Topology Seminar @ LSU 2006-2008
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Fall 2010- Spring 2011 |
Fall 2009- Spring 2010 |
Fall 2008- Spring 2009 |
Fall 2006- Spring 2008 |
| Date | Time | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed, 1/23/2008 Virtual Seminar with UIowa | 3:40-4:30 pm Biolog. Sciences Annex (A663) | Charlie Frohman (U Iowa) | An introduction to Frobenius extensions and TQFT over rings. (Talk is broadcasted from Iowa) |
| Wed, 1/30/2008 Virtual Seminar with UIowa | 3:40-4:30 pm Biolog. Sciences Annex (A663) | Charlie Frohman (U Iowa) | sl_3-TQFT after Khovanov (Talk is broadcasted from Iowa) |
| Conference: Sat, 2/9/2008- Sun, 2/10/2008 | Rice
University | Louisiana
Texas Topology Retreat | |
| Wed, 2/13/2008 Virtual Seminar with UIowa | 3:30-4:30 pm Biolog. Sciences Annex (A663) | Adam
McDougall (U Iowa) | A diagramless link homology (Talk is broadcasted from Iowa) |
| Tue, 2/19/2008 postponed | postponed | Joan Birman (Columbia University) | Lorenz,
modular and twisted torus links |
| Wed, 2/20/2008 Virtual Seminar with UIowa | 3:30-4:30 pm Biolog. Sciences Annex (A663) | Hee Jung Kim (LSU) | Knotting Surfaces in 4-manifolds (Talk is broadcasted from LSU) |
| Mon, 2/25/2008 | 3:40-4:30pm Lockett 276 | Gregor Masbaum (Paris VII) | TQFT and the Nielsen-Thurston classification of surface homeomorphisms |
| Wed, 3/5/2008 Virtual Seminar with UIowa | 3:30-4:30 pm Biolog. Sciences Annex (A663) | Alissa Crans (U. of Chicago/Loyola Marymount University) | 2-groups:
Categorified groups (Talk is broadcasted from UIowa) |
| Wed, 3/12/2008 Virtual Seminar with UIowa | cancelled | Heather Dye (McKendree U.) | cancelled |
| 3/17/2008- 3/23/2008 | Spring Break: No talks | ||
| Wed, 3/26/2008 Virtual Seminar with UIowa | 3:30-4:30 pm Biolog. Sciences Annex (A663) | Hee Jung Kim (LSU) | Knotting Surfaces in 4-manifolds, Part II (Talk is broadcasted from LSU) |
| Conference: Fri, 3/28/2008- Sun, 3/30/2008 | LSU | AMS
Sectional Meeting | Five special
sessions in Geometric Topology |
| Mon,
3/31/2008 | 3:40-4:30 pm Lockett 276 | Charles Livingston (Indiana U) | Twisted Alexander polynomials, metabelian representations, and the knot slicing problem |
| Wed, 4/2/2008 Virtual Seminar with UIowa | 3:30-4:30 pm Biolog. Sciences Annex (A663) | Anna Meyers (U Iowa) | Models for evaluating the Homfly polynomial (Talk is broadcasted from Iowa) |
| Wed, 4/9/2008 Virtual Seminar with UIowa | 3:30-4:30 pm Biolog. Sciences Annex (A663) | Cody Armond (LSU) | On the Huynh-Le Quantum Determinant for the Colored Jones Polynomial (Talk is broadcasted from LSU) |
| Thu, 4/10/2008 Colloquium | 3:40-4:30 pm Lockett 285 | Oleg Viro (Stony Brook) | Compliments to bad spaces |
| Fri, 4/11/2008 | 3:40-4:30 pm Lockett 285 | Oleg Viro (Stony Brook) | Twisted acyclicity of circle and link signatures |
| Mon, 4/28/2008 | 3:40-4:30 pm Lockett 276 | Joan Birman (Columbia University) | Twisted torus knots and Lorenz knots |
| Date | Time | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tue, 9/4/2007 | 5:10-6:00 pm Lockett 276 | Adam Lowrance (LSU) |
On Knot Floer Width and Turaev Genus |
| Mon, 9/10/2007 | 4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 276 | Steve Wallace (LSU) | Surgery untying of knots |
| Wed, 9/12/2007 Virtual Seminar with UIowa | 3:40-4:30 pm Biolog. Sciences Annex (A663) | Moshe Cohen (LSU) | Introductory
remarks on Khovanov homology |
| Mon, 9/17/2007 | 4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 276 | Hee Jung Kim (LSU) | Topological
triviality of smoothly knotted surfaces in 4-manifolds |
