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