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Welcome to the Advances in Modern Topology 2026

We are delighted to welcome you to the International Conference Advances in Modern Topology 2026, held for the first time in beautiful Podgorica. The conference will take place at the premises of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, a prestigious venue that reflects the spirit of academic excellence. Participants arrival is expected on October 4, and the conference starts on October 5.

Invited Speakers

Speaker Affiliation Talk title
Đorđe Baralić Mathematical Institute SANU Universal simplicial complexes and the Buchstaber invariant
Ulrich Bauer Technical University of Munich Persistence beyond data analysis: new interactions with geometry, topology, and algebra
Vladimir Dragović The University of Texas at Dallas Complexity of Lasso, Geometry and Combinatorics
Jelena Grbić University of Southampton, UK Topology and Combinatorics Uncovering Structures of Vietoris-Rips Complexes
Shintaro Kuroki Okayama University of Science Locally standard T-pseudomanifolds and their cohomology
Mikiya Masuda Osaka Metropolitan University Symmetric matrices defined by plane vector sequences
Taras Panov (online) Steklov Mathematical Institute New families of moment-angle manifolds diffeomorphic to connected sums of products of spheres
Petar Pavešić University of Ljubljana and Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana Parametrized LS category and group actions
Stephen Theriault University of Southampton Moment-angle manifolds associated to neighbourly triangulations of spheres
Rade Živaljević Mathematical Institute SANU, Belgrade Combinatorics, geometry, and topology of Bier spheres

Contributed talks

Speaker Affiliation Talk title
Semyon Abramyan ETH Zürich Embedding calculus for parallelized manifolds
Anshu Agarwal Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Regular genus of small covers over Δn−1 × I and Δ2 × Δ2
Stoyan Apostolov Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria Axiomatic degree theory for topological manifolds
Madhusudan Deval (online) Banaras Hindu University Some aspects of the TD axiom, sobriety and weak sobriety for topological systems
Marija Došljak University of Montenegro Topology of Spaces Associated with Special Hyperplane Arrangements, with Applications to Grassmannian Torus Orbit Spaces
Nilay Ekiz Yazıcı Bursa Technical University m-Contiguity Distance
Ioannis Gkeneralis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki How much of the homeomorphism type is determined in toric topology?
Doron Grossman-Naples University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Isogenies and Hecke Operators for Elliptic Cohomology
Sudarshan Gurjar (online) IIT Bombay Eilenberg-MacLane and Moore spaces in algebraic surface theory
Urban Ogrinec University of Ljubljana and Institute of Mathematics Parametrized LS category and group actions
Vladimir Ivanović University of Montenegro Moduli space of weighted pointed stable curves and toric topology of Grassmann manifolds Gn,2 for n = 5, 6

Registration

Please, complete the Registration form via: form.
Deadline for Registration: Sunday, August 01, 2026
Deadline for Abstract Submission: Monday, August 31, 2026

Programme and practical information

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Organizers

Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts

Organizing committee: Svjetlana Terzić, Vladimir Ivanović, Marija Došljak

Local Organizing committee: Predrag Miranović, Katarina Terzić, Jelena Pajović

You can contact the organizers via the official conference email: topology2026@canu.ac.me