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| Date | Name | Institution | Title (click for abstract if available) |
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| 1-10 | Kate Kearney | Indiana University | Obstructions to a knot bounding a Mobius band in B4 |
| 1-17 | MLK - no classes | ||
| 1-19* | Moshe Cohen | Bar-Ilan University | A dimer model for the Jones polynomial of pretzel knots |
| 1-24 | Daniel Tanner | Rice University | Obstructions to being homology cobordant to a Seifert-fibered 3-manifold |
| 1-26* | Elena Pavelescu | Rice University | On Legendrian Graphs |
| 1-31 | Colloquium - no seminar this week | ||
| 2-7 | Henry Wilton | Caltech | On the difficulty of presenting groups |
| 2-9* | Adam Lowrance | University of Iowa | Khovanov homology, ribbon graphs and quasi-trees |
| 2-16* | Cody Armond | LSU | Rogers-Ramanujan type equalities and the head and tail of the colored Jones polynomial |
| 2-21 | Jen Hom | University of Pennsylvania | Concordance and the knot Floer complex |
| 2-28 | Spring Break | ||
| 3-14 | Constance Leidy | Wesleyan University | Operads in Knot Theory |
| 3-23* | Chris Cornwell | Michigan State University | Legendrian and transverse knots in lens spaces with a universally tight contact structure |
| 3-28 | Andy Putman | Rice University | Finite subgroups of the mapping class group |
| 4-4 | Joshua Greene | Columbia University | Lattices, graphs, and Conway mutation |
| 4-18 | Allison Gilmore | Columbia University | TBA |
| 4-25 | Ben McReynolds | University of Chicago | TBA |
| 5-4* | Aaron Abrams | Emory University | TBA |
| Date | Name | Institution | Title (click for abstract if available) |
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| 8-23 | Bridget Franklin | Rice University | Infection and the n-solvable filtration |
| 8-30 | Danielle O'Donnol | Rice University | Knotting and Linking in the Petersen family |
| 9-6 | Labor Day - no seminar | ||
| 9-13 | Tim Cochran | Rice University | Filtrations of Smooth concordance classes of topologically slice knots |
| 9-20 | Chris Davis | Rice University | Localized metabelian rho invariants as obstructions to torsion in the knot concordance group |
| 9-27 | Tim Cochran | Rice University | Concordance and homology cobordism in the rational world (joint work with P. Horn and B. Franklin) |
| 10-4 | Carolyn Otto | Rice University | The (n)-Solvable Filtration of the Link Concordance Group and Milnor's Invariants |
| 10-11 | Midterm Recess - no seminar | ||
| 10-15 (Fri) | Shea Vela-Vick | Columbia University | Recovering HFK- from sutured Floer homology and contact invariants for open 3-manifolds |
| 10-18 | Andy Putman | Rice University | Equivariant homological stability for congruence subgroups |
| 10-25 | Matt Hedden | Michigan State University | Instantons, concordance, and Whitehead doubling |
| 11-2** | Spencer Dowdall | University of Chicago | Dilatation vs self-intersection number for point-pushing pseudo-Anosovs |
| 11-8 | Andy Putman | Rice University | Abelian quotients of subgroups of the mapping class group and higher Pyrm representations. |
| 11-15 | Richard Kent | University of Wisconsin at Madison | Mapping class groups at different levels |
| 11-17* | Roland van der Veen | UC Berkeley | Hyperbolic polyhedra and the Jones polynomial |
| 11-22 | Kevin Wortman | University of Utah | Isoperimetric functions of arithmetic groups |
| 11-29 | Asaf Hadari | University of Chicago | Character varieties and Algebraic entropy |