We welcome all undergraduate/graduate students and faculty to attend topology seminar! Speaker: Rhea Palak Bakshi (University of California Santa Barbara) Title: The skein module of the connected sum of two copies of L(0,1) Abstract: Abstract: Skein modules were introduced by Jozef H. Przytycki, and independently by Vladmimor Turaev, as generalisations of the Jones, Kauffman bracket, […]
We especially welcome all undergraduates and graduate students to attend topology seminar! Speaker: Shane Rankin (University of California, Riverside) Title: Symplectic Hodge Theory on Lie Algebroids Abstract: Symplectic Hodge Theory was developed in the late 80s to answer a conjecture of Brylinksi. Since then it has been used to understand the gap between Symplectic and […]
We especially welcome all undergraduates and graduate students to attend topology seminar! Speaker: Morgan Weiler (University of California, Riverside) Title: Anchored symplectic embeddings and 2-parameter persistence Abstract: Symplectic geometry is a generalization of classical mechanics, in which position and momentum coordinates are paired. In two dimensions, symplectic geometry is equivalent to volume-preserving geometry, but in […]
We especially welcome all undergraduates and graduate students to attend topology seminar! Speaker: Carrie Frizzell (Scripps College) Title: A Primer on Tropical Geometry Abstract: Max-plus and min-plus semifields—coined tropical semifields—appeared in the 1970s in the work of the computer scientist Imre Simon. Since then, the field of tropical geometry has developed rapidly. In this talk, […]
The Claremont Topology Seminar, with funding from Pitzer College and the NSF, is pleased to sponsor the N+12th Southern California Topology Colloquium (SCTC). SCTC is a one-day conference primarily attended […]
We especially welcome all undergraduates and graduate students to attend topology seminar! Speaker: Iris Yoon (Wesleyan University) Title: Dowker duality, profunctors, and spectral sequences Abstract: I will present three short, new proofs of Dowker duality using various poset fiber lemmas. I will introduce modifications of joins and products of simplicial complexes called relational join and […]
No seminar this week due to Spring break!
We especially welcome all undergraduates and graduate students to attend topology seminar! Speaker: Reginald Anderson (Claremont McKenna College) Title: Kontsevich's Recursive Formula for Rational Plane Curves Abstract: Gromov-Witten theory was […]
We especially welcome all undergraduates and graduate students to attend topology seminar! Speaker: Scott Taylor (Colby College) Title: Genus 1 Bridge Number of Satellite Knots in Lens Spaces Abstract: In […]
We especially welcome all undergraduates and graduate students to attend topology seminar! Speaker: Sierra Knavel (Georgia Tech) Title: Betti Numbers and Indecomposability of Genus-2 Lefschetz Fibrations Abstract: Symplectic 4-manifolds, smooth […]
We especially welcome all undergraduates and graduate students to attend topology seminar! Speaker: Sam Nelson (Claremont McKenna College) Title: Virtual Biquandle Cocycle Quiver Representations Abstract: We construct a quiver representation […]
We especially welcome all undergraduates and graduate students to attend topology seminar! Speaker: David Bachman (Pitzer College) Title: Learning optimal knot projections Abstract: We use techniques from Reinforcement Learning to […]
