Geometry and Topology Seminar : Department of Mathematics and Statistics : UMass Amherst

Date	Speaker	Title
Fri. 2/2	Organizational meeting	Organizational meeting
Fri. 2/9	İnanç Baykur UMass Amherst	Dichotomies in four-dimensional topology
Fri. 2/16	Yu-Shen Lin Boston University	On the special Lagrangian spheres near adiabatic limits
Fri. 3/1	Bülent Tosun IAS / U Alabama	Fillability of contact surgeries
Fri. 3/22		No talk due to Spring Break
Fri. 4/5	Olga Plamenevskaya Stony Brook	GTS pre-talk
Fri. 4/5	Olga Plamenevskaya Stony Brook	Links of surface singularities and their fillings
Fri. 4/12	Connor Malin Notre Dame	Generalizing a result of Cohen on the homology of configuration spaces
Fri. 5/3	Jun Li U Dayton	Symplectic mapping class groups of rational 4-manifolds

Date	Speaker	Title
Fri. 9/15	Organizational meeting	Organizational meeting
Fri. 9/29	Miriam Kuzbary Amherst College	Asymptotic behavior of invariants of homology spheres
Fri. 10/6	Jin-Cheng Guu UMass Amherst	Crane-Yetter Model and Applications
Fri. 10/13	Hokuto Konno MIT / University of Tokyo	Exotic Dehn twists on 4-manifolds
Fri. 10/20	Gage Martin Harvard	Annular links, double branched covers, and annular Khovanov homology
Fri. 10/27	Weimin Chen UMass Amherst	What is the maximal number of disjoint (-2)-spheres in CP^2 blown up N times?
Fri. 11/3	Richard Schwartz Brown	The optimal paper Moebius band
Fri. 11/10	Leon Liu Harvard	Stratifying phases of matters
Fri. 11/17	Yang Li MIT	Calabi-Yau metrics in the intermediate complex structure limit
Fri. 11/24	No seminar due to Thanksgiving	No seminar due to Thanksgiving
Fri. 12/1	Tam Cheetham-West Yale	Finite quotients in low-dimensional geometry