| DATE |
SPEAKER |
TOPIC |
| Feb. 8 |
Jesse Johnson ,
Yale University |
Mapping class groups of Heegaard splittings |
| Feb. 15 |
Joe Masters,
SUNY Buffalo
|
1-relator groups and Heegaard splittings |
| Feb. 22 |
Micheal Usher,
Princeton University |
Minimality, Kodaira dimension, and symplectic sums |
| Mar. 1 |
Larry Ng,
Princeton and Duke University
|
Transverse knots and Heegaard Floer homology |
| Mar. 8 |
Tao Li,
Boston College |
Heegaard splittings and the distance of amalgamated 3-manifolds |
| Mar. 15 |
Peter Milley,
U. Melbourne |
Hunting the smallest hyperbolic 3-manifold with Mom-technology |
| Mar. 29 |
Andras Juhasz,
Princeton University |
Floer homology and surface decompositions |
| Apr. 12 |
Richard Kent,
IV |
Skinning maps |
| Apr. 19 |
Joan Licata,
Yale University |
Minimal-complexity surfaces in pretzel link complements |
| Apr. 26 |
Hossein Namazi,
Princeton University |
Heegaard Splittings and Hyperbolic Geometry |
| May 3 |
Doug Park,
University of Waterloo |
Exotic smooth structures on small 4-manifolds |