Virtual Seminar @ LSU | Topology Group

Virtual Seminar with U Iowa

(co-organized by Oliver Dasbach and Charlie Frohman)

We are running a virtual seminar together with the topology group at the University of Iowa.
Here are some pictures of Dror Bar-Natan's talk.
Speakers so far:

Wed, 2/16/2005 1:00-2:00pm	From LSU	Dan Cohen (LSU)	Topology and Combinatorics of boundary manifolds of arrangements
Wed, 3/30/2005 1:30-2:30pm	From LSU	Xiao-Song Lin (UC Riverside)	Representations of Braid Groups and Colored Homfly Polynomials
Wed, 4/15/2005 1:30-2:30pm	From LSU	Dror Bar-Natan (University of Toronto)	Local Khovanov Homology
Wed, 4/20/2005 1:40-2:30pm	From Iowa	Cameron Gordon (UT Austin)	Knots with Unknotting number 1 and Conway Spheres
Wed, 4/26/2006 1:30-2:30pm	From LSU	David Futer (Michigan State U.)	Geometry and combinatorics of arborescent link complements

Speakers:

Spring 2008
Wed, 3/12/2008 3:30-4:30pm	From Iowa	Heather Dye (McKendree U.)	tba
Wed, 3/5/2008 3:30-4:30pm	From Iowa	Alissa Crans (U. of Chicago/LMU)	tba
Wed, 2/20/2008 3:30-4:30pm	From LSU	Hee Jung Kim (LSU)	Knotting Surfaces in 4-manifolds
Wed, 2/13/2008 3:30-4:30pm	From Iowa	Adam McDougall (U Iowa)	A diagramless link homology
Wed, 1/30/2008 3:30-4:30pm	From Iowa	Charlie Frohman (U Iowa)	sl_3-TQFT after Khovanov
Wed, 1/23/2008 3:40-4:30pm	From Iowa	Charlie Frohman (U Iowa)	An introduction to Frobenius extensions and TQFT over rings
Fall 2007
Wed, 11/28/2007 3:40-4:30pm	From LSU	Adam Lowrance (LSU)	On a paper by Ozsvath, Rasmussen and Szabo on the odd Khovanov homology (Slides)
Wed, 11/14/2007 3:40-4:30pm	From LSU	Steve Wallace (LSU)	Surgery equivalence invariants of colored knots (Slides)
Wed, 11/7/2007 3:40-4:30pm	From Iowa	Heather Russell (U Iowa)	Embedded Khovanov homology of S^1 x D^2 and the homology of the (n,n)-Springer Fiber (Slides)
Wed, 10/31/2007 3:40-4:30pm	From Iowa	Jeff Boerner (U Iowa)	Khovanov homology of links embedded in I-bundles (Slides)
Wed, 10/24/2007 3:40-4:30pm	From Iowa	Charlie Frohman (U Iowa)	On Bar-Natan's skein module (Slides)
Wed, 10/17/2007 3:40-4:30pm	From LSU	John Etnyre (Georgia Tech)	A geometric reason for the non-sharpness of Bennequin's inequality for some fibered knots (Slides)
Wed, 10/10/2007 3:40-4:30pm	From LSU	Moshe Cohen (LSU)	On a result of Ozsvath and Manolescu (Slides)
Wed, 10/3/2007 3:40-4:30pm	From LSU	Adam Lowrance (LSU)	On knot Floer width and Turaev genus, Part II (Slides)
Wed, 9/26/2007 3:40-4:30pm	From LSU	Adam Lowrance (LSU)	On knot Floer width and Turaev genus, Part I (Slides)
Wed, 9/19/2007 3:40-4:30pm	From LSU	Neal W. Stoltzfus (LSU)	Quasi-trees and Khovanov Homology (Slides)
Here are some pictures of the September 19 talk.
Wed, 9/12/2007 3:30-4:30pm	From LSU	Moshe Cohen (LSU)	Khovanov Homology (Slides)

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Virtual Seminar with U Iowa