The Geometry and Topology Background Seminar regularly meets on Monday at 12:45 in Skiles 006 unless otherwise indicated.
Fall 2022
The Geometry and Topology Background Seminar will be online this semester. Please contact John Etnyre for the link to the seminars if you are interested.
| Date | Title | Speaker | Institute |
| Dec 5 | TBA | Gabriel Islambouli | UC, Davis |
| Nov 14 | Out(F_n) and Stallings Folds | George Domat | Rice |
| Sept 19 | From walls to cube complexes | Abdul Zalloum | U. Toronto |
Spring 2020
The Geometry and Topology Background Seminar has been cancelled starting March 30 due to the shutdown of on campus activities related to COVID-19.
| Date | Title | Speaker | Institute |
| April 20 | University of Illinois at Chicago | ||
| April 13 | Princeton | ||
| March 30 | MPI | ||
| March 9 | Seifert forms and the 4-genus | Allison Miller | Rice University |
| Feb 17 | Algebraic definitions for string topology | Kate Poirier | CUNY – City College of Technology |
| Feb 3 | Khovanov homology and invariants of braid closures | Gage Martin | Boston College |
| Jan 27 | The coalgebra of singular chains and the fundamental group | Manuel Rivera | Purdue |
Fall 2019
| Date | Title | Speaker | Institute |
| Dec 2 | Orderability of Knot Groups | Jonathan Johnson | UT, Austin |
| Oct 28 | Heegaard Floer homology and Seifert manifolds | Sungkyung Kang | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Oct 21 | Groups as geometric objects |
Jacob Russell | CUNY |
| Sept 30 | Fundamental groups of projective varieties | Corey Bregman | Brandeis University |
| Sept 23 | An Introduction to Braids and Complex Polynomials |
Michael Dougherty | Colby College |
| Aug 26 | Topology in complex dynamics | Jasmine Powel | University of Michigan |
Spring 2019
| Date | Title | Speaker | Institute |
| Apr 15 | High-dimensional knots, and rho-invariants | Patrick Orson | Boston College |
| Apr 8 | Seifert fibered manifolds | Tye Lidman | NCSU |
| Apr 3 | Classical knot invariants and slice surfaces | Peter Feller | ETH Zurich |
| Apr 1 | Doubly slice Montesinos links | Ahmad Issa | University of Texas |
| Mar 11 | Spheres in 4-manifolds | Hannah Schwartz | Bryn Mawr |
| Mar 4 | A partial order on nu+ equivalence classes | Kouki Sato | University of Tokyo |
| Feb 11 | Singularities of Lagrangian and Legendrian fronts | Daniel Álvarez-Gavela | IAS |
Fall 2018
| Date | Title | Speaker | Institute |
| Dec 3 | Introduction to symplectic flexibility | Oleg Lazarev | Columbia |
| Nov 12 | Models of unstable motivic homotopy theory | Tom Bachmann | MIT |
| Nov 5 | Introduction to Freedman’s disk embedding conjecture | Min Hoon Kim | Korea Institute for Advanced Study |
| Oct 15 | Transverse links in the tight three sphere | Lev Tovstopyat-Nelip | Boston College |
| Sept 24 | Order Linking Numbers | Miriam Kuzbary | Rice University |