Topology Seminar

TOPOLOGY SEMINAR

FALL 2005
THURSDAY 4:30-5:30 pm

Fine Hall 314

DATE	SPEAKER	TOPIC
Sept. 29	Hossein Namazi, Princeton University	Heegaard Splittings and Hyperbolic Geometry
Oct. 6	Micheal Usher, Princeton University	Floer homology for fibered 3-manifolds
Oct. 13	Jacob Rasmussen, Princeton University	Computing Khovanov-Rozansky Homology
Oct. 20	Nancy Hingston, College of New Jersey	Periodic solutions of Hamilton's equations on Tori
Oct. 27	Feng Luo, Rutgers University	Volume and angle structures on 3-manifolds
Nov. 3
Nov. 10	Marc Lackenby, Oxford University	Counting subgroups and covering spaces in dimension 3
Nov. 17
Please note special date: Tuesday Nov. 22	Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois (Urbana/Champaign)	TBA
Dec. 8	Nathan Dunfield, Caltech	Hyperbolic rational homology 3-spheres of large injectivity radius