Topology Seminar 2011-2012


	Topology Seminar 2011-2012

Information

Seminar meets: Mondays from 4pm-5pm in HB 427
Tea in the math commons room before the talk (3:30-4pm)
Contacts: Tim Cochran Shelly Harvey John Hempel Andy Putman

Note:
* means the seminar is a virtual seminar with participants from LSU, Rice, University of Miami and University of Iowa. It will be held in HB 355 from 3:40-4:40pm.
** means the seminar will be held on Tuesday from 1-2pm in HB 427.

Fall 2011

Date	Name	Institution	Title (click for abstract if available)
8-24*	Charlie Frohman	University of Iowa	Projective Representations of the Mapping Class group of a surface with boundary coming from TQFT
8-29	Eamonn Tweedy	Rice University	Some knot invariants arising from the Heegaard Floer chain complex of a branched double cover
9-5	Labor Day - no seminar
9-12	Christopher Davis	Rice University	Non-triviality of knots arising from iterated infection without the use of the Tristram-Levine signature
9-13**	Alexander Zupan	University of Iowa	A new distance for bridge splittings of knots
9-14*	Greg Muller	Louisiana State University	Skein Algebras of Marked Surfaces
9-19	Candice Price	University of Iowa	Oriented skein relation for knot Floer homology and a biological application
9-28*	Shin Sato	Kobe University	Quandle cocycle invariants of roll-spun knots
10-5*	Trent Schirmer	University of Iowa	New examples of tunnel number subadditivity
10-17	Taylor McNeill	Rice University	A new filtration of the Magnus kernel of the Torelli group.
10-19*	Eamonn Tweedy	Rice University	A filtration on the Heegaard floer chain complex of a double branched cover
10-24	Jesse Johnson	Oklahoma State University	Common stabilizations of Heegaard splittings
10-25**	Justin Malestein	Temple University	Generic rigidity of periodic frameworks and flat tori
10-26*	Effie Kalfagianni	Michigan State University	Polyhedral decompositions, essential surfaces and colored Jones polynomials
10-31	Taylor Martin	Rice University	Classification of Algebraically split links up to 0-solve equivalence
11-2*	Adam Lowrance	University of Iowa	A categorification of the Tutte polynomial
11-16*	Heather Russell	USC	Springer varieties and spider webs

Spring 2012

Date	Name	Institution	Title (click for abstract if available)
1-25*	Yeonhee Jang	Hirshima University	Bridge Presentations of Links
2-1*	Cody Armond	LSU	The colored Jones polynomial and adequate links
2-6	Harold Sultan	Columbia University	Asymptotic Geometry of Teichmuller Space and Divergence
2-13	John Etnyre	Georgia Tech	Surgery and tight contact structures
2-15*	Dan Rutherford	University of Arkansas	A combinatorial Legendrian knot DGA from generating families
2-20	Stefan Friedl	University of Cologne	The Thurston norm, fibered manifolds and twisted Alexander polynomials
2-27	Matthew Kahle	Ohio State University	Topology of random flag complexes
3-6**	Cagri Karakurt	UT Austin	Ozsvath-Szabo Invariants of Corks
3-12	Mark Powell	Indiana University	Links not concordant to the Hopf link
3-14*	John Etnyre	Georgia Tech	Open books decompositions and the geometry of contact structures
3-21*	Matt Clay	Allegheny College	The geometry of right-angled Artin subgroups of mapping class groups
4-2	Sucharit Sarkar	Clay Research Fellow - Columbia University	A Khovanov homotopy type
4-4*	Dennis Roseman	University of Iowa	Small Lattice Surfaces in Four Dimensions
4-16	Tam Nguyen Phan	University of Chicago	Finite volume, negatively curves manifolds

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    2010-2011
    2009-2010
    2008-2009
    2007-2008
    2006-2007