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March 2025

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58th Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference Schedule

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March 06

08:00 AM: Coffee / Check-In
08:20 AM: Welcoming Remarks in Forbes 1022
08:30 AM: Plenary Talk: Will Brian in Forbes 1022
Order-reversing maps on $\mathbb N^\ast$ and $\mathbb H^\ast$ — Will Brian
09:25 AM: Coffee Break
09:40 AM: Semi-plenary Talks
- Semi-Plenary A: Florian Frick in Forbes 1022
  Geometry of Rips complexes and applications — Florian Frick
- Semi-plenary B: Matevž Črepnjak in McMurran 101
  On a generalization of the Ingram conjecture — Matevž Črepnjak
10:25 AM: Coffee Break
10:40 AM: Parallel Sessions
- Applied Topology - Thurs. AM in Forbes 1022
  - 10:40 AM: Elena Wang
    Computing the Bottleneck Distance from Every Direction — Elena Wang
  - 11:05 AM: Atish Mitra
    Restricted Distortions of Embedded Length Spaces — atish mitra
  - 11:30 AM: Sushovan Majhi
    Topological Stability and Latschev-type Reconstruction Theorems for CAT(k) Spaces (part 1) — Sushovan Majhi
  - 11:55 AM: Brad Turow
    Circle Bundles For Data — Brad Turow
- Continuum Theory - Thurs. AM in Forbes 2070A
  - 10:40 AM: Christopher Mouron in Forbes 2070A
    Dynamics on Hereditarily Decomposable Tree-like Continuum — Christopher Mouron
  - 11:05 AM: Judy Kennedy in Forbes 2070A
    Uncountable family of Lelek-like fans — Judy Kennedy
  - 11:30 AM: Rene Gril Rogina in Forbes 2070A
    Fan homogeneity — Rene Gril Rogina
  - 11:55 AM: Daron Anderson (virtual) in Forbes 2070A
    Hereditarily Decomposable Continua have Non-Block Points — Daron Anderson
- Dynamical Systems - Thurs. AM in Forbes 2070D
  - 10:40 AM: Christian Wolf in Forbes 2070D
    Measures of maximal entropy on coded shift spaces — Christian Wolf
  - 11:05 AM: Kevin McGoff in Forbes 2070D
    Ergodic optimization with linear constraints — Kevin McGoff
  - 11:30 AM: Tamara Kucherenko in Forbes 2070D
    On the existence of freezing phase transitions for lattice systems — Tamara Kucherenko
- Geometric Group Theory - Thurs. AM in Forbes 2070E
  - 10:40 AM: Theodore Weisman in Forbes 2070E
    Anosov representations of cubulated hyperbolic groups — Theodore Weisman
  - 11:05 AM: Pratit Goswami in Forbes 2070E
    Dehn Functions of Coabelian Subgroups — Pratit Goswami
  - 11:30 AM: Ekaterina Rybak in Forbes 2070E
    Frattini subgroups of hyperbolic-like groups — Ekaterina Rybak
- Geometric Topology - Thurs. AM in Forbes 2074
  - 10:40 AM: Corey Bregman
    A generalization of Cannon's conjecture for cubulated hyperbolic groups — Corey Bregman
  - 11:05 AM: Oliver Wang
    Equivariant Smoothings and the Whitehead Group — Oliver Wang
  - 11:30 AM: Yandi Wu
    Rigidity Phenomena for Surface Amalgams — Yandi Wu
- Set-Theoretic Topology - Thurs. AM in Forbes 2070C
  - 10:40 AM: Alan Dow in Forbes 2070C
    Discrete density number — Alan Dow
  - 11:05 AM: Davide Giacopello in Forbes 2070C
    On some Selection Principles and Games involving Countable Networks — Davide Giacopello
12:20 PM: Lunch
01:30 PM: Plenary Talk: James Davis in Forbes 1022
The Borel Conjecture for compact aspherical 4-manifolds with boundary — James Davis
02:25 PM: Coffee Break
02:45 PM: Parallel Sessions
- Applied Topology - Thurs. PM in Forbes 1022
  - 02:45 PM: Evgeniya Lagoda in Forbes 1022
    Multiparameter landscapes for latent representations — Evgeniya Lagoda
  - 03:10 PM: Francisco Martinez Figueroa in Forbes 1022
    Letter Insertion Homology and the Complexity of Word Sets: A Topological Approach to DNA Mutation and Repair — Francisco Martinez Figueroa
