Fall 2014
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 8-27 | None | Organizational meeting |
| 9-3 | David Cohen | The word problem for finitely presented groups is undecidable. |
| 9-10 | Ina Petkova | Combinatorial tangle Floer homology |
| 9-17 | Neil Fullarton | Computing distances in the curve complex |
| 9-24 | Diego Vela | Introduction to cobordisms |
| 10-1 | Corey Bregman | The group theorist's curve complex |
| 10-8 | David Krcatovich | Khovanov homology and the Lee spectral sequence |
| 10-15 | Miriam Kuzbary | Morse homology |
| 10-22 | Jung Hwan Park | Introduction to Casson-Gordon invariants |
| 10-29 | Sarah Seger | Handle decompositions and surgery |
| 11-5 | Anthony Bosman | A prime decomposition for the string link monoid |
| 11-12 | None | Topology Seminar meets this day |
| 11-19 | Kenan Ince | The big Dehn surgery graph |
| 11-24* | Katherine Vance | A simplification of combinatorial link Floer homology |
| 11-26 | None | Thanksgiving Break |
| 12-3 | Allison Moore | Manolescu's unoriented skein triple |
*Is on a Monday
Current Participants (listed in alphabetic order):
Faculty:
- Tim Cochran
Shelly Harvey
Andy Putman
Postdocs:
- Neil Fullarton
David Krcatovich
Allison Moore
Ina Petkova
Graduate Students:
- Anthony Bosman
Corey Bregman
David Cohen
Kenan Ince
Miriam Kuzbary
Jung Hwan Park
Sarah Seger
Katherine Vance
Diego Vela
