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