Current Seminars
Upcoming Seminars
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TGS: Topology Seminar: Notes from a search for knots
Location: Evans Hall, 939 Speakers: Jason DeBlois (University of Pittsburgh)This seminar series will take place on UC Berkeley campus, in Evans Hall room 939.
I will give some details of a successful search, joint with Arshia Gharagozlou and Neil Hoffman, for knot complements in $S^3$ with two properties — (1) they admit complete hyperbolic structures containing closed, embedded totally geodesic surfaces, and (2) they have hidden symmetries — among covering spaces of the rich class of “prism orbifolds”. Key search phases were pre-filtering: ruling out the prism orbifolds that wouldn’t yield knot complement covers; enumeration; filtering out covers lacking necessary conditions to be knot complements; and recognizing knot complements. I’ll describe the computational tools we used and the theoretical results undergirding them.
Updated on Mar 23, 2026 08:21 AM PDT -
Pseudo-Anosov flows seminar
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Feb 25, 2026 09:24 AM PST -
GDLG Seminar
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/Virtual Speakers: Wooyeon Kim (Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS))Updated on Mar 18, 2026 07:55 AM PDT -
GDLG Seminar
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/Virtual Speakers: Ursula Hamenstädt (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)Updated on Jan 21, 2026 03:57 PM PST -
TGS: 3-manifold seminar
Location: Evans Hall, 939This seminar series will take place on UC Berkeley campus, in Evans Hall room 939.
Updated on Jan 22, 2026 12:28 PM PST -
TGS: Topology Seminar
Location: Evans Hall, 740This seminar series will take place on UC Berkeley campus, in Evans Hall room 740.
Updated on Jan 22, 2026 12:34 PM PST -
Reading Group: Surface homeomorphism group and fine curve graph
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Mar 17, 2026 08:23 AM PDT -
TGS Seminar
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Feb 25, 2026 09:44 AM PST -
Superrigidity Seminar
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 12, 2026 08:23 AM PST -
HHG Reading Group
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 09, 2026 07:43 AM PST -
Reading Group: Kleinian Groups - The Ending Lamination Conjecture and Tameness
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Feb 25, 2026 09:29 AM PST -
Reading Group Big Mapping Class Groups
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 23, 2026 10:33 AM PST -
Reading Group: Re-GRAD Seminar
Location: SLMath: Baker Board Room Speakers: Wooyeon Kim (Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS))Updated on Feb 11, 2026 01:28 PM PST -
Study group on Heegaard Floer theory and pseudo-Anosov flows
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 12, 2026 08:05 AM PST -
Computation in geometric topology: pA flows and transverse foliations: a brute force approach
Location: SLMath: Baker Board Room Speakers: Jonathan Zung (SLMath)Given a pseudo-Anosov flow on a 3-manifold, when does it admit a transverse foliation? The machinery of veering triangulations is well-adapted to a computational approach to this problem. I will explain some of the computational challenges as well as intriguing patterns that arise in the search for transverse foliations.
Updated on Mar 23, 2026 08:31 AM PDT -
Reading Group: Thermodynamic formalism for Anosov flows
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 03, 2026 12:37 PM PST -
Getting dirty with foliations
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomCreated on Mar 24, 2026 09:21 AM PDT -
Graduate Student Seminar
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 09, 2026 09:16 AM PST -
Pseudo-Anosov flows seminar
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Feb 25, 2026 09:24 AM PST -
GDLG Seminar
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Jan 21, 2026 03:57 PM PST -
TGS: 3-manifold seminar
Location: Evans Hall, 939This seminar series will take place on UC Berkeley campus, in Evans Hall room 939.
Updated on Jan 22, 2026 12:28 PM PST -
TGS: Topology Seminar: Singularity of Cannon-Thurston maps
Speakers: Caglar Uyanik (University of Wisconsin-Madison)This seminar series will take place on UC Berkeley campus, in Evans Hall room 740.
