Working groups and virtual classes
Research reading seminar in geometry and topology
Organizer: Cliff Taubes (Harvard) Research reading seminar in geometry and topology
Email Cliff and introduce yourself for access.
Reading seminar in Heegaard Floer homology
Organizer: Tom Mark (University of Virginia)Reading seminar in Heegaard Floer homology
Contact Tom (tmark at virginia.edu) for details, to join the email list, and for the zoom link.
Fridays at 1PM ET.
The seminar, aimed at graduate students, will help develop a working knowledge of calculational techniques and applications of Heegaard Floer theory. Participants read papers from the literature and discuss questions or make presentations during meetings. As a continuation of a reading course that started in January 2020, new participants will ideally have some understanding of the fundamentals of Heegaard Floer homology at the level of the survey papers http://math.mit.edu/~petero/Lectures.pdf and/or http://math.mit.edu/~petero/Introduction.pdf.
Online course in knot theory
Organizer: Roger Fenn (Sussex), Lou Kauffman (UIC)Online course in knot theory
Contact Roger (roger.fenn at gmail dot com) if you are interested.
First meeting Thursday April 16 at 1PM ET, subsequent meetings Tuesdays and Fridays at 1PM ET.
The first few sessions will be an elementary introduction and then future sessions will be a discussion of advanced features including the latest developments in Knot Theory. Guest lecturers will be encouraged.
Virtual lecture series on algebraic topology from a geometric viewpoint
Organizer: Dev Sinha (Oregon/MIT)Virtual lecture series on algebraic topology from a geometric viewpoint
Email Dev Sinha at his University of Oregon email address to be included in the mailing list for the lecture series.
Mondays at 12PM ET, re-starting March 30th with an additional "catch up" lecture March 30 at 11.
The level will be aimed at graduate students, not only in algebraic topology but in geometric topology as well as algebraic or differential or symplectic geometry, as well as anyone else interested in a geometric take on “intermediate” topics in algebraic topology. I will only assume basic algebraic topology (a year long course) and some basic differential topology (a subset of what is in the book by Guillemin-Pollack).
Former Virtual LDT Working Seminars:
Reading seminar in contact and symplectic topology (Summer 2020)
Organizers: Tye Lidman (NCSU), Juanita Pinzon-Caicedo (MPIM/Notre Dame), Tom Mark (University of Virginia) Reading seminar in contact and symplectic topology (Summer 2020)
The seminar will consist of graduate students presenting and discussing various results and tools from contact and symplectic topology in dimensions 3 and 4.