| January 26 |
Joan Birman |
Lorenz knots:
A bridge between weather prediction and number theory |
| February 2 |
Rich Schwartz |
Unbounded orbits for outer billiards |
February 9
Double header!
10:45am and 1:00 pm |
Ji-Young Ham |
The minimal dilatation of a genus two surface |
| Dror Bar-Natan |
Algebraic knot theory |
| February 16 |
Indira Chatterji |
Median spaces |
| February 23 |
Jesse Johnson |
Mapping class groups of Heegaard splittings |
March 2
Double header!
10:45am and 1:00 pm |
Yoav Moriah |
Genericity issues for high distance Heegaard splittings |
| Alex Bene |
Canonical lifts of the Johnson homomorphisms to the Torelli groupoid |
March 8 11:00am
Note date & time!
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Francis Bonahon |
Quantum Teichmüller Theory |
March 9
Double header!
10:45am and 1:00 pm |
Francis Bonahon |
Quantum hyperbolic 6j-symbols |
| Andrew Putman |
An infinite presentation of the Torelli group |
| March 16 |
No seminar, Spring Break
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March 23
Double header!
10:45am (Room 207) and 1:00 pm |
Matthew Hedden |
Lens space surgeries and algebraic curves |
| Ken Baker |
Non-null homologous knots in lens spaces with once-punctured tori |
March 30
Double header!
10:45am and 1:00 pm |
Anne Thomas |
Lattices acting on polyhedral complexes |
| Yair Minsky |
The asymptotic cone of the mapping class group |
| April 6 |
Constance Leidy |
Higher-order degrees and obstructions on the fundamental group of algebraic
curve complements |
April 13
Double header!
10:45am and 1:00 pm |
Carlo Petronio |
Hyperbolic graphs of small complexity |
| Stefan Friedl |
Commensurability of 3-manifolds and L2-invariants |
| April 20 |
Genevieve Walsh |
Commensurability classes of 2-bridge knots |
April 27
Double header!
10:45am and 1:00 pm |
Kevin Walker |
Khovanov homology as a 4-category;
Khovanov skein modules for 4-manifolds |
| Dusa McDuff |
Uniruled symplectic manifolds |
| May 4 |
Jessica Purcell |
Volumes of knots and links |
| May 11 |
Pierrette Cassou-Nogués |
On the image of a pencil of lines by an endomorphism of ℂ2 |
| May 25 |
Cornelia Drutu |
Embeddings of families of rescaled graphs into Cayley graphs,
examples of groups with exotic properties |