Stulken Topology Seminar - Fall 2009 supported by the Edgar J. Stulken Fund

Information

Date	Name	Institution	Title (click for abstract if available)
8-31	John Hempel	Rice University	Reflections on distant curves
9-7	labor day - no classes
9-9*	Andrew Elliott	Rice University	Graphical methods establishing nontriviality of state cycle Khovanov homology classes
9-14	Prudence Heck	Rice University	Free concordance of null-homologous knots in acyclic manifolds
9-21	Tim Cochran	Rice University	An expository lecture on the classification of differentiable manifolds and the s-cobordism theorem
9-23*	Marian Moore	UC Davis	High distance knots in any 3-manifold (host=Iowa)
9-28	Tim Cochran	Rice University	A Gentle introduction to Massey Products
10-12	midterm recess - no classes
10-14*	Leah Childers	LSU	On the Automorphism Group of the Summetric Torelli Group (host=LSU)
10-19	Thomas Kerler	Ohio State University	Integral TQFTs from Quantum Doubles
10-26	Emily Landes	University of Texas	Identifying the Canonical Component for the Whitehead Link
10-28*	Amanda Hager	University of Iowa	TBA (host=LSU)
11-2	TBA	TBA	TBA
11-4*	Elena Pavelescu	Rice University	The Self-Linking Number in Annulus and Pants Open Book Decompositions (host=Rice)
11-9	TBA	TBA	TBA
11-11*	Ken Baker	University of Miami	Rational open books, cabling, and contact structures
11-16	Shea Vela-Vick	Columbia University	Torsion and Open Book Decompositions
11-18*	Pallavi Dani	LSU	TBA
11-23	Burak Ozbagci	Koc University and MSRI	TBA
11-30	Tim Perutz	University of Texas	TBA

*Virtual seminar with partipants from LSU, Rice, University of Miami and Univeristy of Iowa. It will be held in HB 355 from 3:40-4:40pm.