Current Year:
2015-16
Previous Years:
2014-15
2013-14
2012-13
Berkeley Topology seminar
Fall 2015 - Spring 2016
Location and time
Introductory talk: Wednesdays 2-3pm in 740 Evans
Research talk: Wednesdays 4-5pm in 3 Evans
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Organizers
Kenji Kozai
Kathryn Mann
Titles and abstracts
Spring 2016
Date
Speaker
Title (click for abstract)
1/13
Michael Freedman (UC Santa Barbara / Microsoft Station Q)
Progress ( or lack thereof ) on the 4D topological surgery conjecture
(2-3pm)
1/20
Vinicius Ramos (Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada)
An introduction to symplectic embedding problems and embedded contact homology
(2-3pm)
Symplectic embeddings, toric domains and billiards
(4-5pm)
1/27
Shicheng Wang (Peking University)
Mapping degree sets, simplicial volumes and representation volumes
(2-3pm)
Chern--Simons theory, surface separability, representation volumes, and dominations of 3-manifolds
(4-5pm)
2/3
Alexandra Pettet (University of British Columbia)
The mapping class group and the outer automorphism group of a free group
(2-3pm)
An algorithm for checking full irreducibility of elements in the outer automorphism group of a free group
(4-5pm)
2/10
No seminar
Berkeley-Tokyo winter school
3/9
Gye-Seon Lee (Universität Heidelberg)
Geometric reflection groups
(2-3pm)
Convex real projective Dehn fillings
(4-5pm)
3/16
Alex Eskin (Chicago)
Chern lectures
3/30
Inkang Kim (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)
Primitive stable representations in hyperbolic 3-manifolds
(2-3pm)
Generalization of primitive stable representations
(4-5pm)
4/6
Rob Kirby (UC Berkeley)
Trisections of finitely presented groups
(2-3pm)
Trisections of finitely presented groups and 4-manifolds
(4-5pm)
4/13
Rob Kirby (UC Berkeley)
Engulfing
(2-3pm)
4/20
Bram Petri (Bonn)
Curves on surfaces
(2-3pm)
Typical and atypical hyperbolic surfaces
(4-5pm)
4/27
Rob Kirby (UC Berkeley)
The Arf invariant is seen in all dimensions (part 1)
(2-3pm)
The Arf invariant is seen in all dimensions (part 2)
(4-5pm)
Fall 2015
Date
Speaker
Title (click for abstract)
8/26
Selman Akbulut (Michigan State)
Knots and exotic structures
(4-5pm)
9/2
Robert Lipshitz (Columbia)
An introduction to Heegaard Floer homology
(2-3pm)
A concordance homomorphism from equivariant Heegaard Floer homology
(4-5pm)
9/23
Inkang Kim (KIAS)
On algebraic convergence of Kleinian groups
(2-3pm)
Convergence of freely decomposable Kleinian groups
(4-5pm)
9/30
Tian Yang (Stanford)
Volume conjectures for Reshetikhin-Turaev and Turaev-Viro invariants
(4-5pm)
10/7
Nikolai Savaliev (Miami)
Instanton homology of knots: an introduction
(2-3pm)
Instanton knot homology and equivariant gauge theory
(4-5pm)
10/14
Moon Duchin (Tufts)
From random graphs to random groups
(2-3pm)
Random nilpotent groups
(4-5pm)
10/28
Grace Work (UIUC)
An introduction to translation surfaces
(2-3pm)
Gap distribution for slopes of saddle connections on the octagon
(4-5pm)
11/4
No seminar
Bowen lectures (Jacob Lurie)
11/11
No seminar
Veterans day
11/18
Katrin Wehrheim (Berkeley)
Introduction to instanton and Lagrangian Floer theories
(2-3pm)
A well defined part of the Atiyah-Floer conjecture
(4-5pm)
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