Low-dimensional topology seminar

Organiser(s):

Daniel Galvin, Dan Hartman, Paula Truoel

Datum:

Don, 23/03/2023 - 11:00 - Mit, 28/01/2026 - 12:15

Location:

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Details:

Program [3] and Abstracts [4] of Low-dimensional topology seminar

Upcoming talks

Die, 15 Jul 2025

11:00 - 12:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Ivan Yakovlev

tba [5]

Die, 22 Jul 2025

11:00 - 12:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Rafael Torres

tba [6]

Past talks

For the abstracts click on the titles or see the list of abstracts [7].

Die, 20 Mai 2025

11:00 - 12:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Csaba Nagy

Classifying 8-dimensional E-manifolds [8]

Die, 06 Mai 2025

11:00 - 12:00

MPIM Seminar Room [9]

Paolo Salvatore

(LDT seminar) Kontsevich integrals and configuration spaces [10]

Die, 22 Apr 2025

11:00 - 12:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Inanc Baykur

Geometric simple connectivity in dimension four [11]

Die, 15 Apr 2025

11:00 - 12:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Neeti Gauniyal

Polyak-Viro type formulas for high-(co)dimensional smooth knots and links [12]

Die, 08 Apr 2025

11:00 - 12:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Tejas Kalelkar

Connecting essential triangulations [13]

Die, 01 Apr 2025

11:00 - 12:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Chen Zhang

d invariants obstruction to sliceness of a class of algebraically slice knots [14]

Die, 18 Mär 2025

11:00 - 12:30

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Stefan Behrens

CANCELLED/Stable homotopy in low dimensional topology [15]

Die, 17 Dez 2024

11:00 - 12:15

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Mark Powell

Smoothing codimension two submanifolds [16]

Mon, 16 Dez 2024

14:00 - 15:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Daniel Kasprowski

Stably exotic 4-manifolds and fillings [17]

Die, 26 Nov 2024

11:00 - 12:15

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Isacco Nonino

Classifying tight contact structures on a family of hyperbolic L-spaces [18]

Die, 19 Nov 2024

11:00 - 12:15

MPIM Seminar Room [9]

Aru Ray

Slicing knots in general 4-manifolds [19]

Die, 05 Nov 2024

11:00 - 12:15

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Alice Merz

The Alexander and Markov theorems for links with symmetries [20]

Don, 31 Okt 2024

12:15 - 13:15

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Marc Kegel

Characterizing and non-characterizing knots by 3-manifolds [21]

Die, 22 Okt 2024

11:00 - 12:15

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Léo Schelstraete

A novel approach to odd Khovanov homology [22]

Die, 15 Okt 2024

11:45 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Daniel Galvin

Pseudo-isotopy of 3-manifolds [23]

Die, 08 Okt 2024

11:45 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Daniel Hartman

Barbell diffeomorphisms and the Hatcher-Wagoner 2nd obstruction. [24]

Die, 01 Okt 2024

11:45 - 12:45

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Miguel Orbegozo Rodriguez

Murasugi sums and primeness of links [25]

Die, 24 Sep 2024

11:45 - 12:45

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Gary Guth

Bordered Perspectives on Exotic Phenomena in 4D [26]

Die, 17 Sep 2024

11:45 - 12:45

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Sungkyung Kang

Dehn twist along Brieskorn spheres along their positive definite fillings [27]

Die, 03 Sep 2024

11:45 - 12:45

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Mark Hughes

Double branched covers of 2-knots and $CP^2$ [28]

Die, 13 Aug 2024

11:45 - 12:45

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Stavros Garoufalidis

Multivariable polynomials of knots from Nichols algebras [29]

Die, 23 Jul 2024

12:15 - 13:15

MPIM Seminar Room [9]

Diego Santoro

Taut foliations from knot diagrams [30]

Die, 16 Jul 2024

11:45 - 12:45

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Patricia Sorya

Non-integral Dehn surgeries characterize composite knots [31]

Die, 02 Jul 2024

11:45 - 12:45

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Laura Marino

Gordian distance bounds from Khovanov homology [32]

Don, 27 Jun 2024

11:45 - 13:00

MPIM Seminar Room [9]

Lukas Lewark

Homogeneous braids are visually prime [33]

Die, 18 Jun 2024

11:45 - 12:45

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Stefano Riolo

Hyperbolic 4-manifolds of low volume [34]

Die, 11 Jun 2024

11:45 - 12:45

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Claudius Zibrowius

Khovanov homology and Conway mutation [35]

Die, 28 Mai 2024

11:45 - 12:45

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Álvaro del Pino

An introduction to Engel topology [36]

Die, 23 Apr 2024

11:45 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Inanc Baykur

A dichotomy in dimension four [37]

Die, 12 Mär 2024

11:45 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Hongyi Zhou

Computing Heegaard Floer homology [38]

Die, 05 Mär 2024

11:45 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Tanushree Shah

Tight contact structures on Seifert fibered 3-manifolds [39]

Mon, 04 Mär 2024

14:00 - 16:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Roberto Ladu

Crash course in differential topology, part II [40]

Fre, 23 Feb 2024

14:00 - 16:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Roberto Ladu

Crash course in differential topology, part I [41]

Die, 20 Feb 2024

11:45 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Rima Chatterjee

Contact surgery [42]

Die, 13 Feb 2024

11:45 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Fadi Mezher

Cobordism categories of manifolds with disc-presheaf structures [43]

Don, 25 Jan 2024

12:00 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Fraser Binns

Surgery Problems, Geography Problems and the L-space conjecture [44]

Die, 12 Dez 2023

17:00 - 18:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Kyle Hayden

Stably exotic surfaces and Khovanov homology [45]

12:00 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Benjamin Bode

T-homogeneous braids and braided open books [46]

Die, 05 Dez 2023

12:00 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Paula Truöl

Strongly quasipositive knots are concordant to infinitely many strongly quasipositive knots [47]

Die, 28 Nov 2023

12:00 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Daniel Galvin

The Casson-Sullivan invariant for self-homeomorphisms of 4-manifolds [48]

Die, 21 Nov 2023

12:00 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Roberto Ladu

Non-smoothable homeomorphisms of 4-manifolds with boundary [49]

Die, 14 Nov 2023

12:00 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Hugo Zhou

PL-surfaces in homology 4-balls [50]

Die, 07 Nov 2023

12:00 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Laura Wakelin

Characterising slopes for knots of hyperbolic type [51]

Don, 31 Aug 2023

12:00 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Alex Manchester

Satellite Constructions and Concordance [52]

Don, 17 Aug 2023

12:00 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Honghao Gao

Building Lagrangian fillings [53]

Don, 10 Aug 2023

12:00 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Daniel Kasprowski

The double star construction [54]

Don, 03 Aug 2023

12:00 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Patrick Orson

Unknotting nonorientable surfaces topologically [55]

Don, 13 Jul 2023

12:00 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Jeff Brock

Geometry, topology, and effective rigidity of hyperbolic 3-manifolds [56]

Don, 06 Jul 2023

12:00 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Andrew Lobb

Squeezed knots [57]

Don, 15 Jun 2023

12:00 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Fan Ye

SU(2) representations of small Dehn surgeries on knots [58]