RTG: Math 699 | ||
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Meeting time and place: Fridays from 3:30pm-5pm in Herman Brown 427 Instructors: Tim Cochran and Shelly Harvey | ||
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Faculty:
Shelly Harvey Andy Putman Postdocs:
Allison Moore Ina Petkova
Corey Bregman David Cohen James Cooper Kenan Ince Miriam Kuzbary Jung Hwan Park Arunima Ray Katherine Vance Diego Vela |
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| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| 1-24 | Ice Storm - no seminar | |
| 1-31 | Diego Vela | The Adjunction Inequality |
| 2-7 | Miriam Kuzbary | An Introduction to Khovanov Homology |
| 2-14 | Aru Ray | An introduction to the concordance invariant epsilon from Knot Floer homology. |
| 2-21 | Katherine Poulsen | "Grid diagrams, braids, and contact geometry" by L. Ng and D. Thurston |
| 2-28 | David Cohen | Lie algebra cohomology |
| 3-7 | Spring Break - no seminar | |
| 3-14 | Corey Bregman | Baumslag-Solitar Group Theory and Baumslag-Solitar Geometry |
| 3-21 | James Cooper | Casson's invariant for homology 3-spheres |
| 3-28 | Jung Hwan Park | |
| 4-4 | Spring Recess - no seminar | |
| 4-11 | Ina Petkova | |
| 4-14* | Anthony Bosman | |
| 4-25 | Kenan Ince | |
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| 9-13 | David Cohen | The cohomology of Thompson's group F |
| 9-20 | Diego Vela | Alexander Polynomials of Equivariant Slice and Equivariant Ribbokn knots in S^3 |
| 9-27 | Aru Ray | Akbulut's corks and exotic smooth structures on 4-manifolds |
| 10-4 | Eamonn Tweedy | Quasi-alternating links and knot homologies |
| 10-11 | Miriam Kuzbary | Branched covers and fibered links |
| 10-18 | Allison Moore | Topology and Data Analysis |
| 10-25 | Corey Bregman | Flat vector bundles and the Milnor-Wood inequality |
| 11-1 | Katherine Vance | Cobordism, homotopy and homology of graphs in R3 |
| 11-8 | James Cooper | "Stable commutator length on mapping class groups" by Bestvina, Bromberg, and Fujiwara |
| 11-15 | Jung Hwan Park | "On simply-connected 4-manifolds" by C.T.C. Wall |
| 11-22 | Anthony Bosman | Rochlin's Invariant for spin 3-manifolds |
| 11-29 | No seminar - Thanksgiving | |