Seminars are held on Thursdays at 3:30pm in 420 Mathematical Sciences, unless otherwise indicated.

Thu 25 Jan Bus Jaco Blow-ups of Ideal Triangulations, Part I: Crushing triangulations along a normal surface
Wed 31 Jan
(5pm Room 445)
Sangbum Cho
(joint seminar with OU here)
Disk complexes and tunnel number 1 knots
Thu 1 Feb Bus Jaco Blow-ups of Ideal Triangulations, Part I (continued)
Thu 8 Feb Bus Jaco Blow-ups of Ideal Triangulations, Part II: The blow-up construction
Wed 21 Feb Yo'av Rieck On the Heegaard genus of knot exteriors
Wed 28 Feb Joseph Maher
(Joint seminar with OU there)
Linear progress in the complex of curves
Thu 8 Mar Stephan Tillmann The Thurston norm via normal surfaces
Thu 15 Mar Saul Schleimer The boundary of the curve complex
Thu 5 Apr Walter Neumann Coarse classification of 3-manifolds
Wed 11 Apr Max Forester Density of the isoperimetric spectra
Tue 24 Apr Bus Jaco Planar surfaces in knot and link manifolds

Old seminars: Fall 2006