Topology
Seminar @ LSU
Fall 2008
The topology seminar will meet
weekly,
Graduate students are strongly encouraged to attend
Monday, 3:40-4:30 pm, Lockett tba
Contact: Oliver Dasbach
| Fall 2008 | |||
| Spring 2008 | |||
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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Tue, 2/19/2008 postponed |
postponed |
Joan Birman (Columbia University) |
Lorenz, modular and twisted torus links |
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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) |
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Mon, 2/25/2008 |
3:40-4:30pm Lockett 276 |
Gregor Masbaum (Paris VII) |
TQFT and the Nielsen-Thurston classification of surface homeomorphisms |
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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) |
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Wed, 3/12/2008 Virtual Seminar with UIowa |
cancelled |
Heather Dye (McKendree U.) |
cancelled |
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3/17/2008- 3/23/2008 |
Spring Break: No talks | ||
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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Thu, 4/10/2008 Colloquium |
3:40-4:30 pm Lockett 285 |
Oleg Viro (Stony Brook) |
Compliments to bad spaces |
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Fri, 4/11/2008 |
3:40-4:30 pm Lockett 285 |
Oleg Viro (Stony Brook) |
Twisted acyclicity of circle and link signatures |
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Mon, 4/28/2008 |
3:40-4:30 pm Lockett 276 |
Joan Birman (Columbia University) |
Twisted torus knots and Lorenz knots |
| Fall 2007 | |||
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Tue, 9/4/2007 |
5:10-6:00 pm Lockett 276 |
Adam Lowrance (LSU) |
On Knot Floer Width and Turaev Genus |
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Mon, 9/10/2007 |
4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 276 |
Steve Wallace (LSU) |
Surgery untying of knots |
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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 |
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Mon, 9/17/2007 |
4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 276 |
Hee Jung
Kim (LSU) |
Topological triviality of smoothly knotted surfaces in 4-manifolds |
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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
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Mon, 9/24/2007 |
4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 276 |
Scott Baldridge (LSU) |
A symplectically aspherical manifold with b_1=1 |
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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
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Mon, 10/01/2007 |
4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 276 |
Scott Baldridge
(LSU) |
A symplectically aspherical manifold with b_1=1, Part II |
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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
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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
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Mon, 10/15/2007 |
4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 276 |
Neal Stoltzfus (LSU) |
The Bollobas-Riordan-Tutte polynomial as a tri-graded Poincare-polynomial (due to N. Forman), Part I |
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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 |
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Thu, 10/18/2007 Colloquium |
3:40-4:30 pm Lockett 285 |
John Etnyre (Georgia Tech) |
Invariants of embeddings via contact geometry |
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Mon, 10/22/2007 |
4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 276 |
Neal Stoltzfus (LSU) |
The Bollobas-Riordan-Tutte polynomial as a tri-graded Poincare-polynomial (due to N. Forman), Part II |
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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) |
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Mon, 10/29/2007 |
4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 276 |
Ambar Sengupta (LSU) |
Gaussian Matrix Integrals |
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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
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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
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Mon, 11/12/2007 |
4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 276 |
Pat Gilmer (LSU) |
Congruence and quantum invariants |
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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
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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) |
| Spring 2007 | |||
| 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) |
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| 2/20/2007 |
Mardi Gras: No
Seminar |
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| 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 |
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| 4/10/-4/12/2007 |
Porcelli
Lectures: No Seminar |
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| 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 |
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| Fall 2006 | |||
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| Tue, 9/19/2006 | 4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 284 |
(LSU) |
Surgery of type-p and quantum invariants of 3-manifolds |
| Tue, 9/26/2006 | 4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 284 |
(LSU) |
Dessins in Knot Theory |
| Tue, 10/3/2006 | 4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 284 |
(UC Berkeley) |
Generalized Seifert surfaces and signatures of colored links |
| Tue, 10/10/2006 | 4:40-5:30 pm Lockett 284 |
(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 Colloqium |
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 |
| Previous Semesters: Spring 2006 | |||