Carolina Topology Seminar

The Carolina Topology Seminar is a research seminar on topics in topology and its applications that are of interest to the participants. These topics currently include general topology, set-theoretic topology, set theory, and to a lesser extent, real analysis, complex Hilbert spaces and interactions between topology, logic, matroid theory and relativity. Presentations at the seminar include talks by invited visitors, talks on research by the participants, presentation of papers of interest to the seminar, and presentation of student work, including topics from master's thesis and Ph.D. dissertations.

The seminar has proudly welcomed many distinguished guest speakers over the years. Speakers from the USA include Andreas Blass (Ann Arbor, MI) William Fleissner (Lawrence, KS), Paul Gartside (Pittsburgh, PA), Judy Roitman(Lawrence, KS), and Scott Williams (Buffalo, NY). International speakers include: A.V. Arhangelskii (Moscow), K.P. Hart (Delft), Istvan Juhasz, (Budapest), Jan van Mill (Amsterdam), Akihiro Okuyama (Kobe), Petr Simon (Prague), Paul Szeptycki (Toronto), Vladimir Tkachuk (Mexico City), Pankaj Joshi (Mumbai, India).

The origin of the seminar can be traced back to a series of mini-conferences that met once or twice a year mostly at UNC-Greensboro, but also at other universities and colleges in the Carolinas and Virginia, beginning around 1974. In the 1990's the mini-conferences were replaced by a series special sessions at fall meetings of the Southeastern Section of the American Mathematical Society. In 2000 the seminar as currently constituted began meeting approximately every two weeks. Occasionally, photos of participants are posted here.

Some photographs from the Carolina Topology Seminar
(back to April, 2000)

(Names are not necessarily repeated, if they can be deduced from previous photographs.)


Seminar meeting 29 June 2019. Newest members, Lori Alvin (center) and Lynne Yengulalp (third from right).


Seminar meeting 28 October 2017. Newest member, Will Brian (first from right). Guest speaker, Istvan Juhasz (second from right).
Juhasz is also pictured in the photo in 2000.


Seminar members and previous guest seminar speakers at the New Jersey City University Spring Topology Conference March 10, 2017.
Kris Ciesielski (center, facing left) was a seminar member 1988/1989.
In middle of the bright display is Ted Porter, an innocent bystander.


Five from the seminar at Summer Topology Conference 2016 in Leicester.


Three from the seminar at TOPOSYM 2016 in Prague.


Seminar meeting, 7 May 2016.


Seminar back at UNC-Charlotte, 5 December, 2015.
Newest member, Steven Clontz, third from left.


Seminar attendees at the First Pan Pacific International Conference on
Topology and its Applications, Minnan University, Zhangzhou, China.


Four from the seminar at the Summer Topology Conference at the National University of Ireland at Galway, June 25, 2015.
The unindicted co-conspirator in the red cap is K. P. Hart.


Five from the seminar at the Spring Topology Conference at Bowling Green State University (Ohio), May 15, 2015.
The newest member of the seminar is Rodrigo Hernández-Gutiérrez, front, right.


Two from the Seminar at the Summer Topology Conference, College of Staten Island, 25 July 2014. The two
innocent bystanders in the middle are Michael Hrušák and Jocelyn Bell.


The seminar is back in Charlotte, 1 June 2001. Joe Goldston, front row, left.


The first seminar meeting at UNC-Pemborke, 8 September 2012. Visitor Guo Wei is on the right.


Judy Roitman, guest speaker (center), Reid Harris (behind Roitman) and
Earl Hampton (on the right) (October 15, 2011).


Two from the IVth Workshop on Coverings, Selections, and Games
in Topology, Caserta, Italy, 25-30 June 2012.


Three from the seminar at the Appalachian Set Theory Workshop
(Chicago) October 15, 2011.


Three from the seminar at the Prague Topology Symposium (August 2011)
and an innocent bystander outside, Petr Simon.


Visitor, Cetin Vural (Gazi Univesity, Ankara) (on right in back row) (16 April 2011)


Guest speaker Paul Szeptycki (back row center, in short sleeves) (19 February 2011)


Guest speaker Paul Gartside (center, back row) Michael Blackmon (left, back row).
Gabi Atim and Heather Gamel (front row, rightmost two) (23 October 2010)


Eleven from the seminar at the AMS special session in Set-theoretic Topology
at The University of Alabama, Huntsville (25 October 2008)


First row on the left: Doyle Barman. Second row, second from left: Leszek
Piatkiewicz, third from left: Vladimir Tkachuk (September 13, 2008)


Three from the seminar in Mexico; on the left is
Roberto Pichardo-Mendoza (July 31, 2008)


Four from the seminar in Sicily (June 14, 2008)


Front row, center: Raushan Buzyakova. (Jan 13, 2007)


Participants not named below: Front row: Shiuli Ganguli and Oleg Pavlov (far right);
second row from the left: Jan van Mill, Akira Iwasa, Igor Erovenko, Greg Bell,
Jonathan Verner, David Chodounsky(August 13, 2005)


front row: Jerry Vaughan, Bob Stephenson, Dick Hodel;
back row: Geta Techanie, Jan Rychtar, Peter Nyikos, Udaykumar Vyas, Alan Dow
(February 5, 2005)


front row: Katie Mawhinney, Ellen Mir, Bob Stephenson, Dick Hodel,
Jerry Vaughan; Alan Dow, Shura Arhangelskii, Peter Nyikos, Jan Rychtar,
Geta Techanie, Laszlo Zsilinszky (October 2, 2004)


The normal Moore space problem. Guest, William Fleissner (left)
and Peter Nyikos (October 25, 2003)


Alex Chigogidze (left), Petr Simon (right) and the usual suspects (July 26, 2003)


Guest, Petr Simon(July 19, 2003)


Alan Dow, Geta Techanie, Peter Nyikos, Dick Hodel,
Robert Stephenson, Jerry Vaughan (February 23, 2003)


Alan Dow, Scott Williams, Dick Hodel, Jerry Vaughan (June 23, 2001)


Alan Dow, Jerry Vaughan, Laszlo Zsilinszky, Katie Mawhinney,
Bryan Cabbage, Peter Nyikos, Dick Hodel (27 January 2001)


Alan Dow, Dick Hodel, Jerry Vaughan (July 8, 2000)


Gary Faulkner, Dick Hodel, Bob Stephenson, Istvan Juhasz
(April 8, 2000)