UB Geometry and Topology Seminar 

2016-2017

 

Unless noted, all seminars are on Friday at 4pm, in Mathematics 122. 2015-16 seminar information can be found at Adam Sikora's webpage. 2014-15 seminar listing can be found here.

Feb 10       Tim Riley (Cornell): What calculating in the trivial group has to do with RNA-folding, the design of liquid crystals, and counting fixed points
Mar 3       Johanna Mangahas (Buffalo): Normal right-angled Artin groups in mapping class groups
Mar 10       Marco Varisco (SUNY-Albany): On Whitehead groups of infinite groups with torsion
Apr 14       Tolga Etgü (Koç/Princeton): Fukaya categories of plumbings and multiplicative preprojective algebras
Apr 21       Abigail Thompson (UC Davis): An invariant of trisected 4-manifolds
Apr 28       Jonah Gaster (Boston College): Combinatorial properties of curve graphs
May 5       Sam Taylor (Yale): Veering triangulations and fibered faces of 3-manifolds
May 12       Steven Sivek (Bonn): SU(2)-cyclic surgeries and the pillowcase

Fall 2016

Sep 2       Organizational meeting.
Sep 16       Erkao Bao (UCLA): Definition of cylindrical contact homology in dimension three
Sep 23       (Joint with AWM) Elizabeth Munch (SUNY-Albany): The interleaving distance
Oct 21       Tarik Aougab (Brown): Hyperbolic subspaces and super-polynomial divergence
Nov 4       Bülent Tosun (Alabama): Obstructing pseudo-convex embeddings of Brieskorn spheres into complex 2-space
Dec 2       Jeremy Van Horn-Morris (Arkansas): Incorporating genus into the Heegaard Floer differential

 

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