Updated on Jan 26, 2026 03:20 PM PST -
Reading Group: Surface homeomorphism group and fine curve graph
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Mar 17, 2026 08:25 AM PDT -
TGS Seminar
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Feb 25, 2026 09:45 AM PST -
Superrigidity Seminar
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 12, 2026 08:23 AM PST -
HHG Reading Group
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 09, 2026 07:43 AM PST -
Reading Group: Kleinian Groups - The Ending Lamination Conjecture and Tameness
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Feb 25, 2026 09:30 AM PST -
Reading Group Big Mapping Class Groups
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 23, 2026 10:33 AM PST -
Reading Group: Re-GRAD Seminar
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 11, 2026 01:29 PM PST -
Study group on Heegaard Floer theory and pseudo-Anosov flows
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 12, 2026 08:06 AM PST -
Computation in geometric topology
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 12, 2026 08:01 AM PST -
Reading Group: Thermodynamic formalism for Anosov flows
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 03, 2026 12:37 PM PST -
Getting dirty with foliations
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomCreated on Mar 24, 2026 09:21 AM PDT -
Graduate Student Seminar
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 09, 2026 09:16 AM PST -
Pseudo-Anosov flows seminar
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Feb 25, 2026 09:24 AM PST -
GDLG Seminar
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Jan 21, 2026 03:57 PM PST -
TGS: 3-manifold seminar
Location: Evans Hall, 939This seminar series will take place on UC Berkeley campus, in Evans Hall room 939.
Updated on Jan 22, 2026 12:28 PM PST -
TGS: Topology Seminar
Location: Evans Hall, 740This seminar series will take place on UC Berkeley campus, in Evans Hall room 740.
Updated on Jan 22, 2026 12:34 PM PST -
Professional Development Series
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Feb 09, 2026 01:12 PM PST -
Reading Group: Surface homeomorphism group and fine curve graph
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Mar 17, 2026 08:25 AM PDT -
TGS Seminar
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Feb 25, 2026 09:46 AM PST -
Superrigidity Seminar
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 12, 2026 08:23 AM PST -
HHG Reading Group
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 09, 2026 07:43 AM PST -
Reading Group: Kleinian Groups - The Ending Lamination Conjecture and Tameness
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Feb 25, 2026 09:30 AM PST -
Reading Group Big Mapping Class Groups
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 23, 2026 10:33 AM PST -
Reading Group: Re-GRAD Seminar
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 11, 2026 01:30 PM PST -
Study group on Heegaard Floer theory and pseudo-Anosov flows
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 12, 2026 08:06 AM PST -
Computation in geometric topology
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 12, 2026 08:01 AM PST -
SSL Colloquium
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud AuditoriumUpdated on Oct 27, 2025 10:22 AM PDT -
Reading Group: Thermodynamic formalism for Anosov flows
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 03, 2026 12:37 PM PST -
Getting dirty with foliations
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomCreated on Mar 24, 2026 09:21 AM PDT -
Graduate Student Seminar
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 09, 2026 09:16 AM PST -
TGS: 3-manifold seminar
Location: Evans Hall, 939This seminar series will take place on UC Berkeley campus, in Evans Hall room 939.
Updated on Jan 22, 2026 12:28 PM PST -
TGS: Topology Seminar
Location: Evans Hall, 740This seminar series will take place on UC Berkeley campus, in Evans Hall room 740.
Updated on Jan 22, 2026 12:34 PM PST -
Getting dirty with foliations
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomCreated on Mar 24, 2026 09:21 AM PDT -
Pseudo-Anosov flows seminar
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Feb 25, 2026 09:25 AM PST -
GDLG Seminar
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Jan 21, 2026 03:57 PM PST -
TGS: 3-manifold seminar
Location: Evans Hall, 939This seminar series will take place on UC Berkeley campus, in Evans Hall room 939.
Updated on Jan 22, 2026 12:28 PM PST -
TGS: Topology Seminar
Location: Evans Hall, 740This seminar series will take place on UC Berkeley campus, in Evans Hall room 740.
Updated on Jan 22, 2026 12:34 PM PST -
Getting dirty with foliations
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomCreated on Mar 24, 2026 09:21 AM PDT -
Pseudo-Anosov flows seminar
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Feb 25, 2026 09:25 AM PST -
GDLG Seminar
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Jan 21, 2026 03:57 PM PST -
TGS: 3-manifold seminar
Location: Evans Hall, 939This seminar series will take place on UC Berkeley campus, in Evans Hall room 939.
Updated on Jan 22, 2026 12:28 PM PST -
TGS: Topology Seminar
Location: Evans Hall, 740This seminar series will take place on UC Berkeley campus, in Evans Hall room 740.
