Spring 2018
Meeting time and place: Fridays from 4pm-5pm in Herman Brown 427
Instructor: Shelly Harvey
Date | Speaker | Topic |
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1-12 | No seminar (Joint Math Meetings) | |
1-19 | Sarah Seger | Algebraic Concordance Group |
1-26 | Sarah Seger | Algebraic Concordance Group |
2-2 | Topology seminar (Steve Boyer) | |
2-9 | No classes (spring recess) | |
2-16 | No seminar - Alan Reid talks at UH | |
2-23 | Shawn Williams | Morse Homology |
3-2 | Miriam Kuzbary | Integral Homology Spheres and the Johnson Filtration |
3-16 | No classes (spring break) | |
3-23 | Will Stagner | The isomorphism problem for Coxeter groups, part I |
3-30 | Will Stagner | The isomorphism problem for Coxeter groups, part II |
4-13 | Michelle Chu | Length spectrum of surface groups |
4-29 | Nick Rouse | TBA |
Fall 2017
Date | Speaker | Topic |
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8-25 | Seminar canceled (Hurricane Harvey) | |
9-1 | Seminar canceled (Hurricane Harvey) | |
9-8 | Organizational seminar | |
9-15 | Sarah Seger | Blanchfield forms and Seifert form from C-complexes |
9-22 | Sarah Seger | Blanchfield forms and Seifert form from C-complexes |
9-29 | Will Stagner | Varieties of Group Representations and Splittings of 3-manifolds |
10-6 | Will Stagner | Varieties of Group Representations and Splittings of 3-manifolds |
10-13 | Shawn Williams | Whitehead Torsion |
10-20 | Shawn Williams | Whitehead Torsion |
10-27 | Miriam Kuzbary | Twisted Torsion and Link Concordance |
11-3 | Topology seminar meets at this time | |
11-10 | Neil Fullarton | Outer space via sphere complexes (and Hatcher) |
11-17 | TGTC - no seminar | |
11-24 | Thanksgiving - no seminar |
Current Participants (listed in alphabetic order):
Faculty:
- Shelly Harvey
John Hempel
Alan Reid
Postdoc:
- Neil Fullarton
Graduate Students:
- Michelle Chu (visiting from UT Austin)
Miriam Kuzbary
Nick Rouse
Sarah Seger
Will Stagner
Shawn Williams