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