Updated on Jan 22, 2026 12:34 PM PST -
Professional Development Series
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Feb 11, 2026 09:08 AM PST -
Reading Group: Surface homeomorphism group and fine curve graph
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Mar 17, 2026 08:26 AM PDT -
TGS Seminar
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Feb 25, 2026 09:46 AM PST -
Superrigidity Seminar
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 12, 2026 08:23 AM PST -
HHG Reading Group
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 09, 2026 07:43 AM PST -
Reading Group: Kleinian Groups - The Ending Lamination Conjecture and Tameness
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Feb 25, 2026 09:33 AM PST -
Reading Group Big Mapping Class Groups
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 23, 2026 10:34 AM PST -
Reading Group: Re-GRAD Seminar
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 11, 2026 01:32 PM PST -
Study group on Heegaard Floer theory and pseudo-Anosov flows
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 12, 2026 08:07 AM PST -
Computation in geometric topology
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 12, 2026 08:01 AM PST -
SSL Colloquium
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud AuditoriumUpdated on Oct 27, 2025 10:23 AM PDT -
Reading Group: Thermodynamic formalism for Anosov flows
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 03, 2026 12:37 PM PST -
Getting dirty with foliations
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomCreated on Mar 24, 2026 09:21 AM PDT -
Graduate Student Seminar
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 09, 2026 09:16 AM PST -
Pseudo-Anosov flows seminar
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Feb 25, 2026 09:25 AM PST -
GDLG Seminar
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Jan 21, 2026 03:57 PM PST -
TGS: 3-manifold seminar
Location: Evans Hall, 939This seminar series will take place on UC Berkeley campus, in Evans Hall room 939.
Updated on Jan 22, 2026 12:28 PM PST -
TGS: Topology Seminar
Location: Evans Hall, 740This seminar series will take place on UC Berkeley campus, in Evans Hall room 740.
Updated on Jan 22, 2026 12:34 PM PST -
Reading Group: Surface homeomorphism group and fine curve graph
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Mar 17, 2026 08:27 AM PDT -
TGS Seminar
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Feb 25, 2026 09:47 AM PST -
Superrigidity Seminar
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 12, 2026 08:23 AM PST -
HHG Reading Group
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 09, 2026 07:43 AM PST -
Reading Group: Kleinian Groups - The Ending Lamination Conjecture and Tameness
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Feb 25, 2026 09:34 AM PST -
Reading Group Big Mapping Class Groups
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 23, 2026 10:34 AM PST -
Reading Group: Re-GRAD Seminar
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 11, 2026 01:32 PM PST -
Study group on Heegaard Floer theory and pseudo-Anosov flows
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 12, 2026 08:07 AM PST -
Computation in geometric topology
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 12, 2026 08:01 AM PST -
Reading Group: Thermodynamic formalism for Anosov flows
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 03, 2026 12:37 PM PST -
Getting dirty with foliations
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomCreated on Mar 24, 2026 09:21 AM PDT -
Graduate Student Seminar
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 09, 2026 09:16 AM PST -
Pseudo-Anosov flows seminar
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Feb 25, 2026 09:26 AM PST -
GDLG Seminar
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Jan 21, 2026 03:57 PM PST -
TGS: Topology Seminar
Location: Evans Hall, 740This seminar series will take place on UC Berkeley campus, in Evans Hall room 740.