  - 03:35 PM: Matt Superdock in Forbes 1022
    A discontinuous ham sandwich theorem — Matt Superdock
- Continuum Theory - Thurs. PM in Forbes 2070A
  - 02:45 PM: Ivan Jelić in Forbes 2070A
    Generalization of the specification property to CR-dynamical systems — Ivan Jelić
  - 03:10 PM: Ana Anušić in Forbes 2070A
    Knaster continua in the plane — Ana Anusic
  - 03:35 PM: Andrea Ammerlaan in Forbes 2070A
    Planarity of compactifications of R with arc-like remainder — Andrea Ammerlaan
- Dynamical Systems - Thurs. PM in Forbes 2070D
  - 02:45 PM: Diyath Pannipitiya in Forbes 2070D
    Phase transitions in the Potts model on Cayley tree. — Diyath Pannipitiya
  - 03:10 PM: Emma Dinowitz in Forbes 2070D
    Dimension of Lyapunov spectrum for non uniformly hyperbolic settings — Emma Dinowitz
  - 03:35 PM: Evans Hedges in Forbes 2070D
    On the Equivalence of Equilibrium and Freezing States — Evans Hedges
- Geometric Group Theory - Thurs. PM in Forbes 2070E
  - 02:45 PM: Sayantika Mondal (virtual) in Forbes 2070E
    Distinguishing filling curve types via special metrics — Sayantika Mondal
  - 03:10 PM: Chris Karpinski (virtual) in Forbes 2070E
    A weak Tits alternative for groups acting on buildings — Chris Karpinski
  - 03:35 PM: Paige Hillen (virtual) in Forbes 2070E
    Latent symmetry of graphs and stretch factors in Out(Fn) — Paige Hillen
- Geometric Topology - Thurs. PM in Forbes 2074
  - 02:45 PM: Trent Lucas
    3-Manifolds, Isotopy, and Group Actions — Trent Lucas
  - 03:10 PM: Eduardo Fernández
    Parametrized Legendrian Surgery — Eduardo Fernández
  - 03:35 PM: Yanlong Hao (virtual)
    Symmetry and arithmetic structures — Yanlong Hao
- Set-Theoretic Topology - Thurs. PM in Forbes 2070C
  - 02:45 PM: Ivan Gotchev in Forbes 2070C
    On cardinal inequalities for topological spaces — Ivan Gotchev
  - 03:10 PM: Thomas Gilton (virtual) in Forbes 2070C
    A Forcing Axiom for Preserving a Lindelöf Space — Thomas Gilton
  - 03:35 PM: (Talk rescheduled for Saturday) in Forbes 2070C
04:00 PM: Coffee Break
04:15 PM: Plenary Talk: Iztok Banič in Forbes 1022
Mahavier products and Mahavier dynamical systems — Iztok Banic

March 07

08:00 AM: Coffee / Check-In
08:30 AM: Plenary Talk: Herbert Edelsbrunner in Forbes 1022
Steps on the Way to and from Persistent Homology — Herbert Edelsbrunner
09:25 AM: Coffee Break
09:40 AM: Semi-plenary Talks
- Semi-plenary A: Corey Bregman in Forbes 1022
  Diffeomorphisms of 3-manifolds with boundary — Corey Bregman
- Semi-plenary B: Jared Holshouser in Forbes 2070E
  Building Connections Between Topological Spaces With Games — Jared Holshouser
- Semi-plenary C: Luna Lomonaco (virtual) in Forbes 2070D
  The Mandelbrot set and its Satellite copies — Luna Lomonaco
10:25 AM: Coffee Break
10:40 AM: Parallel Sessions
- Applied Topology - Fri. AM in Forbes 1022
  - 10:40 AM: Matthew Zaremsky in Forbes 1022
    Bestvina-Brady discrete Morse theory and Vietoris-Rips complexes — Matthew Zaremsky
  - 11:05 AM: Irina Kogan in Forbes 1022
    Congruence of Planar Curves and the Signature Quiver — Irina Kogan
  - 11:30 AM: Rafal Komendarczyk in Forbes 1022
    Topological Stability and Latschev-type Reconstruction Theorems for $\boldsymbol{\operatorname{CAT}(\kappa)}$ Spaces (part 2) — Rafal Komendarczyk
  - 11:55 AM: Brittany Story (virtual) in Forbes 1022
    Mapp(er)ing brain states using EEG data — Brittany Story
- Continuum Theory - Fri. AM in Forbes 2070A
  - 10:40 AM: Alejandro Illanes in Forbes 2070A
    A notable contractible dendroid — Alejandro Illanes
