 |  |  |  | ||
 | Topology Seminar |  | |||
 |  |  |  | ||
| | | | ||
| Topology Seminar | | |||
| | | | ||
| Date | Name | Institution | Title (click for abstract if available) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-27 | Ken Baker | University of Miami | Non-looseness of non-loose knots |
| 2-10 | Joshua Greene | Boston College | Non-simple genus minimizers in lens spaces |
| 2-17 | Oscar Randal-Williams | Cambridge | Abelianisations of the mapping class groups of some highly-connected manifolds |
| 2-24 | Katie Mann | University of Chicago | Surface groups, representation spaces, and rigidity |
| 3-10 | Sebastian Hurtado | Berkeley | Rigidity of diffeomorphism groups |
| 3-17 | Laura Starkston | UT Austin | Cut-paste operations on symplectic manifolds |
| 4-7 | Peter Lambert-Cole | LSU | tba |
| 4-14 | Math 699 swaps times with Topology Seminar | ||
| 4-18* | Jennifer Hom | Columbia | tba |
| 4-21 | Sebastian Hensel | University of Chicago | tba |
| Date | Name | Institution | Title (click for abstract if available) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8-26 | Arunima Ray | Rice University | Casson towers and filtrations of the smooth knot concordance group |
| 9-2 | Labor Day - no classes | ||
| 9-9 | Arunima Ray | Rice University | Satellite operators with distinct iterates in smooth concordance |
| 9-16 | Allison Moore | Rice University | Pretzel knots admitting L-space surgeries |
| 9-23 | James Cooper | Rice University | Two mod-p Johnson filtrations |
| 10-14 | Midterm recess - no classes | ||
| 10-21 | Orsola Tommasi | Hannover | Stable cohomology of toroidal compactifications of the moduli space of abelian varieties |
| 10-28 | Tim Cochran | Rice University | Shake concordant knots that are not concordant |
| 11-4 | Taehee Kim | Konkuk University | Character varieties and detecting fiberedness of knots |
| 11-11 | David Cohen | Rice University | The isoperimetric inequality for the symplectic group |
| 12-2 | Jenny Wilson | University of Chicago | Stability phenomena for sequences of representations of the classical Weyl groups |