2024 Lloyd Roeling UL Lafayette Mathematics Conference

On 15-17 March 2024, the Mathematics Department hosted the 2024 Lloyd Roeling UL Lafayette Mathematics Conference. The topic this year was Algebraic Topology and the conference was supported by NSF grant #2341618 in addition to departmental funds. The conference was a great success and sparked many fruitful interactions between the participants. There were 27 participants, 6 invited talks, 8 contributed talks.

We welcomed participants from Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas, Illinois, Washington, Florida, Colorado, Ohio, Maryland, California, Mexico, and Australia. Universities represented included Florida State University, Johns Hopkins University, Louisiana State University, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Texas A&M University, Texas Tech University, Tulane University, University of California Berkeley, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), University of Colorado Boulder, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, University of Melbourne, University of Washington, and Vanderbilt University.

The Invited Talk speakers were (click for title and abstract):

• Omar Antolín Camarena (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
• Christin Bibby (Louisiana State University)
• Irina Bobkova (Texas A&M University)
• Peter Haine (UC Berkeley)
• Kalina Mincheva (Tulane University)
• Marcy Robertson (University of Melbourne)

The Contributed Talk speakers were (click for title and abstract):

• Milind Gunjal (Florida State)
• Hannah Housden (Vanderbilt University)
• Dmitri Pavlov (Texas Tech University)
• Sarah Petersen (University of Colorado)
• Ben Szczesny (Ohio State University)
• Andrew Tawfeek (University of Washington)
• Jonathon Villareal (UL Lafayette)
• Noah Wisdom (Northwestern University)

Please visit the conference webpage for additional information about the conference.