session #3.3
    Isotopy versus Equivariant Isotopy — Trent Lucas
12:00 PM: Lunch & Graduate Student Mentoring Event
01:30 PM: Plenary Session #4 in Heritage Hall Building 102
Large-scale geometry of right-angled Coxeter groups — Pallavi Dani
02:30 PM: Coffee Break
02:40 PM: Semi-Plenary Session #4
- 02:40 PM: Semi-Plenary Session #4.1 in Heritage Hall Building 102
  Computable Markov Partitions — Christian Wolf
- 02:40 PM: Semi-Plenary Session #4.2 in Heritage Hall Building 106
  On some new star selection principles among covering properties and separability — Davide Giacopello
03:25 PM: Coffee Break
03:40 PM: Special Sessions #4
- 03:40 PM: Applied & Data Session #4 in Heritage Hall Building 104
  - 03:40 PM: Applied & Data Session #4.1
    Group actions on Vietoris-Rips complexes of hypercube graphs — Federico Galetto
  - 04:05 PM: Applied & Data Session #4.2
    Cubical Persistent Homology of Hyperspectral Retinal Images — Desiree Paczay
  - 04:30 PM: Applied & Data Session #4.3
    Sheaf Laplacian Sparsification on Graphs — Minghua Wang
- 03:40 PM: Continua Session #4 in Heritage Hall Building 106
  - 03:40 PM: Continua Session #4.1
    Genericity of Shadowing — Jonathan Meddaugh
  - 04:05 PM: Continua Session #4.2
    Local Variations of Shadowing — Ellie Stephens
  - 04:30 PM: Continua Session #4.3
    Coselections on symmetric products — Veronica Martinez-de-la-Vega
  - 04:55 PM: Continua Session #4.4
    Induced Dynamics on Hyperspaces: Periodic Points and Li–Yorke Chaos — Leonel Rito Rodríguez
  - 05:20 PM: Continua Session #4.5
    Degree of homogeneity on some spaces — Alicia Santiago Santos
- 03:40 PM: Dynamics Session #4 in Heritage Hall Building 121
  - 03:40 PM: Dynamics Session #4.1
    Dynamical approximation of post-singularly finite entire functions — Malavika Mukundan
  - 04:15 PM: Dynamics Session #4.2
    Simple Smale Flows on S^3 — Anthony Sloan
  - 04:50 PM: CANCELED -- Dynamics Session #4.3
    CANCELED -- Dynamics Arising from Group Actions on Primitive Elements — Pratyush Mishra
- 03:40 PM: General & ST Session #4 in Heritage Hall Building 124
  - 03:40 PM: General & ST Session #4.1
    An Adaptation of the Vietoris Topology for Ordered Compact Sets — Jared Holshouser
  - 04:15 PM: General & ST Session #4.2
    Do monotonically semi-neighborhood refining spaces have well-ordered neighborhood (F)? — Ted Porter
  - 04:50 PM: General & ST Session #4.3
    Comparative Topology of the Cantor Fan and the Cantor's Teepee — Manuel M. Aguilera
- 03:40 PM: GeoGT Session #4 in Heritage Hall Building 125
  - 03:40 PM: GeoGT Session #4.1
    An Improved Combination Theorem for A/QI Triples — Olu Olorode
  - 04:05 PM: GeoGT Session #4.2
    Manifold models for hyperbolic graph braid groups — Saumya Jain
  - 04:30 PM: GeoGT Session #4.3
    Pseudo-Anosov subgroups of surface bundles over tori — Junmo Ryang
  - 04:55 PM: GeoGT Session #4.4
    Filling Links and Essential Systole — Yandi Wu
- 03:40 PM: GeoTop Session #4 in Heritage Hall Building 126
  - 03:40 PM: GeoTop Session #4.1
    Root lattices and series valued invariants of plumbed 3-manifolds — Allison Moore
  - 04:05 PM: GeoTop Session #4.2
    Negatively Curved Einstein Metrics — Barry Minemyer
  - 04:30 PM: GeoTop Session #4.3
    Cohomology of Handlebody Torelli Groups — Annie Holden
  - 04:55 PM: GeoTop Session #4.4
    Monodromy of curves in a simply connected surface (joint with Nick Salter) — Ishan Banerjee

March 13

08:15 AM: Plenary Session #5 in Heritage Hall Building 102
Topological Methods in Cardinal Arithmetic — Todd Eisworth
09:15 AM: Coffee Break
09:25 AM: Semi-Plenary Session #5
- 09:25 AM: Semi-Plenary Session #5.1 in Heritage Hall Building 102
  Arithmeticity in Hyperbolic Geometry — Nick Miller
- 09:25 AM: Semi-Plenary Session #5.2 in Heritage Hall Building 106
  Finite time evolution and finite time predictions for dynamical and random systems. — Leonid Bunimovich
10:10 AM: Coffee Break
10:20 AM: Special Sessions #5
- 10:20 AM: Applied & Data Session #5 in Heritage Hall Building 104
  - 10:20 AM: Applied & Data Session #5.1
