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time: Wednesdays, 4:10 - 5:30, A304 Wells Hall
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| Jan. 24 |
Francis Bonahon, U.S.C., 'Quantum
Teichmüller Theory'
Note Special Time 3:00 pm, A304 Wells Hall. |
| Jan. 31 |
Michael Usher, Princeton
U., 'Minimality,
Kodaira dimension, and symplectic sums' |
| Feb.21 |
Sergei Chmutov, Ohio
State U., 'Virtual
links and the Bollobas-Riordan polynomials of ribbon
graphs' Note Special
Time 12:40 - 1:30pm, A304 Wells Hall.
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| Mar.21 |
Robert Lipshitz, Columbia
U., 'Some
computations of Heegaard-Floer homology' |
Mar. 29 |
Peter Storm, Stanford
U, 'Mapping
class group actions on Sl2 representation varieties(II)'
Note Special
day and place:Thurs.. 3:00 pm, A304 Wells Hall
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| Apr. 25 |
Gabriel Indurskis, U.
of British Columbia, 'Culler-Shalen
norms of fillings of the Whitehead link' |
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| Meeting
time: Tuesdays, 4:10 - 5:30, A304 Wells Hall |
| Jan. 23 |
Tom Parker, 'The Yamabe
Problem' |
| Feb. 6 |
Tom Parker, 'The Yamabe
Problem' (continued) |
| Feb.13 |
Casim Abbas, 'The Seiberg
Witten equations and the Weinstein conjecture' (after
Cliff Taubes) |
| Mar.14 |
Jiaping Wang, U. Minnesota,
'Connectedness at infinity of manifolds with positive
spectrum (II)' Note
Special day: Wed.4:10 pm, A304 Wells Hall
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| Apr. 3 |
Jens von Bergmann, Notre
Dame U., 'Compactness
for H-holomorphic maps into K-contact manifolds' |
| Apr.10 |
Mikhail Alyurov, 'An example of singularity formation in Lagrangian mean curvature flow' (after Andre Neves) |
| Apr.12 |
Richard Wentworth, Johns
Hopkins U., 'Harmonic
maps and representations of surface groups' Note
Special day and time:Thurs. 3:00 - 3:50pm, A304 Wells
Hall |
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| Meeting
times: Fridays, 4:00 - 4:50, in A517 Wells Hall |
| Jan. 18 |
Adam Knapp, 'Cohomology operations
and Morse theory' |
| Jan. 26 |
Adam Knapp, 'Cohomology operations
and Morse theory' (continued) |
| Jan. 25 |
rancis
Bonahon, U.S.C., 'Quantum
hyperbolic 6j-symbols' Special
RTG Lecture
Note Special time and place:
4:10 pm, A304 Wells Hall |
| Feb. 2 |
Chris Hays, 'The intersection form
of a 4-manifold determines its homotopy type' |
| Feb. 16 |
Cheuk-Man Hwang, 'The manifold of maps' |
| Feb. 22 |
Cheuk-Man Hwang, 'The manifold of maps'
(continued)
Note Special Day, Thursday:
4:10 pm, A517 Wells Hall |
| Feb. 23 |
Andrew Cooper, 'Kirby Calculus' |
| Mar. 2 |
Nathan Sunukjian, 'Quantum invariants
of 3-manifolds' |
| Mar. 13 |
Jiaping
Wang, U. Minnesota, 'Connectedness
at infinity of manifolds with positive spectrum (I)' Special
RTG Lecture
Note Special
day and place: Tues.4:10 pm, A304 Wells Hall
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| Mar.16 |
Adam Knapp, 'The abelian vortex equations
on Riemann surfaces' |
| Mar. 20 |
Robert
Lipshitz, Columbia U., 'Morse
homology and Floer homology'
Special RTG Lecture Note
Special day and place: Tue.4:10 pm, A304 Wells Hall
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| Mar. 27 |
Walter Neumann, Columbia U., 'Can
one really hear the size of a drum?'