Updated on Jan 22, 2026 12:34 PM PST -
Reading Group: Surface homeomorphism group and fine curve graph
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Mar 17, 2026 08:28 AM PDT -
Superrigidity Seminar
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 12, 2026 08:23 AM PST -
HHG Reading Group
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 09, 2026 07:43 AM PST -
Reading Group: Kleinian Groups - The Ending Lamination Conjecture and Tameness
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/VirtualUpdated on Feb 25, 2026 09:34 AM PST -
Reading Group Big Mapping Class Groups
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 23, 2026 10:35 AM PST -
Reading Group: Re-GRAD Seminar
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 11, 2026 01:32 PM PST -
Study group on Heegaard Floer theory and pseudo-Anosov flows
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 12, 2026 08:08 AM PST -
Computation in geometric topology
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 12, 2026 08:01 AM PST -
Reading Group: Thermodynamic formalism for Anosov flows
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 03, 2026 12:37 PM PST -
Getting dirty with foliations
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomCreated on Mar 24, 2026 09:21 AM PDT -
Graduate Student Seminar
Location: SLMath: Baker Board RoomUpdated on Feb 09, 2026 09:16 AM PST
Past Seminars
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Seminar Graduate Student Seminar: Geometric Inflexibility and its Consequences
Updated on Mar 13, 2026 08:35 AM PDT -
Seminar Computation in geometric topology: Some algorithmically "easy" and "hard" problems in knot theory and 3-manifold topology
Updated on Mar 13, 2026 09:54 AM PDT -
Seminar Reading Group: Thermodynamic formalism for Anosov flows
Updated on Feb 03, 2026 12:37 PM PST -
Seminar Study group on Heegaard Floer theory and pseudo-Anosov flows
Updated on Feb 12, 2026 08:05 AM PST -
Seminar Reading Group: Re-GRAD Seminar: Proof of the classification of horospherical invariant measures
Updated on Mar 13, 2026 08:29 AM PDT -
Seminar Mathematics Department Colloquium: A tale of three unknotting conjectures
Updated on Mar 16, 2026 08:55 AM PDT -
Seminar Reading Group Big Mapping Class Groups: Large Scale geometry of big mapping class groups
Updated on Mar 13, 2026 08:32 AM PDT -
Seminar Reading Group: Kleinian Groups - The Ending Lamination Conjecture and Tameness
Updated on Feb 25, 2026 09:28 AM PST -
Seminar Representations of binary by quaternary quadratic form
Updated on Mar 17, 2026 08:52 AM PDT -
Seminar HHG Reading Group
Updated on Feb 09, 2026 07:43 AM PST -
Seminar Superrigidity Seminar: Chain geometry and rigidity for maximal representations of complex hyperbolic lattices
Updated on Mar 16, 2026 03:04 PM PDT -
Seminar Distorted and quasi-reducible diffeomorphisms of one-manifolds (joint work with Emmanuel Militon)
Updated on Mar 12, 2026 10:42 AM PDT -
Seminar This is for the Intro to Sutured Manifolds and Taut Foliations reading group
Updated on Mar 16, 2026 10:41 AM PDT -
Seminar Reading Group: Surface homeomorphism group and fine curve graph
Updated on Mar 16, 2026 08:18 AM PDT -
Seminar Professional Development Series: Industry Jobs
Updated on Mar 16, 2026 08:25 AM PDT -
Seminar TGS: Topology Seminar: The unknotting number of $10_6$ is....
Updated on Mar 12, 2026 09:25 AM PDT -
Seminar On indefinite integral ternary quadratic forms
Updated on Mar 06, 2026 10:06 AM PST -
Seminar TGS: 3-manifold seminar: Peano curve for the figure eight fiber
Updated on Mar 12, 2026 11:37 AM PDT -
Seminar Classification of locally homogeneous geometric structures
Updated on Mar 03, 2026 09:50 AM PST -
Seminar Logarithm laws on the almost sure spiraling of geodesics
Updated on Mar 16, 2026 07:41 AM PDT -
Seminar Pseudo-Anosov flows seminar: Veering branched surfaces from Handel-Miller theory
Updated on Mar 10, 2026 02:34 PM PDT -
Seminar Graduate Student Seminar: Quantifying shape and position of discreteness loci in PSL(2,C)
Updated on Mar 06, 2026 09:24 AM PST -
Seminar Reading Group: Re-GRAD Seminar: Averaging over dilated submanifolds for higher rank actions
Updated on Mar 05, 2026 02:55 PM PST -
Seminar Reading Group: Thermodynamic formalism for Anosov flows
Updated on Feb 03, 2026 12:37 PM PST -
Seminar SSL Colloquium: Understanding the solar variability with COFFIES
Updated on Mar 10, 2026 10:05 AM PDT -
Seminar Computation in geometric topology: Searching for the smallest special cover of the figure-8 complement
Updated on Mar 06, 2026 04:21 PM PST -
Seminar Study group on Heegaard Floer theory and pseudo-Anosov flows
Updated on Feb 12, 2026 08:04 AM PST -
Seminar Reading Group Big Mapping Class Groups: Introduction to Geometric Group Theory for Huge Groups
Updated on Mar 11, 2026 12:45 PM PDT -
Seminar Reading Group: Kleinian Groups - The Ending Lamination Conjecture and Tameness
Updated on Feb 25, 2026 09:28 AM PST -
Seminar HHG Reading Group
Updated on Feb 09, 2026 07:43 AM PST