    A Medial-Axis-Based Measure of District Compactness — Greg Malen
  - 10:45 AM: Applied & Data Session #5.2
    Multi-parameter Čech complexes — Carl Ye
- 10:20 AM: Continua Session #5 in Heritage Hall Building 106
  - 10:20 AM: Continua Session #5.1
    A simple USC bonding function giving $D_m$ as its inverse limit space — Robert Roe
  - 10:45 AM: Continua Session #5.2
    Generalized Inverse Limits on Circles — Scott Varagona
- 10:20 AM: Dynamics Session #5 in Heritage Hall Building 121
  - 10:20 AM: Dynamics Session #5.1
    Critical Orbit Relation Curves and Degenerations — Jan Kiwi
- 10:20 AM: General & ST Session #5 in Heritage Hall Building 124
  - 10:20 AM: General & ST Session #5.1
    General and Set-Theoretic Topology Problem Session — Will Brian
- 10:20 AM: GeoGT Session #5 in Heritage Hall Building 125
  - 10:20 AM: GeoGT Session #5.1
    A Combination Theorem for Relatively Hyperbolic Groups — Darius Alizadeh
  - 10:45 AM: GeoGT Session #5.2
    Relative Quasi-Convexity in the Sageev Construction — Jagerynn Verano
- 10:20 AM: GeoTop Session #5 in Heritage Hall Building 126
  - 10:20 AM: GeoTop Session #5.1
    Mapping class groups and Freudenthal compactifications of infinite type surfaces — Jeremy Brazas
  - 10:45 AM: GeoTop Session #5.2
    Pseudo-isotopy versus isotopy for homeomorphisms of 4-manifolds — Daniel Galvin
11:10 AM: Plenary Session #6 in Heritage Hall Building 102
Tukey order and ultrafilters — Jonathan Cancino-Manríquez
12:00 PM: Lunch
12:15 PM: STDC Steering Committee Meeting in Heritage Hall Building 106
01:30 PM: Plenary Session #7 in Heritage Hall Building 102
Hyperbolic manifolds: Past, present, future — Matthew Stover
02:30 PM: Coffee Break
02:40 PM: Semi-Plenary Session #4
- 02:40 PM: Semi-Plenary Session #4.1 in Heritage Hall Building 102
  Fiber bundles of toric arrangements — Christin Bibby
- 02:40 PM: Semi-Plenary Session #4.2 in Heritage Hall Building 106
  $R^i$-sets in continua and hyperspaces — Patricia Pellicer-Covarrubias
03:25 PM: Coffee Break
03:40 PM: Special Sessions #6
- 03:40 PM: Continua Session #6 in Heritage Hall Building 106
  - 03:40 PM: Continua Session #6.1
    Unique based path lifting fails under R-tree 'covers' of the unit disk — Paul Fabel
  - 04:05 PM: Continua Session #6.2
    Generalized Inverse Limits and a Property of Kelley — Mardan A. Pirdawood
  - 04:30 PM: Continua Session #6.3
    Gehman Dendrite G3 as a Generalized Inverse Limit Space — Faruq Mena
  - 04:55 PM: Continua Session #6.4
    Non-existence of a Common Model for a Class of Indecomposable Continua — Eiichi Matsuhashi
- 03:40 PM: Dynamics Session #6 in Heritage Hall Building 121
  - 03:40 PM: Dynamics Session #6.1
    Dynamical systems as enriched functors — Suddhasattwa Das
  - 04:15 PM: Dynamics Session #6.2
    On the Holomorphic and Random Dynamics for some examples of higher rank Free Groups generated by Hénon type maps — Andres Quintero-Santander
  - 04:50 PM: Dynamics Session #6.3
    A complex dynamics approach to understanding birational maps of the plane arising from cluster algebra mutations — Krishna Chaitanya Kalidindi
- 03:40 PM: General & ST Session #6 in Heritage Hall Building 124
  - 03:40 PM: General & ST Session #6.1
    A glance at function spaces with a dense functionally countable subspace — Vladimir Tkachuk
  - 04:15 PM: General & ST Session #6.2
    Topology, Set Theory, and the $\pi$-Base — Steven Clontz
  - 04:50 PM: CANCELLED - General & ST Session #6.3
- 03:40 PM: GeoGT Session #6 in Heritage Hall Building 125
  - 03:40 PM: GeoGT Session #6.1
    Quasiconvex Subgroups of Acylindrically Hyperbolic Groups — Ping Wan
  - 04:05 PM: GeoGT Session #6.2
    Conjugator length in finitely presented groups — Francis Wagner
  - 04:30 PM: GeoGT Session #6.3
  - 04:55 PM: GeoGT Session #6.4
- 03:40 PM: GeoTop Session #6 in Heritage Hall Building 126
  - 03:40 PM: GeoTop Session #6.1
    Gromov’s Conjecture for Graph Product of Groups — Satyanath Howladar
  - 04:15 PM: GeoTop Session #6.2
    Some fibrations of some pseudomanifold groups — Genevieve Walsh