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...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

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