VIGRE: Math 699 | ||
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Meeting time and place: Tuesdays from 1-2pm in Herman Brown 453 Instructors: Tim Cochran and Shelly Harvey | ||
Current Participants (listed in alphabetic order):
Shelly Harvey John Hempel Andy Putman Postdocs:
Prudence Heck Elena Pavelescu
Taylor Coon James Cooper Chris Davis Bridget Franklin Taylor McNeill Carolyn Otto Arunima Ray Daniel Tanner |
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| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| 1-18 | Tim Cochran | Link Concordance: History and Open Problems |
| 1-25 | Bridget Franklin | On the Twisted Alexander Polynomial for Metabelian representations in SL(2,C) by Yoshikazu and Yamaguchi |
| 2-1 | Tim Cochran | Elementary Ideas of Surgery or spherical modification of manifolds |
| 2-8 | Elena Pavelescu | The Bennequin Number, Kauffman Polynomial, and Ruling Invariants of A Legendrian Link, by Dan Rutherford |
| 2-15 | Chris Davis | Relationships between various signature invariants for knots due to S. Friedl |
| 2-22 | Prudence Heck | Representations of the Braid Group (Burau and Krammer) |
| 3-1 | No seminar - spring break | |
| 3-8 | David Cohen | Finite Spaces |
| 3-15 | Carolyn Otto | Skein relations for Milnor's invariants by Michal Polyak |
| 3-22 | Taylor Coon | TBA |
| 3-29 | Taylor McNeill | TBA |
| 4-5 | TBA | |
| 4-12 | TBA | |
| 4-19 | Aru Ray | TBA |
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| 8-24 | Taylor Coon | Clasp-pass moves on knots, links and spatial graphs (part II) by K. Taniyama and A. Yasuhara |
| 8-31 | Tim Cochran | Conway polynomial of knots and links |
| 9-7 | Andy Putman | The Johnson homomorphism and the abelianization of the Torelli group |
| 9-14 | Taylor McNeill | Infinite generation of the kernels of the Magnus and Burau representations by Thomas Church and Benson Frab |
| 9-28 | Elena Pavelescu | Invariants of contact structures from open books by John Etnyre and Burak Ozbagci |
| 10-5 | Bridget Franklin | Knot Doubling Operators and Bordered Heegaard Floer Homology by Adam Levine |
| 10-12 | Midterm Recess - no seminar | |
| 10-19 | Carolyn Otto | Null k-cobordant links in S^3 by X-S. Lin |
| 10-26 | Dan Tanner | An Introduction to Fox Calculus |
| 11-2 | Spencer Dowdall (University of Chicago) | ***Topology Seminar Speaker*** |
| 11-9 | Prudence Heck | Amenable L2-theoretic methods and knot concordance by Jae Choon Cha |
| 11-16 | Chris Davis | Generalized Seifert Surfaces and Signatures of Colored Links by by David Cimisoni and Vincent Florens |
| 11-23 | no seminar | |
| 11-30 | Danielle O'Donnol | Sutured Floer homology |