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 Seminars - Fall '11
 
Low-Dimensional Topology Seminar - Meeting time: Wednesdays, 4:10 - 5:00, A304 Wells Hall
Date Details
Oct 10

Jonathan Bloom, MIT,  'Morse/Floer homology with boundary' (Monday, 12:40 - 1:30, A304 Wells Hall)
Nov 2 John Baldwin, Boston College, 'On the equivalence of transverse link invariants in knot Floer homology'
Nov 3 John Baldwin, Boston College, 'A spanning tree model for knot Floer homology' SPECIAL RTG LECTURE (Thursday, 4:10 - 5:00, A304 Wells Hall)
Nov 16 Mark Powell, Indiana U, 'Links not concordant to the Hopf link'
Nov 29 Helen Wong, Carleton College, 'An introduction to the Kauffman skein algebra' SPECIAL RTG LECTURE
Nov 30 Helen Wong, Carleton College, 'Distinguishing representations of the Kauffman skein algebra'
Dec 6 Andy Putman, Rice U, 'Small generating sets for the Torelli group' SPECIAL RTG LECTURE
Dec 7 Andy Putman, Rice U, 'Representation stability and congruence subgroups'
   
 

Geometric Analysis Seminar - Meeting time: Tuesdays, 4:10 - 5:00, A304 Wells Hall
Date Details
Sep 9

Lei Ni, UC San Diego, 'Estimates on the modulus of expansion for vector fields solving nonlinear equations' (Friday, 3:00 -3:50, A304 Wells Hall)
Sep 13 Joerg Enders, U Potsdam, 'Understanding the deformation of planar curves in the direction of their curvature' SPECIAL RTG LECTURE
Sep 14 Joerg Enders, U Potsdam, 'On type I Ricci flow singularities' (Wednesday, 4:10 - 5:00, A304 Wells Hall)
Sep 27 Ke Zhu, U. Minnesota, 'Thin instantons in G2-manifolds and Seiberg-Witten invariants' 
Oct 25 Andrew Zimmer, U. Michigan, 'Asymptotically harmonic manifolds with nonpositive curvature'
Nov 9 Deane Yang, Brooklyn Polytechnic, 'Convex geometry, an introduction'   SPECIAL RTG LECTURE (Wednesday, 4:10 - 5:00, A304 Wells Hall)
Nov 10 Deane Yang, Brooklyn Polytechnic, 'Convex geometry and Sobolev inequalities'  (Thursday, 3:00 - 4:00, A304 Wells Hall)
Nov 11 Deane Yang, Brooklyn Polytechnic, 'Convex geometry, Sobolev inequalities and information theory'  (Friday, 3:00 - 4:00, A304 Wells Hall)
Nov 22 Yann Bernard, U. Freiburg, 'Energy quantization for the Willmore functional'
   
 

Graduate Student Seminar - Meeting time: Tuesdays, 3:00 - 4:00, A517 Wells Hall
Date Details
Sep 6 Faramarz Vafaee, 'Sutured Floer homology and Seifert surfaces'
Sep 13 Cheryl Balm, 'Crossing changes in genus one knots'
Sep 20 Dan Smith, 'Pluriclosed surfaces'
Sep 27 Jeff Chapin, 'Chern classes'
Oct 4 Wei Fan, 'Spin structures'
Oct 11 Kyungbae Park, 'Wall crossing formulae'
Oct 18 David Krcatovich, 'Computing 3-manifold invariants with bordered Floer homology'
Oct 25 Christine Lee, 'Construction of the knot concordance group and algebraic concordance'
Nov 1 Luke Williams, 'Handlebodies and the Andrews-Curtis conjecture'
Nov 8 Chris Hays, 'Contact structures and symplectic cobordisms'
Nov 15 Akos Nagy, 'Orientability of moduli spaces'
Nov 29 Manousos Maridakis, 'Seiberg-Witten invariants of symplectic 4-manifolds'
Dec 6 Aykut Arslan, 'Cusp, fishtail, and knot surgery'
   
 

Student Seminar - Math 868 - Meeting time:Tuesdays 9:10 - 10:00 A304 Wells Hall
Date Details
Sep 20 Qinbo Liu, 'The Grassmannian manifold'
Sep 27 Seonghak Kim, 'Sard's theorem and its corollaries'
Oct 4 Xu Zhang, 'Whitney's embedding theorem I'
Oct 11 Xu Zhang, 'Whitney's embedding theorem II'
Oct 18 Samuel Lin, 'Lie groups'
Oct 25 Qinbo Liu, 'Lie algebras'
Nov 1 Deborah Frank, 'Tensors and tensor fields'
Nov 8 TBA, 'The degree of a map'
Nov 15 Kevin Dugal, 'The index sum'
Nov 22 TBA, 'The Poincare-Hopf theorem'
Nov 29 TBA, 'Fundamental theorem on flows'
Dec 6 Shuman Lin, 'Symplectic manifolds'
   
 
Topology Seminar - Meeting time: Mondays, 4:10 - 5:00, A304 Wells Hall
Date Details
Sep 19

Luke Williams, 'On the generalized Property R and Slice-Ribbon Conjectures'
Sep 26 Matt Hedden, 'Contact structures associated to 'rational' open books and their invariants'
Oct 3 Matt Hedden, 'Contact structures associated to 'rational' open books and their invariants (2)'
Oct 10 Jonathan Bloom, MIT,  'A Künneth formula in monopole Floer homology'
Nov 21 Raimundo dos Santos, U. Sao Paulo, 'Existence of real Milnor fibrations and higher open book structures'
   
 
Geometry/Topology Colloquium Speakers - Meeting time: Thursdays, 4:10 - 5:00, A304 Wells Hall
Date Details
Sep 8 Lei Ni, UC San Diego, 'Gap theorems on Kaehler manifolds'
Oct 27 Cagatay Kutluhan, Harvard U, 'Floer homologies in dimension 3'
   
   
 

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