Seminars and Colloquia by Series

Fibrations, foliations and sutured manifolds

Series
Geometry Topology Working Seminar
Time
Friday, October 11, 2013 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
John Etnyre – Georgia Tech
In this talk we will extend the sutured product disk decompositions from the last talk to construct foliations on some knot complements and see how this can help understand the minimal genus of Seifert surfaces for knots and links.

Fibrations, foliations and sutured manifolds

Series
Geometry Topology Working Seminar
Time
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
John Etnyre – Georgia Tech
Gabai has a nice criteria for recognizing fibered knots in 3-manifolds. This criteria is best described in terms of sutured manifolds and simple sutured hierarchies. We will introduce this terminology and prove Gabai's result. Given time (or in subsequent talks) we might discuss generalizations concerning constructing foliations on knot compliments and 3-manifolds in general. Such results are very useful in understanding the minimal genus representatives of homology classes in the manifold (in particular, the minimal genus of a Seifert surface for a knot).

No Talk Today

Series
Geometry Topology Working Seminar
Time
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
None – None
No talk today. Ga Tech will be hosting a prospective graduate students day for undergraduates in the Georgia area.

James periodicity and the EHP sequence III

Series
Geometry Topology Working Seminar
Time
Friday, September 20, 2013 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Kirsten Wickelgren – Georgia Tech
Allowing formal desuspensions of maps and objects takes the category of topological spaces to the category of spectra, where cohomology is naturally represented. The EHP spectral sequence encodes how far one can desuspend maps between spheres. It's among the most useful tools for computing homotopy groups of spheres. RP^infty has a cell structure with a cell in each dimension and with attaching maps of degrees ...020202... Note that this sequence is periodic. In fact, it is more than the degrees of these maps which are periodic and a map of Snaith relates this periodicity to the EHP sequence.We will develop the EHP sequence, James periodicity and the relationship between the two.

James periodicity and the EHP sequence II

Series
Geometry Topology Working Seminar
Time
Friday, September 13, 2013 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Kirsten Wickelgren – Georgia Tech

Please Note: Note this is a 1 hour seminar (not the usual 2 hours).

Allowing formal desuspensions of maps and objects takes the category of topological spaces to the category of spectra, where cohomology is naturally represented. The EHP spectral sequence encodes how far one can desuspend maps between spheres. It's among the most useful tools for computing homotopy groups of spheres. RP^infty has a cell structure with a cell in each dimension and with attaching maps of degrees ...020202... Note that this sequence is periodic. In fact, it is more than the degrees of these maps which are periodic and a map of Snaith relates this periodicity to the EHP sequence.We will develop the EHP sequence, James periodicity and the relationship between the two.

James periodicity and the EHP sequence I

Series
Geometry Topology Working Seminar
Time
Friday, September 6, 2013 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Kirsten Wickelgren – Georgia Tech

Please Note: Note this is a 1 hour seminar (not the usual 2 hours).

Allowing formal desuspensions of maps and objects takes the category of topological spaces to the category of spectra, where cohomology is naturally represented. The EHP spectral sequence encodes how far one can desuspend maps between spheres. It's among the most useful tools for computing homotopy groups of spheres. RP^infty has a cell structure with a cell in each dimension and with attaching maps of degrees ...020202... Note that this sequence is periodic. In fact, it is more than the degrees of these maps which are periodic and a map of Snaith relates this periodicity to the EHP sequence.We will develop the EHP sequence, James periodicity and the relationship between the two.

Conormals and contact homology X

Series
Geometry Topology Working Seminar
Time
Friday, April 26, 2013 - 11:30 for 1.5 hours (actually 80 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
John Etnyre – Georgia Tech
In this series of talks I will begin by discussing the idea of studying smooth manifolds and their submanifolds using the symplectic (and contact) geometry of their cotangent bundles. I will then discuss Legendrian contact homology, a powerful invariant of Legendrian submanifolds of contact manifolds. After discussing the theory of contact homology, examples and useful computational techniques, I will combine this with the conormal discussion to define Knot Contact Homology and discuss its many wonders properties and conjectures concerning its connection to other invariants of knots in S^3.

Conormals and contact homology IX

Series
Geometry Topology Working Seminar
Time
Friday, April 19, 2013 - 12:05 for 1.5 hours (actually 80 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
John Etnyre – Georgia Tech
In this series of talks I will begin by discussing the idea of studying smooth manifolds and their submanifolds using the symplectic (and contact) geometry of their cotangent bundles. I will then discuss Legendrian contact homology, a powerful invariant of Legendrian submanifolds of contact manifolds. After discussing the theory of contact homology, examples and useful computational techniques, I will combine this with the conormal discussion to define Knot Contact Homology and discuss its many wonders properties and conjectures concerning its connection to other invariants of knots in S^3.

Conormals and contact homology VIII

Series
Geometry Topology Working Seminar
Time
Friday, April 5, 2013 - 11:30 for 1.5 hours (actually 80 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
John Etnyre – Georgia Tech
In this series of talks I will begin by discussing the idea of studying smooth manifolds and their submanifolds using the symplectic (and contact) geometry of their cotangent bundles. I will then discuss Legendrian contact homology, a powerful invariant of Legendrian submanifolds of contact manifolds. After discussing the theory of contact homology, examples and useful computational techniques, I will combine this with the conormal discussion to define Knot Contact Homology and discuss its many wonders properties and conjectures concerning its connection to other invariants of knots in S^3.

Conormals and contact homology VII

Series
Geometry Topology Working Seminar
Time
Friday, March 1, 2013 - 11:30 for 1.5 hours (actually 80 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
John Etnyre – Ga Tech
In this series of talks I will begin by discussing the idea of studying smooth manifolds and their submanifolds using the symplectic (and contact) geometry of their cotangent bundles. I will then discuss Legendrian contact homology, a powerful invariant of Legendrian submanifolds of contact manifolds. After discussing the theory of contact homology, examples and useful computational techniques, I will combine this with the conormal discussion to define Knot Contact Homology and discuss its many wonders properties and conjectures concerning its connection to other invariants of knots in S^3.

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