Special RTG Lecture Note
Special day and place: Tue.4:10 pm, A304 Wells Hall
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Mar. 28 |
Peter
Storm, Stanford U., 'Mapping
class group actions on Sl2 representation
varieties'
Special RTG Lecture Note
Special day and place: Wed. 3:00 pm, A304 Wells Hall
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| Mar. 30 |
Oh Hoon Kwon, 'The Lefschetz theorem
for hyperplane sections' |
| Apr. 6 |
De Witt Sumners, Florida State U.,
'DNA
Topology'
Special RTG Lecture - This lecture will be suitable
for faculty and graduate students in mathematics and
in biology.
Note Special Place: Fri.
4:10 pm, A304 Wells Hall
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| Apr. 11 |
Richard
Wentworth, Johns Hopkins
U. 'Harmonic
maps and Higgs bundles'
Special RTG Lecture Note
Special day and place: Wed.4:10 pm, A304 Wells Hall
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| Apr. 13 |
Oh Hoon Kwon, 'The Lefschetz theorem
for hyperplane sections' (continued) |
| Apr. 20 |
Nathan Sunukjian, 'The topology of
fiber bundles' |
| Apr. 26 |
Cagri Karakurt, 'Rational blowdown
and exotic smooth structures on CP2#n(-CP2)' |
| Apr. 27 |
Kwang-ho Choi, 'The bubble tree construction
for J-holomorphic maps' |
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| Meeting
time: Thursdays, 3:00 - 4:00, A304 Wells Hall |
| Jan.25 |
Kim Cervello, 'Bing's house with one
room' |
| Feb. 1 |
Chris Cornwell, 'The Wirtinger
Presentation' |
| Feb. 8 |
Sam Otten, 'The mug and belt trick' |
| Feb. 15 |
Charles Hoffman, 'Lens spaces' |
| Feb. 22 |
Homework Review |
| Mar. 01 |
Ambar Rao, 'Cayley complexes' |
| Mar. 15 |
Kelvin Liu, 'Constructions of 4-manifolds
with arbitrary fundamental groups' |
| Apr. 5 |
Holly Krieger, 'Dehn surgery' |
| Apr. 12 |
Jeff Chapin, 'Computing degrees of
maps' |
| Apr. 19 |
Chris Zin, 'The Euler characteristic
and vector fields' |
| Apr. 26 |
Weiwen Gu, 'Division algebras' |
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| Meeting
time: Mondays, 4:10 - 5:30, A304 Wells Hall |
| Jan. 15 |
Nathan Dunfield, Cal.
Tech, 'Does
a random 3-manifold fiber over the circle?'
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| Mar.19 |
Ron Fintushel, 'Nanotechnology
in dimension 4' |
| Mar. 26 |
Walter
Neumann, Columbia
U., 'Coarse
Classification of 3-Manifolds' |
| Apr. 2 |
Mustafa Kalafat, Stony
Brook, 'Scalar
Curvature and Connected Sums of Self-Dual 4-Manifolds' |
| Apr. 16 |
Mehmet Firat Arikan, 'Improving
the upper bound for the supporting genus of a contact
structure given by a surgery diagram' |
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| Meeting
time: Various, A304 Wells Hall |
| Jan. 16 |
Nathan
Dunfield, Cal.
Tech., 'Surfaces
in Finite Covers of 3-Manifolds: the Virtual Haken Conjecture' |
| Jan. 30 |
Michael Usher, Princeton
U., 'The
topology of symplectic four-manifolds' |
| Feb. 9 |
Paolo Ghiggini, UQAM,
'Contact
structures, Heegaard Floer homology, and fibered knots'
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| Apr. 5 |
De Witt Sumners, Florida
State U., 'Calculating
the secrets of life: Mathematics in biology and medicine'
This
lecture will be suitable for a general audience.
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