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| Date | Name | Institution | Title (click for abstract if available) |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 14 | Keiko Kawamuro | Rice University | On Transverse Knots and Branched Covers |
| January 28 | Jaqueline Jensen | Sam Houston State University | Whitehead Doubles of Arborescent Knots |
| February 4 | Tim Cochran | Rice University | Derivatives of Knots and second order signatures |
| February 9-10 | Lousiana-Texas Topology Retreat | Rice University | |
| February 18 | Andrew Elliot | Rice University | v- State Cycles in Khovanov Homology |
| February 25 | Bochner Lectures - Davesh Maulik | ||
| March 10 | Constance Leidy | Wesleyan University | Higher-order degrees and obstructions on the fundamental group of algebraic curve complements |
| March 17 | Thomas Mark | University of Virginia | Knotted surfaces in 4-manifolds |
| March 24 | Henry Wilton | University of Texas at Austin | Conjugacy separability for topologists. |
| April 17 | Andras Stipsicz | Rényi Institute of Mathematics & Columbia University | TBA |
| April 21 | Matt Hedden | MIT | TBA |
| Date | Name | Institution | Title (click for abstract if available) |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 27 | Keiko Kawamuro | Rice University | Khovanov-Rozansky homology and the braid index of a knot |
| September 3 | Labor day - no seminar | ||
| September 10 | Tim Cochran | Rice University | Homology and p-series of groups |
| September 17 | Jamie Jorgensen | Rice University | Surface Homeomorphisms That Do Not Extend to Any Handlebody and the Johnson Filtration |
| September 24 | no seminar | ||
| October 1 | no seminar | ||
| October 8 | Maggy Tomova | Rice University | Bounds on the distance of a Heegaard splitting of a knot complement |
| October 15 | Midterm Recess - no seminar | ||
| October 17 (Wed) | Cornelia Van Cott | Indiana University | Knots and Links As Boundaries of Discs in 4-Space |
| October 22 | Jason DeBlois | UIC and MSRI | A virtual fibering of the doubled tetrus |
| October 29 | Porter Lectures | ||
| November 5 | Greg Friedman | Texas Christian University (TCU) | Intersection Homology and Poincare Duality on Homotopically Stratified Spaces |
| November 12 | Yi Ni | AIM/Columbia University | Heegaard Floer homology and fibred three-manifolds |
| November 15 (Thur) | Dylan Thurston (Colloquium) | Columbia University | Combinatorial link Floer homology |
| November 16 (Fri) | Dylan Thurston | Columbia University | Transverse Knot Invariants from Combinatorial Link Floer Homology |
| November 19 | Henry Segerman | University of Texas | Ideal triangulations and components of the character variety |
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| December 3 | Special Lecture by Natasa Sesum -- no seminar | ||
| December 6 (Thur) | Kent Orr (Colloquium) | Indiana University |
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