Joint Topology Seminar: Fall 2008

Monday Sep 22
16:30-17:50 (USC - KAP 113) Ciprian Manolescu (UCLA)Link Homology Theories from Symplectic Geometry
Monday Oct 06
17:00-17:50 ( MS 5147) Cagatay Kutluhan (University of Michigan)Seiberg-Witten Floer homology and symplectic forms on S^1 X M^3
Monday Oct 20
16:00-16:50 (USC - KAP 427) David Shea Vela-Vick (University of Pennsylvania)Transverse Invariants and Bindings of Open Books
17:00-17:50 (USC - KAP 427) Ben Webster (MIT)Knot Homology and Geometry
Monday Nov 03
16:00-16:50 (UCLA - MS 5147) Robert Lipshitz (Columbia)Heegaard Floer Theory for Three-Manifolds with Boundary
17:00-17:50 (UCLA - MS 5147) Sucharit Sarkar (Princeton)Constructing CW Complexes from Grid Diagrams
Monday Nov 17
16:00-16:50 (USC - KAP 427) Yanki Lekili (MIT)Broken Lefschetz fibration and Floer theoretical invariants
17:00-17:50 (USC - KAP 427) Mohammed Abouzaid (Clay / MIT)Genus 2 Lagrangians in the 4-Torus Via Mirror Symmetry
Monday Dec 01
16:00-16:50 (UCLA - MS 5147) Tim Perutz (Columbia)A hypercube for fixed-point Floer homology
17:00-17:50 (UCLA - MS 5147) Andrew Cotton-Clay (UC Berkeley)Fixed point bounds for symplectic mapping classes