Topology Seminar Fall 2018

The seminar meets on Thursdays, at 9:00 AM in SCEN 322. Expository, educational and research talks are welcomed! Currently we have the following schedule. The titles link to abstracts. Other topology minded events are noted. For more information or questions contact Matt Clay.

Date and Time	Speaker	Title
8/23		No Seminar: Organizational Meeting
8/30	Andreas Floer	On the Arnold Conjecture (10/29/1986: CUNY Einstein Chair Mathematics Seminar Video)
9/6	Maryam Mirzakhani	Dynamics of Moduli Spaces of Curves I (11/22/2014: Current Develoments in Mathematics 2014)
9/13	Nick Castro	Trisections and Lefschetz fibrations
9/20	Maryam Mirzakhani	Dynamics of Moduli Spaces of Curves II (11/22/2014: Current Develoments in Mathematics 2014)
9/27	Jean-Pierre Mutanguha	Hyperbolic immersions of free groups
10/4	Matthew Clay	Right-angled Artin groups as normal subgroups of mapping class groups I
10/11		No Seminar
10/18	Matthew Clay	Right-angled Artin groups as normal subgroups of mapping class groups II
10/25	Amey Kaloti	Embedding problem for Weinstein and contact manifolds
11/1	Maggie Miller (Princeton)	Fibering ribbon disk complements NOTE AMS Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting 11/3-4 at UArk
11/8	Yo'av Rieck	The unbearable hardness of unknotting
11/15	Matthew Day	Extended flux maps on surfaces
11/22		No Seminar: Thanksgiving Holiday
11/29	Peter Kronheimer & Tomasz Mrowka	Knots, three–manifolds and instantons (Plenary Lecture 11 Rio ICM2018)
12/6		No Seminar

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