Date | Speaker | Topic & Reference |
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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 |