Date | Name | Institution | Title (click for abstract if available) |
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January 14 | Keiko Kawamuro | Rice University | On Transverse Knots and Branched Covers |
January 28 | Jaqueline Jensen | Sam Houston State University | Whitehead Doubles of Arborescent Knots |
February 4 | Tim Cochran | Rice University | Derivatives of Knots and second order signatures |
February 9-10 | Lousiana-Texas Topology Retreat | Rice University | |
February 18 | Andrew Elliot | Rice University | v- State Cycles in Khovanov Homology |
February 25 | Bochner Lectures - Davesh Maulik | ||
March 10 | Constance Leidy | Wesleyan University | Higher-order degrees and obstructions on the fundamental group of algebraic curve complements |
March 17 | Thomas Mark | University of Virginia | Knotted surfaces in 4-manifolds |
March 24 | Henry Wilton | University of Texas at Austin | Conjugacy separability for topologists. |
April 17 | Andras Stipsicz | Rényi Institute of Mathematics & Columbia University | TBA |
April 21 | Matt Hedden | MIT | TBA |
Date | Name | Institution | Title (click for abstract if available) |
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August 27 | Keiko Kawamuro | Rice University | Khovanov-Rozansky homology and the braid index of a knot |
September 3 | Labor day - no seminar | ||
September 10 | Tim Cochran | Rice University | Homology and p-series of groups |
September 17 | Jamie Jorgensen | Rice University | Surface Homeomorphisms That Do Not Extend to Any Handlebody and the Johnson Filtration |
September 24 | no seminar | ||
October 1 | no seminar | ||
October 8 | Maggy Tomova | Rice University | Bounds on the distance of a Heegaard splitting of a knot complement |
October 15 | Midterm Recess - no seminar | ||
October 17 (Wed) | Cornelia Van Cott | Indiana University | Knots and Links As Boundaries of Discs in 4-Space |
October 22 | Jason DeBlois | UIC and MSRI | A virtual fibering of the doubled tetrus |
October 29 | Porter Lectures | ||
November 5 | Greg Friedman | Texas Christian University (TCU) | Intersection Homology and Poincare Duality on Homotopically Stratified Spaces |
November 12 | Yi Ni | AIM/Columbia University | Heegaard Floer homology and fibred three-manifolds |
November 15 (Thur) | Dylan Thurston (Colloquium) | Columbia University | Combinatorial link Floer homology |
November 16 (Fri) | Dylan Thurston | Columbia University | Transverse Knot Invariants from Combinatorial Link Floer Homology |
November 19 | Henry Segerman | University of Texas | Ideal triangulations and components of the character variety |
November 26 | |||
December 3 | Special Lecture by Natasa Sesum -- no seminar | ||
December 6 (Thur) | Kent Orr (Colloquium) | Indiana University |