The Spring 2016 Student Differential Geometry/Low-Dimensional Topology Seminar meets Thursdays 11-12 in 891 Evans. It is mainly a learning seminar, though research talks are also welcome. Come ready to talk and learn about the relationships between derivatives, geometry, and topology!
The seminar blog is where you can find notes for the talks given in the SDG/L-DT.
| Date | Speaker |
| 2/4 | Julian Chaidez: The Donaldson Flow on Symplectic Manifolds |
| 2/11 | no seminar |
| 2/18 | Morgan Weiler: Smooth 4-Manifolds and Mapping Class Groups of Surfaces |
| 2/25 | Mike Klug: Introduction to Mapping Class Groups |
| 3/3 | Jeff Hicks: Knot Contact Homology |
| 3/10 | Jeff Hicks: A-Polynomial and Augmentations |
| 3/17 | |
| 3/24 | Spring Break |
| 3/31 | Calvin McPhail-Snyder: The Temperley-Lieb Algebra, Topological Quantum Field Theories, and 3-Manifold Invariants |
| 4/7 | Eugene Rabinovich: Higher Categorical Structures in Quantum Field Theory |
| 4/14 | Andrew Hanlon: Some Examples of Exotic Symplectic Manifolds |
| 4/21 | Benjamin Gammage: Anomalies, Spin, and String |
| 4/28 | Catherine Cannizzo: Homological Mirror Symmetry for the Elliptic Curve |
| 5/5 | Tao Su: Ruling polynomials and augmentations of Legendrian Links |
| 5/12 | Finals Week |