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| Meeting
time: Wednesdays, 4:10 - 5:30, A304 Wells Hall
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| Sept. 7 |
Lawrence Roberts, 'A survey of knot-Floer
homology' |
| Sept. 14 |
Lawrence Roberts, 'Knot-Floer homology:
background and examples' |
| Sept. 21 |
Lawrence Roberts, 'Knot-Floer homology:
background and examples (continued)' |
| Sept. 28 |
Selahi Durusoy, 'Large n surgeries' |
| Oct. 5 |
Selahi Durusoy, 'Large n surgeries
(continued)' |
| Oct. 12 |
Ron Fintushel, 'Integer surgeries' |
| Oct. 19 |
Ron Fintushel, 'More on integer surgeries' |
| Oct. 26 |
Ron Fintushel, 'Integer surgeries (finis)' |
| Nov. 2 |
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| Nov. 9 |
Arda Bugra Ozer, 'Heegaard-Floer homology
and torsion' |
| Nov. 16 |
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| Nov. 30 |
Arda Bugra Ozer, 'Heegaard-Floer homology
and torsion (continued)' |
| Dec. 7 |
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| Meeting
time: Tuesdays, 4:10 - 5:30, A304 Wells Hall |
| Aug.30 |
Casim Abbas, 'A new approach
to the Weinstein conjecture in dimension three' |
| Sept. 6 |
Casim Abbas, 'The Weinstein
conjecture in the planar case: An outline of the cobordism
argument' |
| Sept.13 |
Zheng Huang, U. Michigan, 'Weil-Petersson
geometry near the infinity of Teichmuller space' |
| Sept.20 |
Spiro Karigiannis, 'Calibrated subbundles
in noncompact manifolds of special holonomy' |
| Sept.27 |
Tom Parker, 'A structure theorem for
the Gromov-Witten invariants of complex surfaces' |
| Oct. 4 |
Jianguo Cao, Notre Dame University,
'Positive harmonic functions on nonpositively curved open
manifolds' |
| Oct. 11 |
Tom Parker, 'A structure theorem for
the Gromov-Witten invariants of complex surfaces (continued)' |
| Oct. 18 |
Richard Hind, Notre Dame University,
'Lagrangian spheres and Dehn twists' |
| Oct. 28 |
William Minicozzi, Johns Hopkins University,
'Extinction time for Ricci flow'
Friday, 10:20- 11:10, A-304 Wells Hall.
Note the change of day and time. |
| Nov. 1 |
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| Nov. 8 |
Hugh Bray, Duke. University, 'Negative
point mass singularities in general relativity' |
| Nov.15 |
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| Nov.22 |
Marianty Ionel, U. Toledo, 'Special
Lagrangian submanifolds in the deformed conifold' |
| Dec. 1 |
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| Dec.6 |
Hsiao-Bing Cheng, Cornell University |
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| Meeting
times: Tuesdays, 2:30 - 3:30, A117 Wells Hall; Thursdays,
2:30 - 3:30,
A517 Wells Hall |
| Sept. 8 |
Cagri Karakurt, 'Convex decomposition of contact 3-manifolds |
| Sept.15 |
Cagri Karakurt, 'Convex decomposition
of contact 3-manifolds (continued)' |
| Sept.22 |
Adam Knapp, 'Morse-Bott theory' |
| Sept.29 |
Adam Knapp, 'Morse-Bott theory (continued)' |
| Oct. 6 |
Adam Knapp, 'Morse-Bott theory (part
3)' |
| Oct. 13 |
Inanc Baykur, 'Lefschetz(ish) fibrations' |
| Oct. 20 |
Inanc Baykur, 'Lefschetz(ish) fibrations (continued)' |
| Oct. 22 |
Cagri Karakurt, 'The Calabi-Yau conjecture' |
| Nov. 7 |
Hugh Bray, Duke U, 'Black
holes and the curvature of spacetime'
Special date and time:
Monday, 3:00 - 3:50, A304 Wells Hall
|
| Nov. 8 |
Saul Schleimer, Rutgers U, 'Algorithmic
topology'
Special time: 3:00 -
3:50, A304 Wells
Hall
|
| Nov.14 |
Jacob Rasmussen, Princeton U. Khovanov
homology and deformations
Special
date and time: Monday, 3:00 - 3:50, A304 Wells Hall
|
| Nov.29 |
Dylan Thurston, Columbia U, 'How
efficiently do 3-manifolds bound 4-manifolds?'
Special time: 3:00 - 3:50,
A304 Wells Hall |
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| Meeting
time: Wednesday, 4:10 - 5:00, A117 Wells Hall |
| Sept. 7 |
Organizational Meeting
|
| Sept.14 |
Dogan Bilge, 'The long line' |
| Sept.21 |
Steven Sy, 'The manifold of all lines
in R^3' |
| Sept.28 |
Victor Piercey, 'The Grassman manifold' |
| Oct. 5 |
Michael Dabkowski, 'A proof of Sard's
Theorem' |
| Oct.12 |
Nathan Sunukjian, 'Whitney's embedding
theorem'
Room change this week only:
A204A Wells Hall |
| Oct.19 |
Thomas Jaeger, 'Trivializations of
the tangent bundles of the 1-, 3-, and 7-spheres' |
| Oct.26 |
Dogan Bilge, 'The Brouwer degree' |
| Nov. 2 |
Kwangho Choi, 'The index sum of vector
fields' |
| Nov. 9 |
Andrew Cooper, 'The Poincare-Hopf Theorem' |
| Nov.16 |
Michael Dabkowski,'Transversality' |
| Nov.23 |
| Nov.30 |
Carlos Vega, 'Lie derivative and exterior
derivative of forms' |
|
| Meeting
time: Mondays, 4:10 - 5:30, A304 Wells Hall |
| Sept.12 |
Ron Fintushel, 'Small 4-manifolds' |
| Sept.19 |
Dave Futer, 'Links with no exceptional
surgeries' |
| Sept.26 |
Selman Akbulut, 'G2 and Spin(7) manifolds
- an introduction' |
| Oct. 3 |
Selman Akbulut, 'G2 and Spin(7) manifolds
- Calibrated submanifolds' |
| Oct. 10 |
Selman Akbulut, 'G2 and Spin(7) manifolds
- Deforming calibrated submanifolds' |
| Oct. 17 |
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| Oct. 24 |
Dick Canary, U. Michigan, 'Classification
of hyperbolic 3-manifolds' |
| Oct. 31 |
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| Nov. 7 |
Saul Schleimer, Rutgers U, 'A
metric survey of curve complexes' |
| Nov.14 |
Jacob Rasmussen, Princeton U., 'Khovanov-Rozansky
homology of thin knots' |
| Nov.21 |
Selman Akbulut, 'Invariants of G2 manifolds'
|
| Nov.28 |
Dylan
Thurston, Columbia U, 'The
algebra of knotted trivalent graphs and Turaev's shadow
world' |
| Dec. 5 |
William Jaco, Oklahoma State University,
'The homeomorphism problem' |
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