Joint Topology Seminar: Fall 2009

Friday Oct 09
16:00-17:00 (MS 6229) Scott Morrison (UC Berkeley)Blob homology
17:00-18:00 (MS 6229) Yi Ni (Caltech)Some applications of Heegaard Floer homology to Dehn surgery
Monday Nov 02
16:00-17:00 (USC-KAP 145) Kefeng Liu (UCLA)Recent results on moduli spaces
17:00-18:00 (USC-KAP 145) Paul Melvin (Bryn Mawr)Degree formulas for higher order linking
Friday Dec 04
16:00-17:00 (Caltech) Shelly Harvey (Rice)Filtrations of the Knot Concordance Group
17:00-18:00 (Caltech) Yi Liu (UC Berkeley)Tiny groups and the simplicial volume