Student Geometry Seminar

Spring 2024 Schedule 

Jan 26: Organizational meeting at tea time
Feb 2: Sam Bevins -- Lie algebras
Feb 9: John Carney -- 2-Adjacent Knots: All that We Wish We Knew About Them
Feb 23:  Roberto Estrada --  Braid games
Mar 3 (Tentative):  Everett Meike (grad student at NCSU) -- TBD
Spring Break
Mar 15: John Carney -- Vassiliev invariants

Spring 2023 Schedule 

This semester we will alternate between two times: Thursdays 1-2pm and Fridays 11-12 am, and according to the schedule below.

Friday, Jan 20: Organizational
Thursday, Feb 2: Sam Bevins:  Hypergraphs and Lie algebras + \infty
Friday, Feb 10: John Carney: Smooth four-genus
Thursday,  Feb 16: Jeff Buffkin: Complex analysis  topics
Friday, Feb 24: Anna Shaw: Chord diagrams
Thursday, Mar 2: Jeff Buffkin: Complex analysis continued
Friday, Mar 10: Spring Break
Friday, Mar 17:  Brent Cody: Cech cohomology of derived topologies on ordinals
Thursday April 6: D'Angelo Holder:  Complex analysis topics continued
Friday  April 14: Allison Moore: Intro to knot Floer homology 1
Thursday  April 20: Allison Moore: Intro to knot Floer homology 2 (tentative)

Fall 2022 Schedule

Aug 26: Organizational
Sep 2: Marco Aldi: overview of linking number and Kontsevich integral
Sep 9: Sam Bevins:  Hypergraphs and Lie algebras
Sep 16: Sam Bevins (Lie algebras continued) and John Carney (Alexander polynomial - original formulation) — at 11am in HH 4145
Sep 23: John Carney (Alexander polynomial continued)
Sep 30: Eric Evans (Heisenberg Lie algebra)
Oct  7: Eric Evans ((Heisenberg Lie algebra continued) and Anna Shaw (Vassiliev invariants)  — at 3pm in HH 4145
Oct 14: Anna Shaw (Vassiliev invariants continued)— at 11am in HH 4145
Oct 21: Reading Day
Oct 28: Madeline Boyes (Homotopy)
Nov 4: Allison Moore ("What is homology")
Nov 11:  Sam Bevins (Lie algebra cohomology)
Nov 18:  Jeff Buffkin (Lie Algebra cocycles and extensions)— at 11am in HH 4145
Nov 25: Thanksgiving break
Dec 2:  John Carney (Fundamental group)
Dec 9: Eric Evans