Student Geometry and Topology Seminar
This is a seminar hosted by and for MSU graduate students. In Spring 2024, meetings will be held in Wells Hall C304 on Mondays at 1:00pm. This seminar is organized by Rithwik Vidyarthi and Marc Gotliboym; please contact either to join the seminar's mailing list.
Spring 2024
January 22: Danika Van Niel
Title: Lesser Simply Paired Transfer Systems
January 29: Ivan So
Title: Instanton Floer Homology and some derived invariants
February 5: Max Throm
Title: The Metric Tensor and its role in Physics
February 12: Everett Meekins
Title: The Laplace Spectrum is Geometric!
February 19: Nick Robino
Title: Manifold Detection Problems
March 11: Marc Gotliboym
Title: The Many Guises of the Bar Construction
March 18: Keshav Sutrave
Title: Quaternion and on and on
March 25: Rithwik Vidyarthi
Title: The Casson-Gordon Invariant
April 8: Shashini
Title: 6j symbol
Fall 2023
September 12: Ivan So
Title: Donaldson Polynomial and the Topological Consequences
September 19: Dean Spyropoulos
Title: Odd Cooper-Krushkal projectors via grading (multi)categories
September 26: Tristan Wells
Title: L-space konts in sl_n-like knot Floer homology
October 3: Zhixin Wang
Title: The mass of the universe
October 17: Rakhal
Title: Classification of Flat Principal G-Bundles over Manifolds
October 31: Rithwik Vidyarthi
Title: The Levine-Tristram signature and an invariant for tori in S1xS3
November 7: Amey
Title: Symplectic Geography problem (Held in A106 Wells Hall at 3:00pm)
November 14: Chris St. Clair
Title: Introduction to Python and Grid Homology
November 28: Shikha Bhutani
Title: Bott Periodicity
December 5: Danika Van Niel
Title: Computational approaches to twisted topological Hochschild homology
Spring 2023
January 30: Chloe Lewis
Title: Building a bridge from algebra to topology (and back)
February 6: Zhonghui Sun
Title: Algebraic K-Theory and Trace Method
February 13: Keshav Sutrave
Title: Topology is a cold place: Hodge theorem via heat flow
February 27: Ivan So
Title: A Detour to General Relativity
March 13: Rob Mcconkey
Title: Linear Bounds on the Cross Cap Number of Links
March 20: Chen Zhang
Title: d invariants obstruction to sliceness of a class of algebraically slice knots
March 27: Christopher St. Clair
Title: What even are exotic manifolds?
April 3: Rithwik Vidyarthi
Title: Alexander's horned sphere and its double
April 10: Danika Van Niel
Title: The algebraic structure of twisted topological Hochschild homology
April 17: Tristan Wells-Filbert
Title: Khovanov-Rozansky type knot Floer homology for L-space knots
April 24: Dean Spyropoulos
Title: Odd annular Khovanov homology as a bigraded gl(1|1) representation
Fall 2022
September 23: Dean Spyropoulos
Title: Jones-Wenzl projectors and a categorification
September 30: Zhonghui Sun
Title: Symmetric spectra
October 7: Ivan So
Title: On the tools and proof of nonsliceness of the Conway knot
October 14: Chloe Lewis
Title: Real topological Hochschild homology computations
October 21: Zhixin Wang
Title: Introduction to Ricci flow and the Poincare conjecture
October 28: Amey Joshi
Title: Exotic simply connected compact 4-manifolds
November 4: Christopher St. Clair
Title: An introduction to grid homology
November 11: Danika Van Niel
Title: Twisted topological Hochschild homology is almost a Hopf algebra
November 18: Joseph Melby
Title: A partial family tree of the figure-eight knot
December 2: Christopher Potvin
Title: Hypergraphs and their homology