Fall 2025 Topology Reading Group

We meet on Tuesdays 3:30-4:30 in Fine Hall 801. This term's topic is new constructions of closed 4-manifolds.

Date Speaker Topic References
November 04, 2025 Evan Constructing exotic manifolds handle by handle [LLP, Section 3]
November 11, 2025 Jessica Background on Heegaard Floer homology [LLP, Sections 2 and 4.1]
November 18, 2025 Gheehyun Distinguishing closed exotic 4-manifolds using Heegaard Floer homology [LLP, Sections 2 and 5.1]
November 25, 2025 No talk
December 02, 2025 Evan TBD
December 09, 2025 Gheehyun TBD
December 16, 2025 TBD TBD




References

[LLP] Adam Levine, Tye Lidman, Lisa Piccirillo, New constructions and invariants of closed exotic 4-manifolds

[LP] Tye Lidman, Lisa Piccirillo, Distinguishing closed 4-manifolds by slicing





















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