VIGRE: Math 699 | ||
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Meeting time and place: Tuesdays from 1-2:15pm in Herman Brown 427 Instructors: Tim Cochran and Shelly Harvey | ||
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Faculty:
Shelly Harvey John Hempel Andy Putman Postdocs:
Eamonn Tweedy
Taylor (Coon) Martin James Cooper Chris Davis Bridget Franklin Taylor McNeill Jung Hwan Park Katherine Poulsen Arunima Ray Diego Vela |
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| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| 1-17 | Tim Cochran | Massey Products |
| 1-24 | Andy Putman | The Genus 2 Torelli Group |
| 1-31 | Prudence Heck | Khovanov Homology and Braids |
| 2-7 | Eamonn Tweedy | Sutured manifolds |
| 2-14 | David Cohen | On the LyusternikâSchnirelmann category |
| 2-21 | Taylor Martin | Branched covers of surfaces in 4-manifolds by Rob Kirby and Selman Akbulut |
| 3-6 | James Cooper | The lower central series and pseudo-Anosov dilatations by Benson Farb, Chris Leininger, and Dan Margalit |
| 3-13 | Chris Davis | Presenting the Alexander module of a link using generalized Seifert surfaces |
| 3-20 | Taylor McNeill | The topological IHX relation, pure braids, and the Torelli group by Gervais and Habegger |
| 3-27 | Katherine Poulsen | The Arf invariant and the Jones polynomial |
| 4-3 | Arunima Ray | Smooth concordance of topologically slice knots by Robert Gompf |
| 4-10 | Diego Vela | Diet De Rham Cohomology |
| 4-17 | Bridget Franklin | Concordance groups of links by Andrew Donald and Brendan Owens |
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| 8-30 | Tim Cochran | Towards a geometric characterization of topologically slice knots |
| 9-6 | Bridget Franklin | Concordance Properties of Parallel Links by Danny Ruberman and Saso Strle |
| 9-13 | Topology seminar - outside speaker | |
| 9-20 | Aru Ray | On the signature of even 4-manifolds |
| 9-27 | Chris Davis | Cobordism Groups of Homology cylinders |
| 10-4 | Prudence Heck | Localization Functors |
| 10-11 | No seminar - fall break | |
| 10-18 | Katherine Poulsen | Vassiliev/Finite type invariants |
| 10-25 | Topology seminar - outside speaker | |
| 11-1 | James Cooper | The Theory of Motion Groups by Deborah L. Goldsmith |
| 11-8 | Diego Vela | Obstructions to a links being concordant to a Hopf link by Stefan Friedl and Mark Powell |
| 11-15 | Taylor McNeill | Geometric Presentations for the Pure Braid Group by Dan Margalit and Jon McCammond |
| 11-22 | Eamonn Tweedy | Orderable 3-manifold groups by Boyer, Rolfsen, and Wiest |
| 11-29 | David Cohen | Symplectic Manifolds |
| 12-6 | Taylor Coon Martin | The Casson Invariant from Saveliev's Lectures on the Topology of 3-Manifolds |