  - 11:05 AM: Patricia Pellicer-Covarrubias (virtual) in Forbes 2070A
    Coselectibility regarding symmetric products — Patricia Pellicer-Covarrubias
  - 11:30 AM: Daria Michalik (virtual) in Forbes 2070A
    Uniqueness of cones for some not locally connected continua — Daria Michalik
- Dynamical Systems - Fri. AM in Forbes 2070D
  - 10:40 AM: Felipe Garcia-Ramos in Forbes 2070D
    Percolation Theory and the Diversity of Cellular Automata on Groups — Felipe García-Ramos
  - 11:05 AM: Benjamin Vejnar (virtual) in Forbes 2070D
    Classification complexity of chaotic systems — Benjamin Vejnar
  - 11:30 AM: Alex Paschal in Forbes 2070D
    The Variational Principle for Entropy of Countable State Shift Spaces With Specification — Alex Paschal
- Geometric Group Theory - Fri. AM in Forbes 2070E
  - 10:40 AM: Jacob Garcia in Forbes 2070E
    Characterizations of Stability via Morse Limit Sets — Jacob Garcia
  - 11:05 AM: Bratati Som in Forbes 2070E
    Acylindrical actions on trees and applications to the outer automorphism group of Baumslag-Solitar groups — Bratati Som
  - 11:30 AM: Thomas Hill in Forbes 2070E
    Automorphisms of the sphere complex of an infinite graph — Thomas Hill
- Geometric Topology - Fri. AM in Forbes 2074
  - 10:40 AM: Peter Huxford
    Classifying holomorphic maps between spaces of polynomials — Peter Huxford
  - 11:05 AM: Xiyan Zhong
    Prym Representations and Twisted Cohomology of the Mapping Class Group with Level Structures — Xiyan Zhong
  - 11:30 AM: Philip Tosteson
    Rational points on quartic del Pezzo surfaces via homological stability — Philip Tosteson
  - 11:55 AM: Katherine Booth
    Automorphisms of the smooth fine curve graph — Katherine Booth
- Set-Theoretic Topology - Fri. AM in Forbes 2070C
  - 10:40 AM: Paul Szeptycki in Forbes 2070C
    Some recent results on $\Delta$-spaces — Paul Szeptycki
  - 11:05 AM: Olivier Olela-Otafudu in Forbes 2070C
    On expansive homeomorphisms on a quasi-uniform space — Olivier Olela-Otafudu
  - 11:30 AM: KP Hart (virtual) in Forbes 2070C
    Closed copies of $\mathbb{N}$ in $\mathbb{R}^{\omega_1}$ — KP Hart
12:20 PM: Lunch
01:30 PM: Plenary Talk: Francesco Fournier-Facio in Forbes 1022
Bounded cohomology and displacement — Francesco Fournier-Facio
02:25 PM: Coffee Break
02:40 PM: Parallel Sessions
- Applied Topology - Fri. PM in Forbes 1022
  - 02:40 PM: Ulises Morales-Fuentes (virtual) in Forbes 1022
    Vaughan's function orthogonal sections — Ulises Morales-Fuentes
  - 03:05 PM: Padmini Nukala in Forbes 1022
    Čech Complexes of Certain Finite Metric Spaces — Naga Chandra Padmini Nukala
  - 03:30 PM: Thomas Weighill in Forbes 1022
    Topological Analysis of U.S. City Demographics — Thomas Weighill
  - 03:55 PM: Nicolò Zava in Forbes 1022
    Gromov-Hausdorff distance between metric graphs and their subspaces — Nicolò Zava
- Continuum Theory - Fri. PM in Forbes 2070A
  - 02:40 PM: David Lipham (virtual) in Forbes 2070A
    Cantor fences in plane continua — David Lipham
  - 03:05 PM: Faruq Mena (virtual) in Forbes 2070A
    An Uncountable Family of Generalized Inverse Limit Spaces Which are Pointwise Self Homeomorphic (Updated). — Faruq Mena
  - 03:30 PM: Teja Kac in Forbes 2070A
    Big and large continua — Teja Kac
  - 03:55 PM: Matt Insall (virtual) in Forbes 2070A
    Unary Topological Algebras on Continua, and Some Associated Function Algebras — Matt Insall
- Dynamical Systems - Fri. PM in Forbes 2070D
  - 02:40 PM: Casey Schlortt in Forbes 2070D
    Maximal Pattern Complexity for General Alphabets — Casey Schlortt
  - 03:05 PM: Robert Bland in Forbes 2070D
