supported by the Edgar J. Stulken Fund
| Stulken Topology Seminar - Fall 2009 and Spring 2010 supported by the Edgar J. Stulken Fund |
| Date | Name | Institution | Title (click for abstract if available) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |