Caltech Geometry and Topology Seminar
Unless a change is noted below, the Caltech Geometry and Topology Seminar takes place on Fridays in 257 Sloan from 3pm to 5pm. All are welcome. We usually have dinner afterwards. Click on the title of a talk for the abstract (if available).

Last update: 10/05/09.

2009 Fall Term

October 2nd No Seminar
October 9th
4-6 pm at UCLA 		Scott Morrison (UC Berkeley)
Yi Ni (Caltech) 		L.A. Joint Topology Seminar: Seminar at UCLA
October 14th
Wednesday 3-5 pm 		Michael Brandenbursky (Technion) Knot theory and quasi-morphisms
October 16th Clayton Shonkwiler (Haverford) Triple linking numbers, ambiguous Hopf invariants, and integral formulas for three-component links
October 21st
Wednesday 3-5 pm 		Shicheng Wang (Peking University) On embedding the torus into 4-space
October 23rd Martin Bridgeman (Boston College) The orthospectra of finite volume hyperbolic manifolds with totally geodesic boundary and associated volume identities
October 28th
Wednesday 3-5 pm 		Rafael Torres (Caltech) (Smooth) 4-manifolds
October 30th Liam Watson (UCLA) Khovanov homology and Dehn surgery
November 2nd
Monday 4-6pm at USC 		Paul Melvin (Bryn Mawr)
Kefeng Liu (UCLA) 		L.A. Joint Topology Seminar: Seminar at USC
November 6th Rumen Zarev (Columbia) Bordered Sutured Floer homology
November 13th Henry Wilton (Caltech) Polygonal words in free groups
November 20th Lars Louder (University of Michigan)
November 27th No Seminar--Thanksgiving holiday
December 4th
Joint Seminar 4-6pm 		Shelly Harvey (Rice)
Yi Liu (Berkeley) Tiny groups and the simplicial volume
December 9th
Wednesday 3-5 pm 		Zhongtao Wu (Princeton)
December 11th Masaaki Suzuki (Akita University)

2010 Winter Term

January 8th Feng Luo (Rutgers)
January 15th

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