Constructions discussed:
more detailed schedule to follow
co-organized with Duncan McCoy
Main reference: Every knot has characterizing slopes- Lackenby
9/8 Duncan McCoy-Introduction, main definitions, history/literature
9/15 Martin Bobb -crash course in hyperbolic 3-manifolds
9/22 Hannah Turner -Section 3
9/29 Alex Moody-More about JSJ, get through end of section 4
10/6 Ahmad Issa- Section 5
10/13 Jonathan Johnson- Section 6, lemma 6.1 and proof of Theorem 1.1 for Y' Seifert fibered
10/27 Lisa Piccirillo - Theorem 1.1 for Y' hyperbolic
11/11 Duncan McCoy- revisiting foundations of JSJ decompositions
11/15 Max Riestenberg- more on JSJ