Topology Seminar: Fall 2009

Wednesday Sep 30
15:00-15:50 (MS 6221)		Liam Watson (UCLA)	Dehn Surgery, the Montesinos Trick, and Quasi-Alternating Knots
Wednesday Oct 07
15:00-15:50 (MS 6221)		Liam Watson (UCLA)	Dehn Surgery, the Montesinos Trick, and Quasi-Alternating Knots (cont.)
Wednesday Oct 14
15:00-15:50 (MS 6221)		Kevin Iga (Pepperdine University)	Introduction to 4-Manifolds
Wednesday Oct 21
15:00-15:50 (MS 6221)		Ciprian Manolescu (UCLA)	A Combinatorial Approach to 4-Manifold Invariants
Wednesday Oct 28
15:00-15:50 (MS 6221)		Ciprian Manolescu (UCLA)	A Combinatorial Approach to 4-Manifold Invariants (cont.)
Wednesday Nov 04
15:00-15:50 (MS 6221)		Tye Lidman (UCLA)	Heegaard Floer Homology and Integer Surgeries on Knots
Wednesday Nov 11
15:00-15:50 (MS 6221)			No meeting this week
Wednesday Nov 18
15:00-15:50 (MS 6221)		Eamonn Tweedy (UCLA)	Hyperboxes of Chain Complexes
Wednesday Dec 02
15:00-15:50 (MS 6221)		Shicheng Wang (CalTech/Peking U.)	An Unguided Tour that Started with Chirality