Topology Seminar

 
SPRING  2005

Thursdays 4:30-5:30 pm
Fine Hall 314


Date
Speaker
Title
Feb. 3

Andras Stipsicz,
IAS and Renyi Institute of Mathematics

Exotic smooth structures on rational surfaces

Feb. 10 Selman Akbulut, Michigan State and IAS
Feb. 17 Efstratia Kalfagianni
 Crossing changes, Dehn surgery and knot invariants
Feb. 24 Martin Bendersky, CUNY A spectral sequence approach to Normal Forms

Mar. 3
CANCELLED

 Matthew Hedden, Columbia University On knot Floer homology and satellite knots
Mar. 10 Sa'ar-David Hersonsky, Princeton University Diophantine approximations on negatively curved manifolds
Mar. 17    
Mar. 24 Walter Neumann,
IAS and Columbia University 		TBA
Mar. 31 Jacob Rasmussen, Princeton University Deformations of the Khovanov Homology
Tues., Apr. 5, 5:00 p.m.
Fine 214
Please note special date, time and location 		Matthew Hedden, Columbia University On knot Floer homology and satellite knots
Apr. 7 Jeff Brock,
Brown University 		Heegaard splittings, pants decompositions of
surfaces, and volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
Apr. 14 Ayelet Lindenstrauss, Indiana University The Reduced Algebraic K-theory of Square-Zero Extensions by Free Modules
Apr. 21 Peter Kronheimer, Harvard University Higher-rank Donaldson invariants for four-manifolds
Apr. 28 Helmut Hofer,
New York University 		TBA