Spring 2018

Meeting time and place: Fridays from 4pm-5pm in Herman Brown 427
Instructor: Shelly Harvey

DateSpeakerTopic
1-12No seminar (Joint Math Meetings)
1-19Sarah SegerAlgebraic Concordance Group
1-26Sarah SegerAlgebraic Concordance Group
2-2Topology seminar (Steve Boyer)
2-9No classes (spring recess)
2-16No seminar - Alan Reid talks at UH
2-23Shawn WilliamsMorse Homology
3-2Miriam KuzbaryIntegral Homology Spheres and the Johnson Filtration
3-16No classes (spring break)
3-23Will StagnerThe isomorphism problem for Coxeter groups, part I
3-30Will StagnerThe isomorphism problem for Coxeter groups, part II
4-13Michelle ChuLength spectrum of surface groups
4-29Nick RouseTBA

Fall 2017

DateSpeakerTopic
8-25Seminar canceled (Hurricane Harvey)
9-1Seminar canceled (Hurricane Harvey)
9-8Organizational seminar
9-15Sarah SegerBlanchfield forms and Seifert form from C-complexes
9-22Sarah SegerBlanchfield forms and Seifert form from C-complexes
9-29Will StagnerVarieties of Group Representations and Splittings of 3-manifolds
10-6Will StagnerVarieties of Group Representations and Splittings of 3-manifolds
10-13Shawn WilliamsWhitehead Torsion
10-20Shawn WilliamsWhitehead Torsion
10-27Miriam KuzbaryTwisted Torsion and Link Concordance
11-3Topology seminar meets at this time
11-10Neil FullartonOuter space via sphere complexes (and Hatcher)
11-17TGTC - no seminar
11-24Thanksgiving - no seminar

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