Geometry-Topology Seminar
Contact:
Dave Futer or Igor RivinThe Seminar usually takes place on Tuesdays at 3:40 PM in Room 617 on
the sixth floor of Wachman Hall.
More information on talks, speaker, the Geometry group, and anything
else you care about can be found at
our blog.
Schedule of Talks - Fall 2011
- Tuesday, August 30, 3:40 PM:
Neil Hoffman,
Boston College,
Hidden symmetries and cyclic
commensurability for small knot complements.
- Tuesday, September 13, 3:40 PM:
Andrew Cooper,
University of Pennsylvania,
Singular time of the Ricci and mean curvature flows.
- Tuesday, September 20, 3:40 PM:
Will Cavendish,
Princeton University,
Finite sheeted covers of 3-manifolds and
the Cohomology
of Solenoids.
- Thursday, September 22, 4:30 PM: (PATCH
seminar, at Penn,
DRL room
4C8)
Andras Stipsicz, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and IAS, Tight contact structures on 3-manifolds. - Thursday, September 22, 6:00 PM: (PATCH
seminar, at Penn,
DRL room
3C8)
Andrew Cooper, University of Pennsylvania, A characterisation of the singular time of the mean curvature flow. - Tuesday, October 4, 3:40 PM:
Dave Futer,
Temple University,
Detecting fiber surfaces.
- Tuesday, October 11, 3:40 PM:
Ryan Blair,
University of Pennsylvania,
Bridge number and tangle product of knots.
- Thursday, October 20, 3:40 PM in room 447: (PATCH
seminar, joint with Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Penn)
Jason DeBlois, University of Pittsburgh, Algebraic invariants, mutation, and commensurability of link complements. - Thursday, October 20, 5:00 PM in room 447: (PATCH
seminar, joint with Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Penn)
Matt Hedden, Michigan State University, Contact structures associated to "rational" open books and their invariants. - Tuesday, November 1, 3:40 PM:
Chris Atkinson,
Temple University,
Small volume link orbifolds.
- Thursday, November 3, 4:00 PM: (PATCH
seminar, at Bryn Mawr, Park Science Building room 336)
Frédéric Bourgeois, Université Libre de Bruxelles, S^1-equivariant symplectic homology and contact homology. - Thursday, November 3, 5:15 PM: (PATCH
seminar, at Bryn Mawr, Park Science Building room 336)
Ana Lecuona, Penn State University, Montesinos knots and the slice-ribbon conjecture - Tuesday, November 8, 3:40 PM:
Haggai Nuchi,
University of Pennsylvania,
Geometry of triple linking.
- Tuesday, November 15, 3:40 PM:
Feng Luo,
Rutgers University,
Solving Thurston's equation in the real
numbers.
- Tuesday, November 22, 3:40 PM:
Kei Nakamura,
Temple University,
On convex and non-convex Fuchsian
polyhedral realizations of hyperbolic surfaces with a single conical
singularity.
- Tuesday, November 29, 3:40 PM:
Abhijit Champanerkar,
CUNY College of Staten Island,
Volume bounds for generalized twisted torus links.
Past Geometry-Topology Schedules
Spring 2011 | Fall 2010 | Spring 2010 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2009 | Fall 2008