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May
12
Topology Seminar
Yi Ni, Caltech
A Heegaard Floer characterization of Borromean knots
Fine Hall 322
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May
05
Topology Seminar
Liam Watson, UCLA
L-spaces and left-orderability
Fine Hall 314
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Apr
28
Topology Seminar
Peter Ozsvath, MIT
Computational aspects of bordered Floer homology
Fine Hall 314
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Apr
21
Topology Seminar
John Baldwin, Princeton University
A combinatorial spanning tree model for knot Floer homology
Fine Hall 314
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Apr
14
Topology Seminar
Tao Li, Boston College
The Rank versus Genus Conjecture
Fine Hall 314
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Apr
07
Topology Seminar
Taras Panov, Moscow State University
Geometric structures on moment-angle manifolds
Fine Hall 314
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Mar
31
Topology Seminar
Joan Birman, Columbia University
Pseudo-Anosov maps with small dilatation
Fine Hall 314
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Mar
22
Topology Seminar
Sergio Fenley, Florida State University and Princeton University
Pseudo-Anosov flows in Seifert fibered and solvable 3-manifolds
Fine Hall 601
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Mar
10
Topology Seminar
Matt Hedden, Michigan State University
Unlink detection and the Khovanov module
Fine Hall 314
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Mar
03
Topology Seminar
Lee Mosher, Rutgers University
Nondistortedsubgroups of $Out(F_n)$, via Lipschitz retraction in spaces of trees (joint work with M. Handel)
Fine Hall 314
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Feb
24
Topology Seminar
Mike Davis, Ohio State University and IAS
Right-angledness, flag complexes, asphericity
Fine Hall 314
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Feb
10
Topology Seminar
Rumen Zarev, Columbia University
Bordered Floer homology and the contact category
Fine Hall 314
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Feb
03
Topology Seminar
Paul Horn, Columbia University
Filtering smooth concordance classes of topologically slice knots
Fine Hall 314
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Dec
16
Topology Seminar
Andy Cotton-Clay, Harvard University
Holomorphic Pairs of Pants in Mapping Tori
Fine Hall 314
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Dec
09
Topology Seminar
John Pardon, Princeton University
Gromov's knot distortion
Fine Hall 314
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Dec
02
Topology Seminar
Sa'ar Hersonsky, University of Georgia
Boundary Value Problems on Planar Graphs and Flat Surfaces with integer cone singularities.
Fine Hall 314
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Nov
18
Topology Seminar
Igor Rivin, Temple University
Somewhat simple curves on surfaces, and the mysteries of covering spaces
Fine Hall 314
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Nov
11
Topology Seminar
Lenny Ng, Duke University
Transverse homology
Fine Hall 314
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Oct
28
Topology Seminar
Kei Nakamura, Temple University
Fox re-embedding and Bing submanifolds
Fine Hall 314
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Oct
21
Topology Seminar
Alexander Gaifullin, Moscow State University, Steklov Institute of Mathematics
On local combinatorial formulae for Pontryagin classes
Fine Hall 314
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Oct
14
Topology Seminar
Jacob Rasmussen, University of Cambridge, SUNY Stony Brook
Holomorphic traingle maps in sutured Floer homology
Fine Hall 314
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Oct
07
Topology Seminar
Nathan Broaddus, Ohio State University
Homology of the curve complex and the Steinberg module of the mapping class group
Fine Hall 314
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