Geometry/Topology at Michigan State University
 Seminars - Fall '05
 
Floer Homology Seminar - Meeting time: Wednesdays, 4:10 - 5:30, A304 Wells Hall
Date Details
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   
Nov. 9  Arda Bugra Ozer, 'Heegaard-Floer homology and torsion'
Nov. 16   
Nov. 30  Arda Bugra Ozer, 'Heegaard-Floer homology and torsion (continued)'  
Dec. 7   
 
Geometric Analysis Seminar - Meeting time: Tuesdays, 4:10 - 5:30, A304 Wells Hall
Date Details
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   
Nov. 8 Hugh Bray, Duke. University, 'Negative point mass singularities in general relativity'
Nov.15   
Nov.22  Marianty Ionel, U. Toledo, 'Special Lagrangian submanifolds in the deformed conifold' 
Dec. 1   
Dec.6  Hsiao-Bing Cheng, Cornell University 
 
Graduate Student Seminar - Meeting times: Tuesdays, 2:30 - 3:30, A117 Wells Hall; Thursdays, 2:30 - 3:30, A517 Wells Hall
Date Details
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
 
Graduate Student Seminar - Math 868 - Meeting time: Wednesday, 4:10 - 5:00, A117 Wells Hall
Date Details
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'
 
Topology Seminar - Meeting time: Mondays, 4:10 - 5:30, A304 Wells Hall
Date Details
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   
Oct. 24 Dick Canary, U. Michigan, 'Classification of hyperbolic 3-manifolds' 
Oct. 31   
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'
 
Geometry/Topology Colloquium Speakers - Meeting time: Thursdays, 4:10 - 5:00, A304 Wells Hall
Date Details
Oct.13  Bruce Kleiner, Yale University, Uniformization and geometrization in a metric space setting 
Oct.27  William Minicozzi, Johns Hopkins University, Embedded minimal surfaces