Click on the title of a talk for the abstract (if available).
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| August 28 | Keiko Kawamuro (Rice) | The Algebraic Crossing Number and Braid Index of Knots and Links |
| September 4 | NO MEETING | LABOR DAY HOLIDAY |
| September 11 | Barry Simon (Cal Tech) | Porter Lecture |
| September 18 | Barry Simon (Cal Tech) | Porter Lecture |
| September 25 | No meeting | |
| October 2 | Keiko Kawamuro (Rice) | Non-sharpness of the Morton-Franks-Williams inequality |
| October 9 | Lenny Ng (Duke University) | Knot theory and contact geometry I |
| October 16 | NO MEETING | FALL RECESS |
| January 22 | Eric Chesebro (Rice) | Trace fields and commensurability of link complements |
| January 29 | Maggy Tomova (Rice) | Comparing Bridge Surfaces |
| February 5 | Maggy Tomova (Rice) | continuation |
| February 12 | ||
| February 15 | Eaman Eftekhary (Harvard) HB227 | Heegaard Floer homology and essential tori |
| February 19 | ||
| February 26 | Stephan Tillmann (UQAM) | Volume of Representations |
| March 1 | John Etnyre (Georgia Tech) HB 227 | Open books decompositions and contact geometry |
| March 2 | John Etnyre (Georgia Tech) HB 453 | The space of plane fields on a 3-manifold |
| March 5 | No Seminar | Spring Recess |
| March 12 | No Seminar | Porter Lectures |
| March 19 | No Seminar | Porter Lectures |
| March 26 | Jamie Jorgenson | TBA |
| March 27 | Benson Farb (Wolf Lecture) (U. Chicago) | Parallels between moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces and locally symmetric spaces |
| April 2 | Robert Lipshitz (Columbia University) | Recent progress in computing Heegaard-Floer Homology |
| April 9 | Jake Rasmussen (Princeton) | Hecke algebras and HOMFLY homology of torus knots |
| April 12 | Cameron Gordon (U. Texas Austin) HB 227 | The Unknotting Number of a Knot |
| April 13 | Olga Plamanevskaya (SUNY Stony Brook) HB 227 | A combinatorial description of the Heegaard Floer contact invariant |
| April 16 | Jessica Purcell (U. Texas Austin) | TBA |
| April 23 | ||
| April 30 |
| January 12 |
Stefano Vidussi (U.C. Riverside)
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Colloquium
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| January 19 |
Vladimir Markovic (Warwick) |
Special Lecture |
| January 23 |
Andrew Elliot (Rice) |
Heegaard Splittings and Morse Theory |
| February 2 |
Scott Baldridge (LSU) |
Symplectic
4-Manifolds with prescribed fundamental groups |
| February 13 |
Tim Cochran |
Osvath-Szabo working seminar |
| February 20 |
Vorobetz |
Free Self-Similar Groups |
| February 27 |
Oliver Dasbach (LSU) |
The colored Jones polynomial vs. the hyperbolic
volume |
| March 2 |
Cipran Manolescu (Columbia) |
Colloquium: Knot Homology Theories from Symplectic Geometry |
| March 6 |
Shelly Harvey (Rice) |
Homology and Derived Series of Groups II: Dwyer's Theorem |
| March 7 |
Lee Rudolph (Clark) |
"Circle-valued Morse maps on knot and link complements" |
| March 13 |
NO MEETING |
SPRING BREAK |
| March 20 |
Tim Cochran Rice) |
Generalizations of Gropes and Series of Groups |
| March 27 |
Eric Chesebro (U. Texas Austin) |
Undetected boundary slopes |
| April 3 |
Tim Cochran and Shelly Harvey |
Homological Stability of Series of Groups |
| April 10 |
Andrew Elliot (Rice) |
An Introduction to Khovanov Homology: I |
| April 24 |
Genevieve Walsh (U. Texas Austin) |
Surfaces in finite covers and the group determinant
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| May 2 |
Jer-Chin Luke Chuang (Rice) |
Combinatorial Analogues to Transgression Forms Arising from the Chern-Weil Theory of Characteristic Classes |
| June 12 |
Elisenda Grigsby (Columbia) |
Knot Floer Homology and Covers
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