In this seminar, speakers give talks aimed at introducing a research area to graduate students. This is a seminar hosted by the RTG group in Wells Hall C514 on Mondays at 4:00pm.
Title: Khovanov homology and homological skein invariants
Title: TBA
Title: What is a random 3-manifold and what does it look like
Title: The Lefschetz fixed point theorem and traces
Title: String topology and homological algebra
Title: Introduction to Artin groups and K(pi,1)-conjecture
Title: Triangulations of three-manifolds: geometry, dynamics, and topology
Title: Mutation, after Conway
Title: The Temperly-Lieb and Bar-Natan categories
Title: An introduction to algebraic K-theory
Title: Diffeomorphism groups and gauge theory
Title: 2-knots are slice
Title: Fibered knots: what, why and how
Title: The skein theory TQFT
Title: Homotopy, Spectra & Group Actions
Title: The Temperly-Lieb and Bar-Natan categories