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| Date | Name | Institution | Title (click for abstract if available) |
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| 1-8** | Adam Levine | Brandeis University | Bordered Floer homology and splicing knot complements |
| 2-4 | Jae Choon Cha | Pohang University of Science of Technology, Korea | Universal bounds of Cheeger-Gromov invariants: a topological viewpoint |
| 2-18 | Shea Vela-Vick | LSU | Transverse knots, infinite cyclic covers and Heegaard Floer homology |
| 3-4 | Ilya Grigoriev | Stanford | Relations among characteristic classes of manifold bundles |
| 3-18 | Dave Witte-Morris | Lethbridge | SL(n, Q) has no volume-preserving actions on (n − 1)-dimensional compact manifolds |
| 4-15 | Grigori Avramidi | University of Chicago | Homology generated by flat tori in some locally symmetric spaces |
| 4-22 | Eric Chesebro | University of Montana | Closed essential surfaces and the character variety |
| 4-22 | Christopher Davis | Ohio State University and U. Wisconsin at Eau Claire | Satellite operations as a group action |
| Date | Name | Institution | Title (click for abstract if available) |
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| 8-20 | Arunima Ray | Rice University | Slice knots which bound Klein bottles |
| 8-27 | Arunima Ray | Rice University | Injectivity of satellite operators in knot concordance |
| 9-3 | No seminar - Labor Day | ||
| 9-10 | David Cohen | Rice University | Borel stability for congruence subgroups |
| 9-17 | Taylor McNeill | Rice University | Infinite generation of the higher order Magnus subgroups |
| 9-19* | Shea Vela-Vick | LSU | The equivalence of transverse link invariants in knot Floer homology |
| 9-24 | Taylor Martin | Rice University | Lower order solvability of links and Milnor's invariants |
| 10-1 | Tim Cochran | Rice University | Counterexamples to Kauffman's Conjecture on Slice Knots |
| 10-3* | Ken Baker | University of Miami | Annular twists and Bridge numbers of knots |
| 10-8 | Andy Putnam | Rice University | One the Burau representation at t=-1 |
| 10-10* | Moshe Cohen | Bar-Ilan University, Israel | Kauffman's clock lattice as a graph of perfect matchings: a formula for its height |
| 11-5 | Tye Lidman | UT Austin | Left-orderability of groups and 3-manifold topology |
| 11-12 | Kate Poirier | Berkeley | Compactifying String Topology |
| 11-19 | Ina Petkova | Rice University | Bordered Heegaard Floer homology, knots, and decategorification |
| 11-26 | Alex Zupan | UT Austin | Generalized bridge numbers of iterated torus knots |