VIGRE: Math 699 Section 1: Current Topics in Topology: Fall 2009 - Spring 2010


Meeting time and place: Tuesdays from 1-2pm in Herman Brown 423
Instructors: Tim Cochran and Shelly Harvey


Participants (listed in alphabetic order):

Schedule:

Tim Cochran
DateSpeakerTopic
8/25/09organizational meeting
9/1/09Chris DavisA brief introduction to simple homotopy theory and torsion
9/8/09Chris DavisA brief introduction to simple homotopy theory and torsion, con't.
9/15/09Danielle O'DonnolA Refinement of Conway-Gordon's Theorem by Ryo Nikkuni
9/22/09Bridget FranklinThe effect of the (n,1) cabling operation on concordance classes of knots
9/29/09Elena PavelescuOn transversally simple knots by J. Birman and N. Wrinkle
10/27/09Andrew ElliottBounds on the s invariant
11/3/09no seminar
11/10/09Carolyn OttoTBA
11/17/09Taylor McNeillTBA
11/24/09Shelly HarveyTBA
12/2/09TBA

Link to last year's seminar.
Please send all comments to Shelly Harvey (svhvevlvlvyvvvvv at rice dot edu, take out the v's)