This semester, the Topology seminar will not have a specific concentration, to allow graduate students and faculty to speak on subjects of their own choosing. We will also have visiting speakers, as usual.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 13 | Igor Rivin Temple University |
Volumes of hyperbolic polyhedra (degenerating and otherwise) |
| September 20 | Georgi Gospodinov | Contact Structures and the Thurston-Bennequin invariant. |
| September 27 | Paul Norbury University of Melbourne |
Topological invariants of complex polynomials. |
| October 3 (Note: Brandeis Tuesday) |
Georgi Gospodinov | Thurston-Bennequin invariant of connected sums of knots. |
| October 11, 18, 25 |
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No Seminar (Rosh Hashana) |
| November 1 | Shri Rajagopalan | Introduction to Heegaard-Floer Homology |
| November 8 | Elizabeth Denne Harvard University |
Alternating Quadrisecants of Knots |
| November 15 Field Trip to Physics Department |
Christopher Beasley Harvard University |
Non-Abelian Localization For Chern-Simons Theory Physics Building, Room 229 |
| November 22 | Aliaa Barakat | Frobenius manifolds and integrable hierarchies |
| November 29 | Shri Rajagopalan | Heegaard-Floer Knot Homology |
| December 6 | Kevin Wortman Yale University |
Finiteness properties of arithmetic groups over function fields |