Welcome!
...to the Geometry/Topology website
Members of the Geometry/Topology Group at MSU work in many different fields and have expertise in a diverse set of techniques. We have lively and well-attended seminars, and one of our key goals is the cross-pollination of ideas between geometry and topology.
Our faculty consists of active researchers in most areas of geometry and low-dimensional topology including smooth 4-manifolds, symplectic and contact topology and geometry, the theory of pseudoholomorphic maps, geometric PDE, knot theory and its invariants, mapping class groups, and geometric variational theory.
Our faculty is highly-regarded. Many have NSF Grants, two are coprincipal investigators of FRG's, and our group has been awarded two RTG Grants from the National Science Foundation.
The Geometry/Topology Group at MSU has a long-standing commitment to excellence in graduate and postdoctoral training: we have produced some outstanding graduate students, and we have been fortunate to have recruited and mentored exceptional postdoctoral fellows.
This Week's Seminars
- Colloquium:
- (02/13) Ovidiu Munteanu (Columbia University), "The geometry and topology of Ricci solitons"
- Low Dimensional Topology:
- (02/14) John Pardon (Stanford), "Totally disconnected groups (not) acting on three manifolds"
- Student Geometry/Topology:
- (02/16) Luke Williams (MSU), "Generalized nuclei and exotic structures"
Times and locations of this week's seminars
