TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
SPRING 2011
THURSDAY 4:30-5:30 pm
Fine Hall 314
**Please note special day, time & location**
DATE
SPEAKER
TOPIC
Feb. 3
Peter Horn
Columbia
Filtering smooth concordance classes of topologically slice knots
Feb. 10
Rumen Zarev
Columbia
Bordered Floer homology and the contact category
Feb. 24
Mike Davis
Ohio State & IAS
Right-angledness, flag complexes, asphericity
Mar. 3
Lee Mosher
Rutgers University
Nondistorted subgroups of Out(F_n), via Lipschitz retraction in spaces of trees (joint work with M. Handel)
Mar. 10
Matt Hedden
Michigan State
Unlink detection and the Khovanov module
**Note special day, time & location:
Mar. 22, 4:00 p.m., Fine Hall 601
Sergio Fenley
Florida State University and Princeton University
Pseudo-Anosov flows in Seifert fibered
and solvable 3-manifolds
Mar. 31
Joan Birman
Columbia
Pseudo-Anosov maps with small dilatation
Apr. 7
Taras Panov
Moscow State University
Geometric structures on moment-angle manifolds
Apr. 14
Tao Li
Boston College
The Rank versus Genus Conjecture
Apr. 21
John Baldwin
Princeton University
A combinatorial spanning tree model for knot Floer homology
Apr. 28
Peter Ozsvath
MIT
Computational aspects of bordered Floer homology
May 5
Liam Watson
UCLA
L-spaces and left-orderability
May 12
Yi Ni
Caltech
A Heegaard Floer characterization of Borromean knots