Monday 9/15:
Joint algebra-geometry seminar:
Mikhail Khovanov (UC Davis)
3:30 Link homology.
4:30 Homological
algebra and tangle cobordisms.
Tuesday 9/16
Mikhail Khovanov
Informal talk: sl(3) link homology
Tuesday 9/23
Slava Krushkal: 4-manifolds and link
homotopy
Tuesday 10/21
Ismar Volic (UVa)
Bott-Taubes integrals and the Goodwillie
tower for spaces of knots
Tuesday 10/28
Ismar Volic
Bott-Taubes integrals and the Goodwillie
tower for spaces of knots II
Tuesday 11/4
Rob Schneiderman (NYU)
Whitney towers, Milnor's invariants and
the Kontsevich integral
Tuesday 11/11
Jack Morava (Johns Hopkins University)
H-cobordisms of 3-manifolds as a source
for plots for Star Trek movies
Tuesday 11/18
John Etnyre (UPenn)
Knot invariants via contact geometry
Thursday 11/20
Chirashree Bhattacharya
Free groups and their automorphisms
Monday 12/8
Charles Dunkl
Reflection groups and nonsymmetric Jack
polynomials
3:30 pm, KER 317