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)