Geometry and Topology Student Seminar

Tuesdays 2 - 3 pm, Room: Math Thesis Room (4214.03)
Graduate Center CUNY


Schedule for Fall 2019




Date Speaker Topic & Reference
Tuesday Sep 10 Abhijit Champanerkar Polyhedral decompositions of link complements in the 3-sphere and generalizations I
Tuesday Sep 17 Abhijit Champanerkar Polyhedral decompositions of link complements in the 3-sphere and generalizations II
Examples
Tuesday Sep 24 Adam Lowrance (Vassar) An introduction to alternating distance
Tuesday Oct 1 No seminar CUNY holiday
Tuesday Oct 8 No seminar CUNY holiday
Tuesday Oct 15 Michael Marinelli Alexander polynomial from infinite cyclic cover and Seifert surfaces of knots
Tuesday Oct 22 Michael Marinelli Reidemeister torsion interpretation of the Alexander polynomial
Tuesday Oct 29 Michael Marinelli Reidemeister torsion interpretation of the Alexander polynomial
Tuesday Nov 5 Alexander Stas Lorenz Links, Murasugi Sums, and Fiberedness
Tuesday Nov 12 Senia Sheydvasser (CUNY) Quaternion Algebras and Hyperbolic manifolds
Tuesday Nov 19 Paul Beirne (Dublin) Explicit computation of tails of Colored Jones polynomials
Tuesday Nov 26 No Seminar
Tuesday Dec 3 Alexander Stas Translation distance and Murasugi sums
Tuesday Dec 10 Joe Boninger Introduction to Witten Reshetikhin-Turaev (WRT) Invariants of 3-Manifolds


Seminars from previous semesters: Spring 2019   Fall 2018   Spring 2018   Fall 2017   Spring 2017   Fall 2016   Spring 2015   Fall 2014   Spring 2014   Fall 2013   Spring 2013   Fall 2012   Summer 2012   Winter 2012

This seminar is organized by Abhijit Champanerkar .
Related Seminars:
  1. CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar Tuesdays 4:15 pm.
  2. Hyperbolic Geometry Seminar Tuesdays 3-4 pm, Room 4214-03 (Thesis room).
  3. Columbia Geometric Topology Seminar Fridays 2 pm, Columbia University.