| DATE |
SPEAKER |
TOPIC |
| Sept. 20 |
Michel Boileau,
Tolouse |
Sequences of metrics with a local curvature bound and an asymptotically
hyperbolic thick part on aspherical 3-manifolds |
| Sept. 27 |
Slaven Jabuka,
University of Nevada |
Cobordance, concordance and 3-stranded pretzel knots |
| Oct. 4 |
Tony Bahri,
Rider University |
Piecewise Polynomials and the Equivariant Cohomology of Weighted Projective Spaces |
| Oct. 11 |
Tim Perutz,
Columbia University |
Spherically-fibered coisotropic submanifolds |
| Oct. 25 |
Joseph Maher,
Oklahoma State |
Random walks on the mapping class group |
| Nov. 8 |
Dan Silver,
South Alabama |
When knots don't fiber |
| Nov. 29 |
Ken Baker,
Georgia Tech |
Euler characteristics of knots |
| Dec. 6 |
John Baldwin,
Columbia University |
Comultiplication and the Ozsvath-Szabo contact invariant |
| Dec. 13 |
Ben Webster,
IAS |
Components of Springer fibers and Khovanov's arc algebra |
| Dec. 20 |
Martin Bridson,
Imperial College |
Subdirect products of surfaces, homological finiteness, and residually-free groups |