Columbia Geometric Topology Seminar

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September 15 Double Header! 10:45am and 1:00pm	Matthias Kreck – Heidelberg	Elementary computation of low dimensional bordism groups and Rohlin's theorem.
	Matthias Kreck – Heidelberg	Simply connected asymmetric manifolds.
September 22	Dylan Thurston	A combinatorial definition of Heegaard Floer homology for links
September 25 Monday 4pm	Dani Wise – McGill	Special cube complexes
September 26 Tuesday 4pm	Stavros Garoufalidis – Georgia Tech	Gevrey series in quantum topology
September 29	Stavros Garoufalidis – Georgia Tech	Resurgent functions in quantum topology
October 6, 10:45 Note Time!	Joan Licata	Pretzel links and the Thurston norm
October 13	Aaron Lauda	Open-closed TQFTs and Tangle homology
October 20	Thang Le – Georgia Tech	L^2-torsion and knot invariants
October 27	Dylan Thurston	Combinatorial Heegard-Floer homology: Invariance and invariants of transverse knots
November 3	Kasra Rafi	Closed geodesics in the thin part of moduli space
November 10 Double header! 10:45am and 1:00pm	Catharina Stroppel	The representation theory and geometry behind Khovanov homology
	Lev Birbriar – Universidade Federal do Ceará	Lipschitz geometry of complex surfaces
November 17	Joseph Masters – Buffalo	1-relator groups and Heegaard splittings
November 24	No Seminar, University Holiday
December 1 Note times!	Anna Wienhard – Chicago, 10:45a	"Representations of Surface Groups and higher Teichmueller spaces
	Paul Seidel, 2:30p	Homological algebra of Lefschetz fibrations
December 8	William Jaco	The Homeomorphism Problem (following the Geometrization Conjecture)
December 15	Lisa Traynor	Legendrian Torus Links
December 22

February 16	Indira Chatterji