Thursdays 4:30-5:30 pm
Fine Hall 314
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| Sept. 16 |
Paolo Lisca, Pisa |
Contact Ozsvath-Szabo invariants and tight contact structures |
| Sept. 23 | Ana Cannas da Silva, Princeton University |
Fold forms for four-folds |
| Sept. 30 | Wu-Chung Hsiang, Princeton University |
Relative Heegaard Homology |
| Oct. 7 | Greg Mc Shane, Toulouse |
Simple geodesics and identities old and new |
| Oct. 14 | Maryam Mirzakhani Princeton University |
Counting simple closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces |
| Oct. 21 | Stavros Garoufalidis, Georgia Tech. | The Geometry of the Jones polynomial |
| Oct. 28 | ||
| Nov. 4 | Dick Canary, University of Michigan and Wesleyen |
Deformation theory of hyperbolic 3-manifolds |
| Nov. 11 | David Gabai, |
Shrinkwrapping and the Taming of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds |
| Nov. 18 | ||
| Dec. 2 | Alejandro Adem, University of Wisconsin and Princeton University | Toroidal orbifolds and group cohomology |
| Dec. 9 | Ciprian Manolescu, Princeton University | Symplectic Floer theories, Hilbert Schemes, and the Jones polynomial |