    Homomorphisms from aperiodic subshifts to subshifts with the finite extension property — Robert Bland
  - 03:30 PM: Scott Schmieding in Forbes 2070D
    Flow equivalence and PSL_2(Q)-equivalence — Scott Schmieding
  - 03:55 PM: Jennifer Jones-Baro in Forbes 2070D
    The stabilized automorphism group of minimal systems — Jennifer N. Jones-Baro
- Geometric Group Theory - Fri. PM in Forbes 2070E
  - 02:40 PM: Conan Gillis in Forbes 2070E
    Independence of Dehn, conjugator length, and annular Dehn functions of finitely presented groups — Conan Gillis
  - 03:05 PM: Beibei Liu in Forbes 2070E
    Pattern preserving quasi-isometries in lamplighter groups — Beibei Liu
  - 03:30 PM: MurphyKate Montee in Forbes 2070E
    Centers of Artin Groups Defined on Cones — MurphyKate Montee
  - 03:55 PM: Daniel Levitin in Forbes 2070E
    Left-invariant Riemannian distances on higher-rank Sol-type groups. — Daniel Levitin
- Geometric Topology - Fri. PM in Forbes 2074
  - 02:40 PM: Seraphina Lee
    Lefschetz fibrations with infinitely many sections — Seraphina Eun Bi Lee
  - 03:05 PM: Kai Nakamura
    Exotic traces and the shake genus — Kai Nakamura
  - 03:30 PM: Roman Aranda
    Multiplane diagrams of surfaces in 4-space — Roman Aranda
  - 03:55 PM: Anubhav Mukherjee
    Dehn twist and smooth mapping class group of 4-manifolds — Anubhav Mukherjee
- Set-Theoretic Topology - Fri. PM in Forbes 2070C
  - General and Set-Theoretic Topology Problem Session in Forbes 2070C
04:20 PM: Coffee Break
04:30 PM: Semi-plenary Talks
- Semi-plenary A: Sahana Balasubramanya in Forbes 1022
  Hyperbolic actions of Thompson's group $F$ — Sahana H Balasubramanya
- Semi-plenary B: David Maya in Forbes 2070E
  Semi-Kelley fans have contractible hyperspaces — David Maya

March 08

08:00 AM: Coffee / Check-In
08:30 AM: Semi-plenary Talks
- Semi-plenary A: Liz Munch in Forbes 1022
  Data Driven Homological Approaches for Detecting Changes in Dynamical System — Liz Munch
- Semi-plenary B: Alexandra Kjuchukova (virtual) in Forbes 2070E
  All is Rep-Tile — Alexandra Kjuchukova
09:15 AM: Coffee Break
09:25 AM: Semi-plenary Talks
- Semi-plenary A: Van Cyr in Forbes 1022
  Chaotic almost minimal actions — Van Cyr
- Semi-plenary B: Sam Nariman in Forbes 2070E
  The Milnor-Wood Inequality: Geometry, Topology, and Flat Bundles — Sam Nariman
10:10 AM: Coffee Break
10:20 AM: Parallel Sessions
- Applied Topology - Sat. AM in Forbes 1022
  - 10:20 AM: Andrew Newman in Forbes 1022
    Random complexes with free involution — Andrew Newman
  - 10:45 AM: Ling Zhou in Forbes 1022
    Persistent cohomology operations and Gromov-Hausdorff estimates — Ling Zhou
  - 11:10 AM: Liam Barham in Forbes 1022
    Group Actions on Metric Spaces — Liam Barham
  - 11:35 AM: Alex Karassev in Forbes 1022
    Metric thickenings of Vietoris-Rips complexes — Alexandre Karassev
- Continuum Theory - Sat. AM in Forbes 2070A
  - 10:20 AM: Hayato Imamura (virtual) in Forbes 2070A
    Generalized inverse limits with Markov set-valued functions on finite graphs — Hayato Imamura
  - 10:45 AM: Spencer Arnesen in Forbes 2070A
    A Dendrite Equivalence Relation on Loop Space — Spencer Arnesen
  - 11:10 AM: Curtis Kent in Forbes 2070A
    Building $\mathbb R$-trees — Curtis Kent
  - 11:35 AM: Alessandro Vignati (virtual) in Forbes 2070A
    The weak Extension Principle — Alessandro Vignati
- Dynamical Systems - Sat. AM in Forbes 2070D
  - 10:20 AM: Piotr Oprocha (virtual) in Forbes 2070D
    Completely invariant sets and Lorenz maps — Piotr Oprocha
  - 10:45 AM: Nikita Selinger in Forbes 2070D
    Cubic polynomials and laminations — Nikita Selinger
  - 11:10 AM: Kaitlyn Loyd in Forbes 2070D
