Meeting time and place: Fridays from 3pm-4pm in Herman Brown 423
Instructor: Shelly Harvey
Current Participants (listed in alphabetic order):
Faculty:
- Shelly Harvey
Alan Reid
Postdocs:
- Allison Miller
Morgan Weiler
Will Worden
Graduate Students:
- Tam Cheetham-West
Leo Digiosia
Alex Manchester
Sara Edelman-Munoz
Nick Rouse
Connor Sell
Will Stagner
Shawn Williams
Fall 2019
Date | Speaker | Topic |
---|---|---|
8-30 | Organizational meeting | |
9-6 | Allison Miller | Twisted invariants of slice knots |
9-13 | Connor Sell | The Davis manifold |
9-20 | No seminar due to weather | |
9-27 | Leo Digiosia | Introduction to Symplectic Capacities |
10-4 | Morgan Weiler | Applications of ECH capacities |
10-11 | Shawn Williams | Twisted Alexander Polynomials of Slice Knots |
10-18 | Nick Rouse | Character Varieties: Basics and Examples |
10-25 | Tam Cheetham-West | Profinite groups and profinite completion |
11-1 | Will Stagner | Introduction to cube complexes and the proof of Thurston’s virtual fibering conjecture |
11-8 | Will Worden | Sutured manifold decompositions |
11-15 | Sara Edelman-Munoz | Finite index subgroups of SLn(Z) cannot act on the real line |
11-22 | Matthew Stover (Topology seminar) | Finiteness of geodesic submanifolds of hyperbolic manifolds/td> |
11-29 | Thanksgiving holiday |
Spring 2020
Date | Speaker | Topic |
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1-17 | Organizational meeting | |
1-24 | No seminar | |
2-7 | Allison Miller | Morse theory |
2-7 | Connor Sell | A compact hyperbolic 4-manifold with odd intersection form |
2-14 | Spring recess | |
2-21 | Alex Manchester | Faithfulness of the Burau representation |
2-28 | no seminar | |
3-6 | Tam Cheetham-West | TBA |
3-13 | Shawn Williams | TBA |
3-20 | Spring Break | |
3-27 | Sara Edelman-Munoz | TBA |
4-3 | Leo Digiosia | TBA |
4-10 | Nick Rouse | TBA |
4-17 | Will Worden | TBA |
3-6 | Will Stagner | TBA |