the Richmond Geometry Meeting 2025

New Trends in Homological Invariants

Virginia Commonwealth University

September 19-21, 2025


The Richmond Geometry Meeting will focus on emergent research topics while bringing together researchers in algebraic geometry, low-dimensional topology, and mathematical physics. In summer 2025, we will highlight new trends in homological invariants.

This meeting is supported by NSF award DMS-2528113

Organizers

Speakers

  • Denis Auroux (Harvard University)

  • Rhea Palak Bakshi (University of California, Santa Barbara)

  • Mrunmay Jagadale (Caltech)

  • Ludmil Katzarkov (University of Miami, University of Vienna, and Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) - TBC

  • Mikhail Khovanov (Johns Hopkins University)

  • Yuya Murakami (Kyushu University)

  • Christine Ruey Shan Lee (Texas State University)

  • Matthew Stoffregen (Michigan State University)

  • Boyu Zhang (University of Maryland)

Panelists

TBA

Schedule

TBA. The conference will start in the early afternoon of Friday, September 19 and end in the early afternoon of Sunday, September 21, 2025.

Registration

All participants are kindly requested to register here.

Applications for funding are an optional part of the registration. If you apply for funding, please register by August 15.

Poster Session

The meeting will feature a poster session with the aim of showcasing research by early-career participants. Everyone is encouraged to apply to present their work at the poster session. The poster session application is an optional part of the registration.

Location

All lectures will be held in TEMPLE 1169 on VCU’s Monroe Park Campus.

Accommodations

TBA

Childcare

For participants wishing to arrange childcare in Richmond, VA, the Virginia Department of Social Services provides a child day care search tool here: Virginia Dept of Social Services Child Care Locator. Please select the search criterion ‘Richmond City’ or the nearby counties ‘Henrico’ or ‘Chesterfield.’ A list of contact information for providers with some drop-in childcare options can also be found here. Other childcare options in Richmond include the YMCA, numerous area churches, and the Weinstein JCC. It may also be possible to locate home daycare providers or babysitters for hire through Care.com.