This is a seminar hosted by and for MSU graduate students. In Fall 2025, meetings will be held in Wells Hall C514 on Tuesdays at 4:10pm. This seminar is organized by Amey Joshi (joshiam3@msu.edu) and Luke J Seaton (seatonlu@msu.edu); please contact either to join the seminar's mailing list.
Title: An Introduction to Volume Conjecture
Title: Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem
Title: Heegaard Floer homology and contact structures
Title: Generalizing Covering Spaces to Infinity (and beyond?)
Title: The Grassmannian Convexity Conjecture
Title: Seifert fibered 3-manifolds and Turaev-Viro invariants volume conjecture
Title: Representations of the braid groups via R matrices
Title: Khovanov and sl(3) homology and equivariant knots
Title: Curvature functions on 2-manifolds
Title: Do Cotangent Bundles Detect the Smooth Topology of Their Base?
Title: An Introduction to Khovanov Homology
Title: Jones Wenzl projectors and odd Khovanov homology
Title: Khovanov Homology Returns
Title: Different ways to open a bottle
Title: Combinatorial and Persistent Laplacians: from Graphs to TDA
Title: An Introduction to Enumerative Geometry via Schubert Calculus
Title: The history of the interleaving distance: A journey from homology in R^3 to categorical flows
Title: Bennequin Inequality of Knots in s-invariant
Title: An Introduction to Hyperbolic Knot Theory
Title: Lesser Simply Paired Transfer Systems
Title: Instanton Floer Homology and some derived invariants
Title: The Metric Tensor and its role in Physics
Title: The Laplace Spectrum is Geometric!
Title: Manifold Detection Problems
Title: The Many Guises of the Bar Construction
Title: Quaternion and on and on
Title: The Casson-Gordon Invariant
Title: 6j symbol
Title: Donaldson Polynomial and the Topological Consequences
Title: Odd Cooper-Krushkal projectors via grading (multi)categories
Title: L-space konts in sl_n-like knot Floer homology
Title: The mass of the universe
Title: Classification of Flat Principal G-Bundles over Manifolds
Title: The Levine-Tristram signature and an invariant for tori in S1xS3
Title: Symplectic Geography problem (Held in A106 Wells Hall at 3:00pm)
Title: Introduction to Python and Grid Homology
Title: Bott Periodicity
Title: Computational approaches to twisted topological Hochschild homology
Title: Building a bridge from algebra to topology (and back)
Title: Algebraic K-Theory and Trace Method
Title: Topology is a cold place: Hodge theorem via heat flow
Title: A Detour to General Relativity
Title: Linear Bounds on the Cross Cap Number of Links
Title: d invariants obstruction to sliceness of a class of algebraically slice knots
Title: What even are exotic manifolds?
Title: Alexander's horned sphere and its double
Title: The algebraic structure of twisted topological Hochschild homology
Title: Khovanov-Rozansky type knot Floer homology for L-space knots
Title: Odd annular Khovanov homology as a bigraded gl(1|1) representation
Title: Jones-Wenzl projectors and a categorification
Title: Symmetric spectra
Title: On the tools and proof of nonsliceness of the Conway knot
Title: Real topological Hochschild homology computations
Title: Introduction to Ricci flow and the Poincare conjecture
Title: Exotic simply connected compact 4-manifolds
Title: An introduction to grid homology
Title: Twisted topological Hochschild homology is almost a Hopf algebra
Title: A partial family tree of the figure-eight knot
Title: Hypergraphs and their homology