| DATE |
SPEAKER |
TOPIC |
| Feb. 3 |
Peter Horn
Columbia |
Filtering smooth concordance classes of topologically slice knots |
| Feb. 10 |
Rumen Zarev
Columbia |
Bordered Floer homology and the contact category |
| Feb. 24 |
Mike Davis
Ohio State & IAS |
Right-angledness, flag complexes, asphericity |
| Mar. 3 |
Lee Mosher
Rutgers University |
Nondistorted subgroups of Out(F_n), via Lipschitz retraction in spaces of trees (joint work with M. Handel) |
| Mar. 10 |
Matt Hedden
Michigan State |
Unlink detection and the Khovanov module |
| **Note special day, time & location: Mar. 22,
4:00 p.m., Fine Hall 601 |
Sergio Fenley
Florida State University and Princeton University
|
Pseudo-Anosov flows in Seifert fibered
and solvable 3-manifolds |
| Mar. 31 |
Joan Birman
Columbia |
Pseudo-Anosov maps with small dilatation |
| Apr. 7 |
Taras Panov
Moscow State University
|
Geometric structures on moment-angle manifolds |
| Apr. 14 |
Tao Li
Boston College |
The Rank versus Genus Conjecture |
| Apr. 21 |
John Baldwin
Princeton University |
A combinatorial spanning tree model for knot Floer homology |
| Apr. 28 |
Peter Ozsvath
MIT |
Computational aspects of bordered Floer homology |
| May 5 |
Liam Watson
UCLA |
L-spaces and left-orderability |
| May 12 |
Yi Ni
Caltech |
A Heegaard Floer characterization of Borromean knots |