GEAUX Topology

This page will function as a way for graduate students in the Topology Group to communicate information to other graduate students, who may not already be on the Topology Group email list.

Contact Oliver Dasbach, kasten@math.lsu.edu, if you would like to be added to this list.

The Topology Group currently boasts 7 professors, a post-doc, and about a dozen graduate students. It features:

  • a weekly seminar on Mondays 3:40-4:30pm in Lockett Hall,
  • a weekly video conference on Knot Homologies (and other topics) Wednesdays 3:30-4:30pm in Lockett Hall,
  • three seminar courses a year above Algebraic Topology & the required CORE classes, and
  • the Louisiana-Texas Topology Retreat each year, either here at LSU or in Texas.

Upcoming conferences in Topology:

  • Interactions Between Hyperbolic Geometry, Quantum Topology and Number Theory,
    June 3rd through June 19th, 2009 at Columbia University, New York
  • Knots in Washington XXVII: The 27th Conference on Knot Theory and its Ramifications,
    January 9th through 11th, 2009 at George Washington University, Washington, DC
  • Joint Mathematics Meetings,
    January 5th through 9th, 2009 in Washington, DC

Previous conferences in Topology:

  • MSRI: Low Dimensional Topology Workshop,
    August 11th through 15th, 2008
  • Knots in Washington XXVI, April 18-20, 2008
    The 26th Conference on Knot Theory and its Ramifications
    George Washington University, Washington, DC
  • AMS Sectional Meeting at LSU in March 28th-30th, 2008
      Special Sessions:
    • "on Arrangements and Related Topics" (Cohen)
    • "on Gauge Theory in Smooth and Symplectic Topology (Baldridge, Owens)
    • "on Knot and 3-Manifold Invariants" (Dasbach, Gilmer)
    • "on Recent Advances in Knot Theory: Quandle Theory and Categorified Knot Invariants" (Sam Nelson, Pomona College and Alissa S. Crans, Loyola Marymount University)
  • Louisiana-Texas Topology Retreat in Texas, February 9th-10th, 2008
  • Workshop on Knots and Quantum Computing,
    December 18th through 20th, 2007 at University of Texas in Dallas
  • A second time around the Volume Conjecture,
    May 30th through June 3rd, 2007 at LSU
  • Second Louisiana-Texas-Topology-Retreat,
    February 3rd and 4th, 2007 at LSU
  • Joint Mathematics Meetings,
    January 5th through 8th, 2006, in New Orleans
  • Topology of 4-Manifolds: A Conference in Honor of... Ronald Fintushel's 60th Birthday,
    November 10th through 12th, 2006 at Tulane University, New Orleans
  • Texas Geometry and Topology Conference,
    October 27th through 29th, 2006 at Rice University, Houston