TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
SPRING 2010
THURSDAY 4:30-5:30 pm

Fine Hall 314


DATE
SPEAKER
TOPIC
Feb. 4 Sergio Fenley,
Princeton University
Quasigeodesic pseudo-Anosov flows
Please note special time and location:
Feb. 11
11:00 a.m.
Fine 110
Alan Reid,
UT Austin
Grothendieck's problem for 3-manifold groups
Feb. 11
Doug Ravenel,
University of Rochester
The proof of the Periodicity Theorem
Feb. 25 Margaret Doig,
Princeton University
Heegaard Floer Homology and Knot Surgeries
Mar. 4 Zhongtao Wu,
Princeton University
Cosmetic Surgery Conjecture on S^3
Mar. 11

Daniel Wise,
McGill

The structure of groups with a quasiconvex hierarchy
Mar. 25 Jason Behrstock,
Columbia University
Quasi-isometric classification of 3-manifold groups
Apr. 1 Nancy Hingston,
The College of New Jersey
Resonance for loop homology on spheres
Apr. 8 Tao Li,
Boston College
Rank and genus of amalgamated 3-manifolds
Apr. 15 Ciprian Manolescu,
UCLA
A combinatorial approach to Heegaard Floer invariants

Please note special date and location
Fri., Apr. 23
Fine 322

Olga Plamenevskaya,
SUNY Stony Brook
Monodromy factorizations and symplectic fillings
Apr. 29 Zoltan Szabo,
Princeton University
Knot invariants and Khovanov homology