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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 | Notes |
| April 11, 2025 | Alison | Kervaire's theorem | [Ker], [Sun], [MW] |
| April 18, 2025 | Handle calculus party 2 | ||
| April 25, 2025 | Handle calculus party 3 | ||
| May 2, 2025 | Fiona | Foliations on knot exteriors | [CC1], [CC2], [CC3] |
[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
[Ker] Michel Kervaire, Knot cobordism in codimension two
[Sun] Nathan Sunukjian, Surfaces in 4-manifolds: concordance, isotopy, and surgery
[MW] Francoise Michel, Claude Weber, Michel Kervaire work on knots in higher dimensions
[CC1] John Cantwell, Lawrence Conlon, Depth of knots
[CC2] John Cantwell, Lawrence Conlon, Surgery and foliations of knot complements
[CC3] John Cantwell, Lawrence Conlon, Foliations of E(52) and related knot complements