Fall-Winter 2024 Heegaard Floer Homology Reading Group Schedule

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We meet on Mondays 9:00 - 10:50 in Fine Hall 1201.


Date Speaker Topic References
November 18, 2024 Josh Morse homology
4PM November 25, 2024 Alison A nice computation in Heegaard Floer homology Part 1 [OSz3, Section 8.1]
4PM December 02, 2024 Alison A nice computation in Heegaard Floer homology Part 2 [OSz3, Section 8.1]
December 06 (Friday), 2024 Evan Donaldson's diagonalizability theorem [OSz3, Section 9]
Ollie Donaldson's diagonalizability theorem (instantons) Thanks for a great impromptu talk!
The reading seminar evolved into a discussion session and office hours.
December 12, 2024 Compactness, gluing, and stabilization invariance [Lip]
December 17 and 18, 2024 More compactness and gluing, and quasi-stabilization [Zem, Section 5]




References

[Lip] Robert Lipshitz, A cylindrical reformulation of Heegaard Floer homology (website)

[OSz1] Peter Ozsváth, Zoltán Szabó, Holomorphic disks and topological invariants for closed three-manifolds

[OSz2] Peter Ozsváth, Zoltán Szabó, Holomorphic disks and three-manifolds invariants: Properties and applications

[OSz3] Peter Ozsváth, Zoltán Szabó, Absolutely graded Floer homologies and intersection forms for four-manifolds with boundary

[Zem] Ian Zemke, Quasistabilization and basepoint moving maps in link Floer homology