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| Meeting time: Wednesdays, 4:10 - 5:00, A304 Wells Hall |
| Sept 10 |
Jack Calcut, 'Artin presentation theory: A discrete group-theoretic theory of simply connected smooth 4-manifolds'
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| Sept 17 |
Lawrence Roberts, 'Finding bounds for the Heegaard-Floer τ-invariant of a satellite knot'
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| Sept 24 |
Johanna Mangahas, U. Michigan, 'Uniform uniform exponential growth of subgroups of the mapping class group' |
| Oct 1 |
Robert Bell, 'Davis manifolds and boundaries of CAT(0) groups' |
| Oct 8 |
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| Oct 15 |
Yvonne Lai, U. Michigan, 'An effective compactness theorem for Coxeter groups' |
| Oct 22 |
Gordana Matic, U. Georgia, 'The contact class in sutured Floer homology' |
| Oct 29 |
Stefano Vidussi, U.C. Riverside, 'Twisted Alexander polynomials and fibered 3-manifolds' |
| Nov 5 |
John Baldwin, Princeton U., 'Khovanov homology, open books, and tight contact structures' |
| Nov 12 |
Yi Ni, MIT, 'Dehn surgeries that reduce the Thurston norm of a fibered manifold'
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| Nov 19 |
Jonathan Yazinski, Indiana U, 'Fundamental groups of symplectic 4-manifolds'
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| Meeting
time: Tuesdays, 4:10 - 5:00, A304 Wells Hall |
| Sept 23 |
Celso Doria, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, 'Variational principle for the Seiberg-Witten equations' |
| Sept 30 |
Steve Rosenberg, Boston U., 'Characteristic Classes on Loop Spaces' |
| Oct 9 |
John Lott, UC Berkeley, 'Optimal transport and Perelman's reduced volume' Special day, time, and place: Thursday 2 pm - 3 pm A 517 WH
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| Oct 16 |
Charles Epstein, U. Pennsylvania, 'Boundary value problems for the Dirac operator and the Atiyah-Singer Theorem' Special day, time, and place: Thursday 2 pm - 3 pm A 517 WH
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| Oct 21 |
Richard Siefring, 'Asymptotics and intersection theory of punctured pseudoholomorphic curves' |
| Nov 4 |
Xiaodong Wang, 'Boundary effects and rigidity on compact manifolds with nonnegative or positive scalar curvature' |
| Nov 11 |
Jens von Bergmann, 'Compactness for H--holomorphic maps and open book decompositions' |
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times: Tuesdays, 1:50 - 2:40, A517
Wells Hall |
| Sept 2 |
Jeff Chapin, 'Seiberg-Witten invariants and you' |
| Sept 9 |
Chris Hays, 'Symplectic toric manifolds'
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| Sept 16 |
Oh Hoon Kwon, 'Stein manifolds' |
| Sept 23 |
Tom Jaeger, 'Khovanov homology of tangles' |
| Sept 30 |
Andrew Cooper, 'Can you really call that a 'maximum'?: Hamilton's Principle for systems' |
| Oct 7 |
Kyungbae Park, 'The Thom conjecture' |
| Oct 14 |
Harrison Cheuk-Man Hwang, 'Estimates used in Seiberg-Witten theory' |
| Oct 21 |
Cheryl Balm, 'The h-cobordism theorem' |
| Oct 23 |
Gordana Matic, U. Georgia, 'Open books on 3-manifolds and contact invariants'
Special
RTG Lecture Special day, time, and place: Thursday 1:50 pm - 2:40 pm A 517 WH
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| Oct 28 |
Kwang Ho Choi, 'Harmonic map heat flow from surfaces' |
| Oct 28 |
Stefano Vidussi, U.C. Riverside, 'Symplectic 4-manifolds with trivial canonical class'
Special
RTG Lecture Special time, and place: Tuesday 4:10 - 5:00 pm A 304 WH
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| Oct 30 |
Harrison Cheuk-Man Hwang, 'Spin and spinc manifolds' |
| Nov 4 |
Chris Cornwell, 'Introduction to topics for John Baldwin's talk' |
| Nov 11 |
Carlos Vega, 'How to bury dirt' |
| Nov 18 |
Dan Smith, 'Introduction to Reidemeister torsion' |
| Nov 25 |
Nathan Sunukjian, 'Monopole Floer homology and lens space surgery ' |
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| Sept 16 |
Adam Joseph Giambrone, Tianran Chen, 'Group Actions on Manifolds' |
| Oct 7 |
Nikolaos Pattakos, Manousos Maridakis, 'Integration of Vector Fields' |
| Oct 21 |
Martin Kell, 'More constructions with vector bundles' |
| Nov 4 |
Henrik Nils Jansson and Jingguo Lai, 'Hamiltonian systems' |
| Nov 11 |
David Thaddeus Krcatovich, 'The Lie Derivative' |
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Nov 11 |
Elizabeth Carole Wilson and Daniel Patrick Barkley, 'The Hodge star operator' |
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| Meeting
time: Fridays, 4:00 - 5:00, A204A Wells Hall |
| Oct 17 |
Jens von Bergmann, 'Compactness results for H-holomorphic maps' |
| Oct 24 |
Jeff Chapin, 'Broken trajectories from compactification in symplectizations'
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| Nov 14 |
Jens von Bergmann, TBA |
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| Meeting
time: Mondays, 4:10 - 5:00, A304 Wells Hall |
| Sept 15 |
Jack Calcut, 'Noncompact codimension-1 real-algebraic manifolds' |
| Sept 29 |
Selman Akbulut, 'Corks, plugs and exotic smooth structures'
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| Oct 20 |
Selman Akbulut, 'The Dolgachev surface' |
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