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 <​p><​h2><​a name="​Logistics"></​a>​Logistics</​h2></​p>​ <​p><​h2><​a name="​Logistics"></​a>​Logistics</​h2></​p>​
-<​p>​For ​Fall 2024, this seminar meets weekly on Wednesdays from 4-5:30pm in MSB 1147. The seminar is co-organized by Trevor Oliveira-Smith and Alex Simons. If you have any questions you can reach out via email at tdoliveirasmith@ucdavis.edu and asimons@ucdavis.edu <br /><br /></​p>​+<​p>​For ​Winter 2025, this seminar meets weekly on Wednesdays from 4-5:00pm in MSB 1147. The seminar is co-organized by Trevor Oliveira-Smith and Alex Simons. If you have any questions you can reach out via email at tdoliveirasmith@ucdavis.edu and asimons@ucdavis.edu <br /><br /></​p>​
  
 <p> For the purposes of advertising the talks each week and sending out general information about topology/​geometry at Davis, we will use the following listserv: geotopgrads@ucdavis.edu. <p> For the purposes of advertising the talks each week and sending out general information about topology/​geometry at Davis, we will use the following listserv: geotopgrads@ucdavis.edu.
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 If you would like to give a talk, please email the seminar organizers (see Logistics above). The tentative schedule is available here:</​p>​ If you would like to give a talk, please email the seminar organizers (see Logistics above). The tentative schedule is available here:</​p>​
  
-<p>Sept 27: Trevor Oliveira-Smith "Knots in 3-manifolds" ​</p> +<​p><​h3>Winter 2025</h3
-<​p>​Oct 2:  ​</p+<p>Jan 8Tonie Scroggin: "​Understanding geometric objects through a combinatorial lens, part 1"</​p>​ 
-<p>Oct 9: </​p>​ +<p>Jan 15CANCELLED ​</​p>​ 
-<p>Oct 16:</​p>​ +<p>Jan 22 Tonie Scroggin: "​Understanding geometric objects through a combinatorial lens, part 2" ​</​p>​ 
-<p>Oct 23:</​p>​ +<p>Jan 29Tonie Scroggin: "​Understanding geometric objects through a combinatorial lens, part 3" ​</​p>​ 
-<p>Oct 30:</​p>​ +<p>Feb 5 Ian Sullivan: "​Exotically knotted surfaces and their stabilizations through skein lasagna modules",​ part 1 </​p>​ 
-<p>Nov 6:</​p>​ +<p>Feb 12 Ian Sullivan: "​Exotically knotted surfaces and their stabilizations through skein lasagna modules",​ part 2 </​p>​ 
-<p>Nov 13: </​p>​ +<p>Feb 19 ​Peyton Wood: "​Defining n-distinguishing Quandles" ​</​p>​ 
-<p>Nov 20:</​p>​ +<p>Feb 26NO SEMINAR ​</​p>​ 
-<p>Nov 27no seminar (early Thanksgiving break) ​</​p>​ +<p>Mar 5 ​Trevor Oliveira-Smith:​ "???"​</​p>​ 
-<p>Dec 4:</​p>​ +<p>Mar 12:  Zach Ibarra</p> 
-</p></​p>​+ 
 <​p><​h2><​a name="​topics"></​a>​Possible Seminar Topics</​h2></​p>​ <​p><​h2><​a name="​topics"></​a>​Possible Seminar Topics</​h2></​p>​
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 <​li>​Lamplighter groups</​li>​ <​li>​Lamplighter groups</​li>​
 <li> Heegaard splittings</​li>​ <li> Heegaard splittings</​li>​
-<li> Legendrian knots (definition and classical invariants </li>+<li> Legendrian knots (definition and classical invariants</li>
 <​li>​Find an unsolved problem in Adams' <​i>​The Knot Book</​i>​ and explain work that's been done on it</​li>​ <​li>​Find an unsolved problem in Adams' <​i>​The Knot Book</​i>​ and explain work that's been done on it</​li>​
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 <​p><​h2>​Advanced</​h2>​ <​p><​h2>​Advanced</​h2>​
 <ul> <ul>
 +<li> Choose an unsolved problem on the Kirby problem list and explain the most recent progress on that problem.</​li>​
 <​li>​Double suspension of the Mazur homology 3-sphere is the 5-sphere</​li>​ <​li>​Double suspension of the Mazur homology 3-sphere is the 5-sphere</​li>​
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 +<​p><​h2>​Previous Talks</​h2>​
 +<​p><​h3>​Fall 2024</​h3>​
 +<​p>​Sept 27: Trevor Oliveira-Smith "Knots in 3-manifolds"​ </p>
 +<​p>​Oct 2:  Trevor Oliveira-Smith "​Knots,​ 3-manifolds,​ and 4-manifolds"​ </p>
 +<​p>​Oct 9: Bryce Thompson "​Introduction to symplectic manifolds"​ </p>
 +<​p>​Oct 16: no seminar (conflicts with department Fall Welcome Event) </p>
 +<​p>​Oct 23: Daniela Cortes Rodriguez "​Introduction to Weinstein Structures"</​p>​
 +<​p>​Oct 30: Zach Ibarra "​Gromov-Witten Invariants, part i"</​p>​
 +<​p>​Nov 6: Zach Ibarra "​Gromov-Witten Invariants, part ii"</​p>​
 +<​p>​Nov 13: Alex Simons "​Introduction to contact topology"</​p>​
 +<​p>​Nov 20: Alex Simons "​Legendrian knot theory"</​p>​
 +<​p>​Nov 27: no seminar (early Thanksgiving break) </p>
 +<​p>​Dec 4: Annette Belleman "​Cubical Homotopy Theory"</​p>​
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