Topology and Geometry Seminar Fall 2008 - T 3:30-4:30

Topology and Geometry Seminar Fall 2008


Organizer: Eriko Hironaka
Write to hironaka@math.fsu.edu with comments or questions about the seminar.

Date Speaker Title
9/2/08 Organizational Meeting
9/9/08 Eric Klassen Playing Closeness Against Energy Using Splines
9/16/08 Ettore Aldrovandi Classifying group laws and homotopy types
9/23/08 Ettore Aldrovandi Classifying group laws and homotopy types (continued)
9/30/08 Ettore Aldrovandi Classifying group laws and homotopy types (continued)
10/7/08 John George Topological Aspects of Riemann Surfaces
10/14/08 John George Topological Aspects of Riemann Surfaces (continued)
10/21/08 Eriko Hironaka Alexander polynomials
Special date and time: 10/24/08 (2-3pm), Colloquium (3:35-4:35)
Stefano Vidussi Twisted Alexander polynomials and fibered 3-manifolds. (pdf)
10/28/08 Jamil Mortada Dehn-Nielsen Theorem
11/03/08 Cancelled
11/11/08 Holiday
11/18/08 Yuri Lebedev Building Riemann Surfaces out of Y-pieces and Q-pieces
11/25/08 Yuri Lebedev Building Riemann Surfaces out of Y-pieces and Q-pieces
12/2/08 David Valdivia Twisted Alexander polynomials