Topology Festival

1–3 May 2026

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You are cordially invited to the 61st annual Cornell Topology Festival, which will be held in Ithaca, Friday May 1 – Sunday May 3, 2026. The program will have an emphasis on the topic of Degenerations and moduli spaces, will feature several one-hour talks, and will offer much opportunity for conversation. The meeting will begin with workshop talks aimed at introducing some of the main themes of the conference. The invited speakers will also participate in a panel discussion on recent developments in topology and related fields. Social activities will include two working luncheons and a picnic.

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Speakers Samantha Allen, Duquesne University Thomas Brazelton, Harvard University Corey Bregman, Tufts University Danny Calegari, University of Chicago Dawei Chen, Boston College Jingyin Huang, The Ohio State University Christopher Leininger, Rice University Rohini Ramadas, Emory University Kyler Siegel, University of Southern California Kirsten Wickelgren, Duke University

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Acknowledgements

The Topology Festival gratefully acknowledges the continuous support of the National Science Foundation since the Festival’s inception. Special thanks to Acme Klein Bottle, purveyors of “the finest closed, non-orientable, boundary-free manifolds sold anywhere in our three spatial dimensions,” for donating a prize for many years.