    Ergodic Averages along Sequences of Slow Growth — Kaitlyn Loyd
  - 11:35 AM: Anh Le in Forbes 2070D
    Sets of pointwise recurrence and answers to some questions of Host, Kra, and Maass — Anh Le
- Geometric Group Theory - Sat. AM in Forbes 2070E
  - 10:20 AM: Kejia Zhu (virtual) in Forbes 2070E
    CAT(0) geometry of complex curve complements and families — Kejia Zhu
  - 10:45 AM: Michael Kopreski in Forbes 2070E
    Asymptotic dimension of graphs of arcs and curves on infinite-type surfaces — Michael Kopreski
  - 11:10 AM: Annette Karrer in Forbes 2070E
    Connected components in Morse boundaries of right-angled Coxeter groups — Annette Karrer
  - 11:35 AM: Jean-François Lafont in Forbes 2070E
    Random branched covers of 2-complexes — Jean-Francois Lafont
- Geometric Topology - Sat. AM in Forbes 2074
  - 10:20 AM: Matthew Zevenbergen
    Connectivity in the space of pointed hyperbolic 3-manifolds — Matthew Zevenbergen
  - 10:45 AM: Rose Kaplan-Kelly
    Arithmeticity and commensurability of links in thickened surfaces — Rose Kaplan-Kelly
  - 11:10 AM: Theodore Weisman
    Dehn filling in semisimple Lie groups — Theodore Weisman
  - 11:35 AM: Beibei Liu
    Bounding the Dehn surgery number by 10/8 — Beibei Liu
- Set-Theoretic Topology - Sat. AM in Forbes 2070C
  - 10:20 AM: Akira Awasa (virtual) in Forbes 2070C
    Adding an uncountable discrete subspace by forcing — Akira Iwasa
  - 10:45 AM: Vladimir Tkachuk (virtual) in Forbes 2070C
    On discrete and disjoint shrinking properties — Vladimir Tkachuk
  - 11:10 AM: Leonard Rubin in Forbes 2070C
    Characterizing Strong Infinite-Dimension, Weak Infinite-Dimension, and Dimension in Inverse Systems — Leonard Rubin
12:00 PM: Lunch
01:30 PM: Plenary Talk: Jason Manning in Forbes 1022
Drilling and Filling in (relatively) hyperbolic groups — Jason Manning
02:45 PM: Parallel Sessions
- Applied Topology - Sat. PM in Forbes 1022
  - 02:45 PM: Johnathan Bush in Forbes 1022
    The connectivity of Vietoris-Rips complexes of spheres — Johnathan Bush
  - 03:10 PM: William Ott (virtual) in Forbes 1022
    Efficient evader detection in mobile sensor networks — William Ott
  - 03:35 PM: Ziqin Feng (virtual) in Forbes 1022
    Independence Complexes of Kneser Graphs — Ziqin Feng
- Continuum Theory - Sat. PM in Forbes 2070A
  - 02:45 PM: Bryant Rosado Silva (virtual) in Forbes 2070A
    Generalizations of the notion of a hereditarily equivalent continuum — Bryant Rosado Silva
  - 03:10 PM: Hugo Villanueva in Forbes 2070A
    On increasing and persistent Whitney properties — Hugo Villanueva
  - 03:35 PM: Jorge E. Vega in Forbes 2070A
    More on the hyperspace of non-cut subcontinua of a continuum — Jorge E. Vega
- Dynamical Systems - Sat. PM in Forbes 2070D
  - 02:45 PM: Constantine Medynets in Forbes 2070D
    Full Groups of Cantor Dynamical Systems: Characters and Invariant Measures — Constantine Medynets
  - 03:10 PM: Elyssa Stephens in Forbes 2070D
    Neighborhood N-Shadowing — Elyssa Stephens
  - 03:35 PM: Jonathan Meddaugh (virtual) in Forbes 2070D
    Specification and $\omega$-chaos in non-compact systems — Jonathan Meddaugh
- Geometric Group Theory - Sat. PM in Forbes 2070E
  - 02:45 PM: Yu-Chan Chang (virtual) in Forbes 2070E
    The RAAG Recognition Problem for Bestvina--Brady Groups — Yu-Chan Chang
  - 03:10 PM: Eduardo Reyes (virtual) in Forbes 2070E
    Green metrics on hyperbolic groups and reparameterizations of the geodesic flow — Eduardo Reyes
04:00 PM: Coffee Break
04:15 PM: Plenary Talk: David Kerr in Forbes 1022
Suspending the pigeonhole principle: amenability, dynamics, and C*-algebras — David Kerr