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Background Seminar

The Geometry and Topology Background Seminar regularly meets on Monday at 12:45 in Skiles 006 unless otherwise indicated.


Spring 2023

Date Title Speaker Institute
Feb 20 TBA Angela Wu LSU

Fall 2022

Date Title Speaker Institute
Dec 5 Morse functions on surfaces, the pants complex, and 4-manifolds 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 TBA Michelle Chu University of Illinois at Chicago
April 13 TBA Maggie Miller Princeton
March 30 TBA Anthony Conway 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

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