Stanford University Topology Seminar 2011


All talks held 4-5pm in 383-N unless otherwise noted.

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Spring Quarter:

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012, 4:15pm: Peter Teichner (Max Planck / Berkeley), Whitney towers in the 4–ball, in 380-F; note special ROOM and TIME

Monday, April 9th, 2012, 3:30pm: Steffen Rohde (U Washington), Geometry and Topology seminar, in room 460-301; note special ROOM, DAY, and TIME

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012: Ian Agol (Berkeley), The virtual Haken conjecture. Pre-talk 2:30p–3:30p covering background and details, seminar 4:00p–5:00p (both in 383-N).

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012: no seminar (Kiran Kedlaya speaks in Algebraic Geometry Seminar)

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012: John Pardon (Stanford), Totally disconnected groups (not) acting on 3-manifolds

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012: Matt Baker (Berkeley / Georgia Tech), Linear series on metrized complexes of algebraic curves

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012: Thomas Koberda (Harvard), Mapping class groups, homology and finite covers of surfaces

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012: no seminar

Monday, May 21st, 2012, 4:15pm: Scott Morrison (Berkeley), joint with RT+QA seminar, in 380-D; note special ROOM, DAY and TIME

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012: Somnath Basu (Binghamton), Transversal string topology and applications

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012: Anna Weinhard (Princeton)

Friday, June 1st, 2012, 3pm: John Lind (Johns Hopkins); note special DAY and TIME

Saturday, June 2nd, 2012: Bay Area Differential Geometry Seminar (all day)

Tuesday, June 5th, 2012: