TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
FALL 2011
THURSDAY 4:30-5:30 pm

Fine Hall 314



DATE
SPEAKER
TOPIC
Sept. 22 Vera Vertesi,
IAS/MIT
Transverse invariants in Heegaard Floer homology
Oct. 6 Feng Luo,
Rutgers University
Volume optimization on triangulated 3-manifolds
Oct. 13 Kristen Hendricks,
Columbia University
A rank inequality for the knot Floer homology of branched double covers
Oct. 20 Andras Stipsicz,
Renyi/IAS
Combinatorial Heegaard Floer homology
Oct. 27 Jon Bloom,
MIT
A Kunneth formula in monopole Floer homology
Nov. 10 Rumen Zarev,
UC Berkeley
Toward a minus version of bordered Heegaard Floer homology
Nov. 17 Ciprian Manolescu,
UCLA
Towards cornered Floer homology
Nov. 18 Ulrich Oertel,
Rutgers University, Newark
Automorphisms of Handlebodies
Dec. 8 David Futer,
Temple University
The Jones polynomial and surfaces far from fibers
Dec. 15 Jesse Johnson,
Oklahoma State University
Mapping class groups of Heegaard splittings