| Wed, 9/19/2007 Virtual Seminar with UIowa | 3:40-4:30 pm Biolog. Sciences Annex (A663) | Neal Stoltzfus (LSU) | Quasi-Trees
and Khovanov homology |
| Mon, 9/24/2007 | 4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 276 | Scott Baldridge (LSU) | A symplectically aspherical manifold with b_1=1 |
| Wed, 9/26/2007 Virtual Seminar with UIowa | 3:40-4:30 pm Biolog. Sciences Annex (A663) | Adam Lowrance (LSU) | On knot Floer
width and Turaev genus |
| Mon,
10/01/2007 | 4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 276 | Scott Baldridge (LSU) | A symplectically aspherical manifold with b_1=1, Part II |
| Wed,
10/03/2007 Virtual Seminar with UIowa | 3:40-4:30 pm Biolog. Sciences Annex (A663) | Adam Lowrance (LSU) | On knot Floer
width and Turaev genus, Part II |
| Wed,
10/10/2007 Virtual Seminar with UIowa | 3:40-4:30 pm Biolog. Sciences Annex (A663) | Moshe Cohen (LSU) | On a result
of Ozsvath and Manolescu |
| Mon,
10/15/2007 | 4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 276 | Neal Stoltzfus (LSU) | The
Bollobás-Riordan-Tutte polynomial as a tri-graded Poincaré-polynomial (due to N. Forman), Part I |
| Wed,
10/17/2007 Virtual Seminar with UIowa | 3:40-4:30 pm Biolog. Sciences Annex (A663) | John Etnyre (Georgia Tech) | A geometric
reason for the non-sharpness of Bennequin's inequality for some fibered knots |
| Thu,
10/18/2007 Colloquium | 3:40-4:30 pm Lockett 285 | John Etnyre (Georgia Tech) | Invariants of
embeddings via contact geometry |
| Mon,
10/22/2007 | 4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 276 | Neal Stoltzfus (LSU) | The
Bollobás-Riordan-Tutte polynomial as a tri-graded Poincaré-polynomial (due to N. Forman), Part II |
| Wed,
10/24/2007 Virtual Seminar with UIowa | 3:40-4:30 pm Biolog. Sciences Annex (A663) | Charlie Frohman (U Iowa) | On
Bar-Natan's skein module (Talk is broadcasted from U Iowa) |
| Mon,
10/29/2007 | 4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 276 | Ambar Sengupta (LSU) | Gaussian Matrix Integrals |
| Wed,
10/31/2007 Virtual Seminar with UIowa | 3:40-4:30 pm Biolog. Sciences Annex (A663) | Jeff Boerner (U Iowa) | On the
Asaeda-Przytycki-Sikora homology (Talk is broadcasted from U Iowa) |
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Thu, 11/1/2007 Junior Topology Seminar | 12:40-1:30 pm Lockett 119 | Junior
Topology Seminar | Reading
Seminar |
| Wed, 11/7/2007 Virtual Seminar with UIowa | 3:40-4:30 pm Biolog. Sciences Annex (A663) | Heather Russell (U Iowa) | Embedded
Khovanov homology of S^1\times D^2 and the homology of the
(n,n)-Springer Fiber (Talk is broadcasted from U Iowa) |
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Thu, 11/8/2007 Junior Topology Seminar | 12:40-1:30 pm Lockett 119 | Junior
Topology Seminar | Reading
Seminar |
| Mon,
11/12/2007 | 4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 276 | Pat Gilmer (LSU) | Congruence and quantum invariants |
| Wed,
11/14/2007 Virtual Seminar with UIowa | 3:40-4:30 pm Biolog. Sciences Annex (A663) | Steve Wallace (LSU) | Surgery
equivalence invariants of colored knots (Talk is broadcasted from LSU) |
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Thu, 11/15/2007 Junior Topology Seminar | 12:40-1:30 pm Lockett 119 | Junior
Topology Seminar | Reading
Seminar |
| Wed,
11/28/2007 Virtual Seminar with UIowa | 3:40-4:30 pm Biolog. Sciences Annex (A663) | Adam Lowrance (LSU) | On a paper by
Ozsvath, Rasmussen and Szabo on the odd Khovanov homology (Talk is broadcasted from LSU) |
| Date | Time | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conference: Fri, 1/5/2007- Mon, 1/8/2007 | New Orleans | Annual Meeting of the AMS | Four special sessions in Topology |
