Menu:
Notes from talks:
On this page you can find scanned notes from some talks I have given. These notes sometimes elide important details and should be used at your own risk.
Characteristic classes of surface bundles and related topics (3-8-10, 3-10-10)
Chern-Weil theory and Flat connections in Lie theory and gauge theory (2-22-10, 2-24-10)
Braid groups and cohomology: All lectures, Lecture 1 only, Lecture 2 only, Lecture 3 only (5-18-09, 5-20-09, 5-27-09)
Orbits of curves under the Torelli group and Johnson kernel (4-18-09)
Groups of mapping classes not realizable by diffeomorphisms (12-13-08, 2-10-09, 3-3-09, 3-13-09)