topology reading group

Mondays, 4:45pm -- 5:30pm in the Math Department Lounge

The goal of this informal seminar is to share what you're learning about with other topologically-inclined graduate students. Interested in speaking? Email Siddhi!

References:

• On Knot Floer Homology and Cabling II, Matt Hedden

• Knot Surgery and Primeness, Francisco Gonzales-Acuna, Hamish Short

• Only Integral Surgeries Can Yield Reducible Manifolds, Cameron Gordon, John Luecke

• Akbulut corks and h-cobordism of smooth, simply connected 4-manifolds, Rob Kirby

• Transverse Invariants and Right-Veering, Olga Plamenevskaya

• Categorified Invariants and the Braid Group, John Baldwin, Eli Grigsby

• Cosmetic crossing changes of fibered knots, Effie Kalfagianni

• Foliations and the topology of 3-manifolds, II, Dave Gabai

• On Nugatory Crossings for Knots, Ichiro Torisu

• Cosmetic surgery in L-spaces and nugatory crossings, Tye Lidman and Allison Moore

• Reducing heegaard splittings, Andrew Casson and Cameron Gordon

• Strong Heegaard Diagrams and Strong L-Spaces, Josh Greene and Adam Levine

• (1,1) L-Space Knots, Josh Greene, Sam Lewallen, Faramarz Vafaee

• Twisting Spun Knots, E.C. Zeeman