Date | Speaker | Topic |
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9/2/08 | organizational meeting | |
9/9/08 | Shelly Harvey | Concordance invariants from higher order covers by Stanislav Jubuka |
9/16/08 | Hurricane Ike | Effect of 100mph winds on the gulf coast |
9/23/08 | Peter Horn | Separating twists and the Magnus representation of the Torelli group by Thomas Church and Aaron Pixton |
9/30/08 | Keiko Kawamuro | Fibered transverse knots and the Bennequin Bound by John Etnyre and Jeremy van Horn-Morris |
10/7/08 | Elena Pavelescu | Contact Structures on 3-manifolds are deformations of foliations |
10/14/08 | no seminar - midterm recess | |
10/21/08 | Carolyn Otto | The concordance genus of a knot II by Charles Livingston |
10/28/08 | Eric Chesebro | Commensurability and the character variety by Darren Long and Alan Reid |
11/4/08 | Eric Chesebro | Commensurability and the character variety, part II |
11/11/08 | Andrew Elliot | The s-invariant and Lee's spectral sequence |
11/18/08 | Danielle O'Donnol | Primitive spatial graphs and graph minors by Makoto Ozawa and Yukihiro Tsutsumi |
11/25/08 | Bridget Franklin | Roots of Torsion Polynomials and Dominations by Michel Boileau, Steve Boyer and Shicheng Wang |
12/2/08 | Chris Davis | Approximating L2 invariants by their finite-dimensional analogues by Wolfgang Lueck |
Spring 2009 | ||
1/13/09 | Tim Cochran | Isotopy of Links by John Milnor |
1/20/09 | Danielle O'Donnol | Knotted Hamiltonian cycles in spatial embeddings of complete graphs by Blain, Bowlin, Foisy, Hendricks and LaCombe |
1/27/09 | Danielle O'Donnol | Knotted Hamiltonian cycles in spatial embeddings of complete graphs (con't) |
2/3/09 | organizational meeting | |
2/10/09 | Shelly Harvey | Capping off open books and the Ozsvath-Szabo contact invariant |
2/17/09 | Peter Horn | Group Homology |
2/24/09 | Peter Horn | Group Homology, part II |
3/3/09 | no seminar - spring break | |
3/10/09 | Andrew Elliot | On the spectral sequence from Khovanov homology to Heegaard Floer homology by John Baldwin |
3/17/09 | Eric Chesebro | Euclidean decompositions of non-compact hyperbolic manifolds by D. Epstein and R. Penner |
3/24/09 | Elena Pavelescu | |
3/31/09 | Taylor Coon | |
4/7/09 | Chris Davis | |
4/14/09 | Bridget Franklin | |
4/21/09 | Carolyn Otto |