student geometry seminar

schedule of past lectures


Past Schedule Since Fall 2024

Spring 2024 Schedule

In Spring 2024, the student geometry seminar meets on Fridays, 2:00 - 2:50 PM, in Harris Hall 4145 (unless otherwise noted).

  • Jan 26: Organizational meeting at tea time

  • Feb 2: Sam Bevins: Lie algebras

  • Feb 9: John Carney: 2-Adjacent Knots: All that We Wish We Knew About Them

  • Feb 23: Roberto Estrada: Braid games

  • Mar 3: Everett Meike (grad student at NCSU)

  • Mar 15: John Carney: Vassiliev invariants

Spring 2023 Schedule

This semester we will alternate between two times: Thursdays 1-2pm and Fridays 11-12 am, and according to the schedule below.

  • Friday, Jan 20: Organizational

  • Thursday, Feb 2: Sam Bevins: Hypergraphs and Lie algebras + infinity

  • Friday, Feb 10: John Carney: Smooth four-genus

  • Thursday, Feb 16: Jeff Buffkin: Complex analysis topics

  • Friday, Feb 24: Anna Shaw: Chord diagrams

  • Thursday, Mar 2: Jeff Buffkin: Complex analysis continued

  • Friday, Mar 17: Brent Cody: Cech cohomology of derived topologies on ordinals

  • Thursday, Apr 6: D’Angelo Holder: Complex analysis topics continued

  • Friday, Apr 14: Allison Moore: Intro to knot Floer homology 1

  • Thursday, Apr 20: Allison Moore: Intro to knot Floer homology 2

Fall 2022 Schedule

  • Aug 26: Organizational

  • Sep 2: Marco Aldi: overview of linking number and Kontsevich integral

  • Sep 9: Sam Bevins: Hypergraphs and Lie algebras

  • Sep 16: Sam Bevins (Lie algebras continued) and John Carney (Alexander polynomial: original formulation): at 11am in HH 4145

  • Sep 23: John Carney (Alexander polynomial continued)

  • Sep 30: Eric Evans (Heisenberg Lie algebra)

  • Oct 7: Eric Evans (Heisenberg Lie algebra continued) and Anna Shaw (Vassiliev invariants): at 3pm in HH 4145

  • Oct 14: Anna Shaw (Vassiliev invariants continued): at 11am in HH 4145

  • Oct 28: Madeline Boyes (Homotopy)

  • Nov 4: Allison Moore (What is homology)

  • Nov 11: Sam Bevins (Lie algebra cohomology)

  • Nov 18: Jeff Buffkin (Lie Algebra cocycles and extensions): at 11am in HH 4145

  • Dec 2: John Carney (Fundamental group)

  • Dec 9: Eric Evans