| 1/30/2007 | 4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 276 | Emille Davie (U Georgia) | Characterizing Right-Veering Surface Diffeomorphisms via the Burau Representation |
| Conference: 2/3- 2/4/2007 | LSU Lockett 237 | Second Louisiana-Texas- Topology-Retreat (LTTR) | |
| 2/20/2007 | Mardi Gras: No Seminar | ||
| Junior Topology Sem. 3/13/2007 | 3:10-4:30 pm Lockett 276 | Moshe Cohen (LSU) | On Viro's description of Khovanov's knot homology |
| Junior Topology Sem. 3/20/2007 | 3:10-4:30 pm Lockett 276 | Adam Lowrance (LSU) | On the combinatorial description of Oszvath-Szabo Heegaard Floer knot homology by Manolescu-O.-S.-Thurston |
| Junior Topology Sem. 3/22/2007 | 3:10-4:30 pm Lockett 276 | Adam Lowrance (LSU) | On the combinatorial description of Oszvath-Szabo Heegaard Floer knot homology by Manolescu-O.-S.-Thurston, Part II |
| 3/27/2007 | 4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 276 | Kathy Zhong (Cal State Sacramento) | Calculate Kauffman Polynomials of some Knots Using Kauffman Skeins |
| 3/28/2007 | 4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 276 | Stephen Bigelow (UC Santa Barbara) | Representations of Planar Algebras |
| 4/2/-4/8/2007 | Spring Break | ||
| 4/10/-4/12/2007 | Porcelli Lectures: No Seminar | ||
| Junior Topology Sem. 4/17/2007 | 3:10-4:30 pm Lockett 276 | Godi Pruidze (LSU) | Topology of robot motion planning |
| Colloquium 4/19/2007 | 3:40-4:30 pm Lockett 277 | Kevin Knudson (Mississippi State University) | Algorithms in discrete Morse Theory |
| Junior Topology Sem. 4/24/2007 | 3:10-4:30 pm Lockett 276 | Cody Armond (LSU) | On Rasmussen's relation between Khovanov homology and sliceness |
| Conference: Tue, 5/30/2007- Sun, 6/3/2007 | LSU Rooms tba | FRG Conference: A second time around the Volume Conjecture | |
| Date | Time | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tue, 9/19/2006 | 4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 284 | Pat Gilmer (LSU) | Surgery of type-p and quantum invariants of 3-manifolds |
| Tue, 9/26/2006 | 4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 284 | Neal Stoltzfus (LSU) | Dessins in Knot Theory |
| Tue, 10/3/2006 | 4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 284 | David Cimasoni (UC Berkeley) | Generalized Seifert surfaces and signatures of colored links |
| Tue, 10/10/2006 | 4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 284 | Neal Stoltzfus (LSU) | Skein modules of cylinders and quantum cluster algebras |
| Fri, 10/13/2006 | 3:40-4:30 pm Lockett 284 | Indira Chatterji (Ohio State University) | A characterization of hyperbolicity |
| Tue, 10/24/2006 | 4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 284 | Brendan Owens (LSU) | Knot surgeries and negative definite four manifolds |
| Tue, 11/7/2006 | 4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 284 | Matilde Lalin (U of British Columbia) | Functional equations for the Mahler measure of genus 1 curves |
| Thu, 11/9/2006 Virtual Seminar (with Rice University) | 11:00-11:50 am Johnston 338 | Ron Fintushel (Michigan State U.) | Surgery on Nullhomologous Tori |
| Thu, 11/9/2006 Colloquium | 3:40-4:30 pm Lockett tba | Paul Kirk (Indiana U.) | The geography of 4-manifolds with specified fundamental group |
| Fri, 11/10/2006 - Sun, 11/12/2006 | Tulane University New Orleans | Conference: Topology of 4-Manifolds | In Honor of Ron Fintushel |
| Mon, 11/13/2006 | 4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 284 | Matthew Hedden (M.I.T.) | The
meaning and comparison of smooth concordance invariants |