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Current Year: 2019-20 Previous Years: 2018-19 2017-18 2016-17 2015-16 2014-15 2013-14 2012-13 |
Berkeley Topology Seminar
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| Date | Speaker | Title (click for abstract) |
| Feb 5th | Joshua Greene (Boston College) | (4pm-5pm) On loops intersecting at most once |
| Feb 12th | Nicholas Miller (UC Berkeley) | (2pm-3pm) Arithmetic lattices and superrigidity (4pm-5pm) Finiteness theorems for totally geodesic submanifolds |
| Feb 19th | Lei Chen (Cal Tech) | (2pm-3pm) An introduction to Homeo and Diff groups (4pm-5pm) Actions of Homeo and Diffeo groups on manifolds |
| Feb 26th | Matthew Hedden (Michigan State University) | (2pm-3pm) Background Material (4pm-5pm) Corks, Involutions, and Heegaard Floer homology |
| Mar 4th | Siddhi Krishna (Boston College) | (2pm-3pm) An introduction to fibered knots: construction and detection (4pm-5pm) Taut foliations and Dehn surgery along positive braids |
| Mar 11th | Slava Krushkal (University of Virginia) | (4pm-5pm) Applications of TQFT to polynomial identities for graphs on surfaces |
| Mar 18th | Joshua Howie (UC Davis) | CANCELLED |
| Mar 25th | Spring Break | No Seminar |
| Apr 1st | Jim Hoste (Pitzer College) | CANCELLED |
| Apr 7th | Ryan Budney (University of Victoria) | (4pm-5pm) |
| Apr 15th | Gabriel Islambouli (University of Waterloo) | (2pm-3pm) (4pm-5pm) |
| Apr 22nd | Ryan Budney (University of Victoria) | CANCELLED |
| Apr 29th | Du Pei (Harvard) | (2pm-3pm) (4pm-5pm) |
May 6th | Justin Katz (Purdue University) | CANCELLED |
| Date | Speaker | Title (click for abstract) |
| Aug 28 | James Farre (Yale) | (2pm-3pm) End invariants of infinite volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds (4pm-5pm) Infinite volume and bounded cohomology |
| Sep 4 | Claire Burrin (Rutgers University) | (4pm-5pm) Lattice point counting and saddle connections |
| Sep 11 | No Seminar | No Seminar |
| Sep 18 | Alexander Rasmussen (Yale University) | (2pm-3pm) Introduction to groups acting on hyperbolic metric spaces (4pm-5pm) Analogs of the curve graph for infinite type surfaces |
| Sep 25 | William Worden (Rice University) | (2pm-3pm) Ideal pants block manifolds and Dehn filling (4pm-5pm) Small knots of large Heegaard genus |
| Oct 2 | Clayton McDonald (Boston College) | (4pm-5pm) Doubly slice odd pretzel knots |
| Oct 9 | Karen Vogtmann (University of Warwick) | CANCELLED |
| Oct 16 | Nikhil Savale (Universität zu Köln) | (2pm-3pm) ECH=HM, their Q-grading and the eta invariant (4pm-5pm) Sub-leading asymptotics of ECH capacities |
| Oct 23 | Jing Tao (University of Oklahoma) | (2pm-3pm) Bers' proof of Nielsen-Thurston classification theorem (4pm-5pm) A tale of 2 metrics |
| Oct 30 | Vladimir Markovic (California Institute of Technology) | (4pm-5pm) Harmonic surfaces and simple loops |
| Nov 6 | Philip Engel (University of Georgia) | (4pm-5pm) Integral affine spheres |
| Nov 13 | Karen Vogtmann (University of Warwick) | (2pm-3pm) Introduction to Outer Space (4pm-5pm) The rational Euler characteristic of Out(Fn) |
| Nov 20 | Inkang Kim (Korea Institute for Advanced Studies) | (2pm-3pm) Introduction to systole (4pm-5pm) Systole growth of locally symmetric manifolds under the congruence coverings |
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