VIGRE: Math 699 | ||
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Meeting time and place: Fridays from 3-4:30pm in Herman Brown 427 Instructors: Tim Cochran and Shelly Harvey | ||
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Faculty:
Shelly Harvey John Hempel Andy Putman Postdocs:
Ina Petkova
Corey Bregman David Cohen (fall) James Cooper Taylor Martin Taylor McNeill Jung Hwan Park Katherine Poulsen Arunima Ray Diego Vela |
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| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| 1-14 | Eamonn Tweedy | Bordered Heegaard Floer Homology |
| 1-22 | Tim Cochran | A differential-topological proof of Stallings' theorem about Homology and Lower central series of groups |
| 1-29 | Aru Ray | A brisk introduction to Legendrian/transverse knots and (maybe) the slice-Bennequin inequality |
| 2-5 | Katherine Poulsen | A Note on the Growth of Betti Numbers and Ranks of 3-Manifold Groups by Stefan Friedl |
| 2-12 | James Cooper | The abelianization of odd prime level congruence subgroups of the mapping class group |
| 2-19 | Corey Bregman | Hyperbolic Groups and Growth |
| 2-26 | No seminar - spring break | |
| 3-5 | Anthony Bosman | Link Concordance Implies Homotopy |
| 3-19 | Kenan Ince | S-equivalence of knots |
| 3-26 | Diego Vela | Homology with twisted coefficients and examples |
| 4-2 | Jung Hwan Park | The Algebraic unknotting number |
| 4-16 | Taylor McNeill | Introduction to surface braid groups |
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| 8-31 | Anthony Bosman | Bott Periodicity |
| 9-7 | Eamonn Tweedy | Rasmussen's s-invariant from Khovanov homology |
| 9-14 | David Cohen | Spectral Sequences |
| 9-21 | Aru Ray | Symmetries of Knots |
| 9-28 | Taylor McNeill | The pure braid groups and the Milnors invariants of links/td> |
| 10-5 | Katherine Poulsen | "Grid diagrams and the Ozsvath-Szabo Tau invariant" by Sucharit Sarkar. |
| 10-12 | No seminar - fall break | |
| 10-19 | James Cooper | A survey of the work of Fox, Magnus, and Zassenhaus on the study of free groups |
| 10-26 | Diego Vela | On stable 4-genus of knots |
| 11-2 | Corey Bregman | Gromov's theorem about groups of polynomial growth |
| 11-9 | Taylor Martin | Strong S-equivalence of ordered links by Carol Gee |
| 11-16 | Jung Hwan Park | Intersection forms and four manifolds |
| 11-22 | No seminar - Thanksgiving | |
| 11-30 | Ina Petkova | A_infinity structures in bordered Floer homology - definitions and motivation |