Zygotop seminar

The zygotop seminar is organized by a fixed graduate student for a calendar year at a time, ideally beginning in the spring semester of their second year. This student is endowed with the following responsibilities:

• At the beginning of the semester, schedule a room weekly, ideally for a 3 hour period.
• Find speakers for the seminar, and assist speakers with choosing talk topics if requested to do so.
• Maintain an accessible communication network via signal or a mailing list.
• Maintain a seminar website.
• Shortly before talks, bug the speaker for a title and abstract; subsequently announce the talk via the communication network and update the website.
• Announce the speaker to begin each talk, call the audience to applaud and ask questions after the talk, and lead a second applause after a reasonable number of questions.

We ask that talks satisfy the following conditions:

• Each talk is made reasonably accessible to all graduate students in the homotopy theory group.
• Talk topics follow the interests of particular speakers, not an overarching narrative dictated by the organizer.
• The speaker accepts all questions, and the audience understands that no question is too basic to be asked.

We ask that the seminar websites satisfy the following conditions:

• The website links to this page or contains a hard copy of compliant organizational principles.
• Websites reside on relatively permanent domains, i.e. not on personal websites or Harvard or MIT's servers.
• Old seminar websites link or redirect to strictly newer ones, which are current as long as the owner of the old website is a graduate student.
• The "past talks" page contains a complete history of zygotop talks.