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Inanc Baykur, 'Generalizations of symplectic
structures and Lefschetz fibrations on smooth 4-manifolds' |
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| Sept.20 |
Inanc Baykur, 'Generalizations of symplectic
structures and Lefschetz fibrations on smooth 4-manifolds' (continued) |
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| Sept.27 |
Inanc Baykur, 'The Donaldson-Smith
invariant and Perutz's fibered field theory' |
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| Oct. 4 |
Jessica Purcell (U.T. Austin), 'Links
with reflective symmetry' |
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Lawrence Roberts, 'Trying to understand
the combinatorial version of knot Floer homology' |
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| Oct. 18 |
Selahi Durusoy, 'The Sarkar-Wang approach
to finding combinatorial diagrams' |
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| Oct. 25 |
Francois Gueritaud (USC), 'Schlafli's
volume formula and geometrization'
This lecture will be an
introduction and suitable for graduate students.
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| Nov. 8 |
Adam Knapp, 'Embedded contact homology' |
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| Nov.15 |
Adam Knapp, 'Embedded contact homology'
(continued) |
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| Nov. 29 |
Genevieve Walsh, Tufts University,
'Commensurability
classes of 2-bridge knots'
Note Special time: 3:00
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time: Tuesdays, 4:10 - 5:30, A304 Wells Hall |
| Sept. 5 |
Mikhail Alyurov, 'Aloff-Wallach Spaces:
Volumes, Curvatures, Injectivity Radii' |
| Sept.12 |
Mikhail Alyurov, 'Aloff-Wallach Spaces:
Volumes, Curvatures, Injectivity Radii', (continued) |
| Sept.19 |
Hui-Chuan Huang, 'The resolvent and
scattering operator on near-product-hyperbolic spaces' |
| Sept.26 |
Hui-Chuan Huang, 'The resolvent and
scattering operator on near-product-hyperbolic spaces',
(continued) |
| Oct..27 |
Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford U., 'Asymptotically
symmetric Einstein metrics',
Note Special time and place:
3:00 pm, A517 Wells Hall |
| Nov. 7 |
Oh Hoon Kwon, 'An isoperimetric inequality
with applications to curve shortening' (after M. Gage) |
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| Nov.14 |
Jon Wolfson, 'Fill radius and positive
scalar curvature in 3 dimensions' (after Schoen-Yau) |
| Nov.29 |
Rick Schoen, Stanford U., 'Sharp
Isoperimetric Inequalities for Minimal Surfaces'
Note Special time: 4:10
pm, Wednesday
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| Dec. 8 |
Casim Abbas, 'The Seiberg Witten equations
and the Weinstein conjecture' (after Taubes)
Note Special day and time:
3:00 pm, Friday |
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times: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 - 12:20, A517 Wells
Hall |
| Sept. 7 |
Andrew Cooper, 'Morse theory' |
| Sept. 12 |
Andrew Cooper, 'Morse theory' (continued) |
| Sept. 14 |
Adam Knapp, 'Branched covers' |
| Sept. 19 |
Adam Knapp, 'Branched covers' (continued) |
| Sept. 21 |
Chris Hays, 'Heegaard diagrams' |
| Sept. 26 |
Chris Hays, 'Heegaard diagrams' (continued) |
| Sept. 28 |
Selahi Durusoy, 'Computing Heegaard-Floer
homology' |
| Oct. 3 |
Selahi Durusoy, 'Computing Heegaard-Floer
homology' (continued) |
| Oct. 5 |
Nathan Sunukjian, 'Lefschetz fibrations' |
| Oct. 10 |
Nathan Sunukjian, 'Lefschetz fibrations'
(continued) |
| Oct. 12 |
Kwang-Ho Choi, 'Chern classes' |
| Oct. 17 |
Kwang-Ho Choi, 'Chern classes' (continued) |
| Oct. 19 |
Chris Cornwell, 'Cayley graphs' |
| Oct. 24 |
Chris Cornwell, 'Cayley graphs' (continued) |
| Oct. 26 |
Ignat Sorokoand, 'Lie groups &
Lie algebras'
Note Special time and place:10:30
am, A204 Wells Hall |
| Oct. 26 |
Rafe
Mazzeo, Stanford U., 'Geometric
analysis on stratified spaces', Special
RTG Lecture
Note Special time and
place: 2:00 pm, A304 Wells Hall |
| Oct. 31 |
Adam Knapp, 'Torsion' |
| Nov. 2 |
Ignat Sorokoand, 'Lie groups &
Lie algebras' (continued) |
| Nov. 7 |
Adam Knapp, 'Torsion' (continued) |
| Nov. 9 |
Chris Hays, 'The Maslov index' |
| Nov.14 |
Chris Hays, 'The Maslov index' (continued) |
| Nov.16 |
Joerg Enders, 'Harnack inequalities
and an application to steady and expanding Ricci solitons' |
| Nov.21 |
Joerg Enders, 'Harnack inequalities
and an application to steady and expanding Ricci solitons'
(continued}
Note Special time and place:
12:20 pm, A117 Wells Hall |
| Nov.28 |
Genevieve
Walsh, Tufts University,
'Hyperbolic
Geometry and Commensurability Classes', Special
RTG Lecture
Note Special time and place:
4:10 pm, A304 Wells Hall |
| Nov. 30 |
Firat Arikan, 'Open books and contact
Structures' |
| Dec. 5 |
Chaitanya Senapathi, 'Stiefel-Whitney
classes' |
| Dec. 7 |
Chaitanya Senapathi, 'Stiefel-Whitney
classes' (continued) |
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time: Wednesdays, 5:00 - 6:00, A204 Wells Hall
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| Sept. 13 |
Chun Lung Liu, 'The Grassmann manifold'
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| Sept. 27 |
Ambar Rao, Manifolds with boundary' |
| Oct. 4 |
Adam Craig Shafer, 'The Whitney embedding
theorem' |
| Oct.11 |
Jeffrey Scott Chapin, 'Sard's Theorem' |
| Oct.18 |
Chris Cornwell, 'The degree of a map' |
| Oct. 25 |
Chris Cornwell, 'The degree of a map'
(continued) |
| Nov. 1 |
Yuting Zou, 'The Poincaré -
Hopf theorem' |
| Dec. 6 |
Matthew Bond, 'Connections' |
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time: Mondays, 4:10 - 5:30, A304 Wells Hall |
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| Sept.18 |
Yongbin Ruan (U. Michigan), 'Symplectic
birational geometry'
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| Sept.25 |
Gregory James Pearlstein, 'Hodge
conjecture and normal functions' |
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| Oct. 2 |
Selman Akbulut, `Mirror
duality inside G2-manifolds' |
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| Oct. 9 |
Gregory James Pearlstein, 'Hodge
conjecture and normal functions' (continued) |
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| Oct. 23 |
Francois Gueritaud (USC), 'The
pleating lamination conjecture: a solution for the once-punctured
torus' |
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| Oct. 30 |
Robert Bell, 'Injective
endomorphisms of Artin groups' |
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| Nov. 6 |
Robert Bell, 'Injective
endomorphisms of Artin groups' (continued) |
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| Nov. 13 |
David Futer, 'Volume,
twist number, and the Jones polynomial of hyperbolic knots' |
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| Nov. 20 |
David Futer, 'Volume,
twist number, and the Jones polynomial of hyperbolic knots'
(continued) |
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| Nov. 27 |
Michael Shapiro, 'Cluster
algebras and triangulated surfaces again' |
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| Dec. 4 |
Marc Culler, U. Illinois,
Chicago Circle, 'Mod
p homology and hyperbolic volume' |
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