• Claremont Topology Seminar: Robert Bowden (HMC)

    Fletcher 110, Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Chebyshev Threadings in Skein Algebras for Punctured Surfaces Abstract: Skein algebras are algebras of links in a surface quotiented by diagram-based equivalence relations based on the Kauffman bracket. In […]

  • Claremont Topology Seminar: Reginald Anderson (CMC)

    Fletcher 110, Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Cellular resolutions of the diagonal and exceptional collections for toric Deligne-Mumford stacks Abstract: Beilinson gave a resolution of the diagonal for complex projective space which yields a strong, full exceptional […]

  • Claremont Topology Seminar: Reginald Anderson (CMC)

    Fletcher 110, Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Cellular resolutions of the diagonal and exceptional collections for toric Deligne-Mumford stacks (Continued) Abstract: Beilinson gave a resolution of the diagonal for complex projective space which yields a strong, full […]

  • Claremont Topology Seminar: Julian Chaidez (USC)

    Fletcher 110, Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Quantum 4-Manifold Invariants Via Trisections Abstract: I will describe a new family of potentially non-semisimple invariants for compact a 4-manifold whose boundary is equipped with an open book. The […]

  • Claremont Topology Seminar: Christopher Perez (Loyola University New Orleans)

    Fletcher 110, Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Towers and elementary embeddings in total relatively hyperbolic groups Abstract: In a remarkable series of papers, Zlil Sela classified the first-order theories of free groups and torsion-free hyperbolic groups […]

  • Claremont Topology Seminar: Wenyuan Li (USC)

    Fletcher 110, Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Generating families on Lagrangian cobordisms Abstract: An important question in contact topology is to understand Legendrian knots and their relations given by Lagrangian cobordisms. In the contact manifold T*M […]

  • Claremont Topology Seminar: Konstantinos Varvarezos (UCLA)

    Fletcher 110, Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Cosmetic Surgeries on Knots and Heegaard Floer Homology Abstract: A common method of constructing 3-manifolds is via Dehn surgery on knots. A pair of surgeries on a knot is […]

  • Claremont Topology Seminar: Hyunki Min (UCLA)

    Fletcher 110, Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Contact structures and the mapping class group of lens spaces Abstract: One important problem in contact topology is to classify contact structures on a given manifold. Around 20 years […]

  • Claremont Topology Seminar: Melody Molander (UCSB)

    Fletcher 110, Pitzer College 1050 N Mills Ave, Claremont, CA, United States

    Title: Skein Theory of Affine ADE Subfactor Planar Algebras Abstract: Subfactor planar algebras first were constructed by Vaughan Jones as a diagrammatic axiomatization of the standard invariant of a subfactor. […]