| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |