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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 8: Tonie Scroggin: "Understanding geometric objects through a combinatorial lens, part 1"</p> |
| - | <p>Oct 9: </p> | + | <p>Jan 15: CANCELLED </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 29: Tonie 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 26: NO SEMINAR </p> |
| - | <p>Nov 27: no 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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| </ul> | </ul> | ||
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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> | ||
| + | </p></p> | ||
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