Spring 2025 Top Secret Student Topology Party Schedule

Hi! This is the top secret student topology party webpage. Please share this webpage with anyone who might be interested! Here's last term's webpage.

We meet on Fridays 2:30-4:30 in Fine Hall 801.

Date Speaker Topic References
February 07, 2025 Alison Splitting spheres for unlinked S2's in S4 [Tat]
February 14, 2025 Fiona Contact manifolds and symplectic manifolds
February 21, 2025 Gheehyun Unoriented link Floer homology
February 28, 2025 Evan The h-cobordism theorem
March 7, 2025 Lily The Schoenflies conjecture and Diff0(S1xS3) [Gab, Section 1]
March 21, 2025 Yuyuan Serre finiteness




References

[Tat] Alison Tatsuoka, Splitting spheres for unlinked S2's in S4

[Gab] David Gabai, 3-Spheres in the 4-Sphere and Pseudo-Isotopies of S1xS3