LSU Papyrophobics Anonymous
 

Last updated: 05/06/08

The Topology paper readers club meets Thursdays at 12:40pm to read through and discuss that week's chosen paper.  Below is the schedule for the upcoming weeks' reading assignments.  The goal is to struggle through some of our favorite research papers together in an informal environment.  All are welcome to attend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Your assignment, should you choose to accept it is...

Meeting: Paper to read:
Thursday 1 Nov 2007 Jozef Przytycki and Maxim Sokolov, Surgeries on periodic links and homology of periodic 3-manifolds.  arXiv:math.GT/0002231 v1 27 Feb 2000. Sections 0 and 1.
8 Nov 2007

Finish Surgeries on periodic links

29 Nov 2007, 4 Dec Lenhard Ng, Framed knot contact homology.  arXiv:math.GT/0407071v3 22 May 2007
   
 

Spring and Summer 2008

TBA Dior Bar-Natan, On Khovanov's Categorification of the Jones Polynomial. arXiv:math.QA/0201043 v3 5 June 2002.
Thursday 8 May 2008 Khovanov, A Categorification of the Jones Polynomial. arXiv:math.QA/9908171 v2 30 August 1999.
   
 

In the future

TBA James F. Davis, The homology of irregular dihedral branched covers of S^3.  Math. Ann. 301, pp. 519-528 (1995).
TBA Louis Kauffman, A self-linking invariant of virtual knots.  arXiv:math.GT/0405049v2.
TBA Natasha Harrell and Sam Nelson, Quandles and linking number.  arXiv:math.GT/0608487v2.
TBA Przytycki and Yasuhara, Linking numbers in rational homology 3-spheres, cyclic branched covers and infinite cyclic covers.  arXiv:math.GT/0111203v1
   

 

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