Topological research at UCLA began with the arrival of Robert Sorgenfrey in 1942. High points in the research accomplishments of topologists at UCLA include the solution by
Robion Kirby, who was at UCLA from 1965 to 1971, (with Laurence Siebenmann) of four of the seven problems listed by John Milnor in 1963 as the most important in topology at that
time. Kirby first presented his famous torus trick, the key to the solutions, in a UCLA seminar in the summer of 1968. Another of the Milnor problems, the Double Suspension
Conjecture was solved by Robert Edwards, who came to UCLA in 1970 and remained here until his retirement in 2006. The accomplishments of Allan Hatcher, who was at UCLA from
1976 until 1984, include the proof of the Smale Conjecture (published in 1983).
There is
a
Google
group mailing list that announces topology seminars occuring in
UCLA; to be included in the mailing list, apply through the Google
group webpage, or
contact
Ko Honda
or
Sucharit
Sarkar. The following seminars occur in or around UCLA.
Some of these events are recorded on the following two Google calendars, which you may add to your own
calendar using these ICAL links:
Topology Seminar,
Joint Topology Seminar;
see for instance this
how-to.
Here is a list of some recent topology workshops (co-)organized by UCLA topologists.