Stulken Topology Seminar - Fall 2009 and Spring 2010 supported by the Edgar J. Stulken Fund |
Date | Name | Institution | Title (click for abstract if available) |
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1-11 | Prudence Heck | Rice University | Obstructing knot concordance in non-simply connected manifolds |
2-3* | Pallavi Dani | LSU | Higher divergence functions for right-angled Artin groups (host=LSU) |
2-8 | Khalid Bou-Rabee | University of Chicago | An introduction to geometric group theory culture |
2-22** | Peter Horn | Columbia University | A Survey of Notions of Higher-Order Genus for Knots |
3-29 | Robert Lipshitz | Columbia University and MSRI | Computing Heegaard Floer invariants by cutting |
3-31* | Loretta Bartolini | Oklahoma State University | One-sided Heegaard splittings of 3-manifolds (host=Iowa) |
4-5 | Tim Cochran | Rice University | Spin Cobordism Groups and applications |
Date | Name | Institution | Title (click for abstract if available) |
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8-31 | John Hempel | Rice University | Reflections on distant curves |
9-7 | labor day - no classes | ||
9-9* | Andrew Elliott | Rice University | Graphical methods establishing nontriviality of state cycle Khovanov homology classes |
9-14 | Prudence Heck | Rice University | Free concordance of null-homologous knots in acyclic manifolds |
9-21 | Tim Cochran | Rice University | An expository lecture on the classification of differentiable manifolds and the s-cobordism theorem |
9-23* | Marian Moore | UC Davis | High distance knots in any 3-manifold (host=Iowa) |
9-28 | Tim Cochran | Rice University | A Gentle introduction to Massey Products |
10-12 | midterm recess - no classes | ||
10-14* | Leah Childers | LSU | On the Automorphism Group of the Summetric Torelli Group (host=LSU) |
10-19 | Thomas Kerler | Ohio State University | Integral TQFTs from Quantum Doubles |
10-26 | Emily Landes | University of Texas | Identifying the Canonical Component for the Whitehead Link |
10-28* | Amanda Hager | University of Iowa | Sheaf cohomology and freeness of arrangement bundles (host=LSU) |
11-4* | Elena Pavelescu | Rice University | The Self-Linking Number in Annulus and Pants Open Book Decompositions (host=Rice) |
11-11* | Ken Baker | University of Miami | Rational open books, cabling, and contact structures |
11-16 | Shea Vela-Vick | Columbia University | Torsion and Open Book Decompositions |
11-18* | Pallavi Dani | LSU | postponed |
11-23 | Burak Ozbagci | Koc University and MSRI | Milnor fillable contact structures |
11-30 | Tim Perutz | University of Texas | Curves on surfaces and fixed point Floer homology |