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 Seminar Room [6]

Rafael Torres

tba [7]

Past talks

For the abstracts click on the titles or see the list of abstracts [8].

Die, 01 Jul 2025

11:00 - 12:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Eduardo Fernandez

(LDT seminar) Non-flexible loops of loose Legendrians in 3 dimensions [9]

Die, 17 Jun 2025

11:00 - 12:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Robert Schneiderman

Linking of 2-spheres in 4-space [10]

Die, 10 Jun 2025

11:00 - 12:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Simona Veselá

Obstruction theory for the existence of 4-dimensional $\xi$-fillings of 3-manifolds [11]

Die, 20 Mai 2025

11:00 - 12:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Csaba Nagy

Classifying 8-dimensional E-manifolds [12]

Die, 06 Mai 2025

11:00 - 12:00

MPIM Seminar Room [6]

Paolo Salvatore

(LDT seminar) Kontsevich integrals and configuration spaces [13]

Die, 22 Apr 2025

11:00 - 12:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Inanc Baykur

Geometric simple connectivity in dimension four [14]

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 [15]

Die, 08 Apr 2025

11:00 - 12:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Tejas Kalelkar

Connecting essential triangulations [16]

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 [17]

Die, 18 Mär 2025

11:00 - 12:30

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Stefan Behrens

CANCELLED/Stable homotopy in low dimensional topology [18]

Die, 17 Dez 2024

11:00 - 12:15

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Mark Powell

Smoothing codimension two submanifolds [19]

Mon, 16 Dez 2024

14:00 - 15:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Daniel Kasprowski

Stably exotic 4-manifolds and fillings [20]

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 [21]

Die, 19 Nov 2024

11:00 - 12:15

MPIM Seminar Room [6]

Aru Ray

Slicing knots in general 4-manifolds [22]

Die, 05 Nov 2024

11:00 - 12:15

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Alice Merz

The Alexander and Markov theorems for links with symmetries [23]

Don, 31 Okt 2024

12:15 - 13:15

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Marc Kegel

Characterizing and non-characterizing knots by 3-manifolds [24]

Die, 22 Okt 2024

11:00 - 12:15

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Léo Schelstraete

A novel approach to odd Khovanov homology [25]

Die, 15 Okt 2024

11:45 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Daniel Galvin

Pseudo-isotopy of 3-manifolds [26]

Die, 08 Okt 2024

11:45 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Daniel Hartman

Barbell diffeomorphisms and the Hatcher-Wagoner 2nd obstruction. [27]

Die, 01 Okt 2024

11:45 - 12:45

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Miguel Orbegozo Rodriguez

Murasugi sums and primeness of links [28]

Die, 24 Sep 2024

11:45 - 12:45

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Gary Guth

Bordered Perspectives on Exotic Phenomena in 4D [29]

Die, 17 Sep 2024

11:45 - 12:45

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Sungkyung Kang

Dehn twist along Brieskorn spheres along their positive definite fillings [30]

Die, 03 Sep 2024

11:45 - 12:45

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Mark Hughes

Double branched covers of 2-knots and $CP^2$ [31]

Die, 13 Aug 2024

11:45 - 12:45

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Stavros Garoufalidis

Multivariable polynomials of knots from Nichols algebras [32]

Die, 23 Jul 2024

12:15 - 13:15

MPIM Seminar Room [6]

Diego Santoro

Taut foliations from knot diagrams [33]

Die, 16 Jul 2024

11:45 - 12:45

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Patricia Sorya

Non-integral Dehn surgeries characterize composite knots [34]

Die, 02 Jul 2024

11:45 - 12:45

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Laura Marino

Gordian distance bounds from Khovanov homology [35]

Don, 27 Jun 2024

11:45 - 13:00

MPIM Seminar Room [6]

Lukas Lewark

Homogeneous braids are visually prime [36]

Die, 18 Jun 2024

11:45 - 12:45

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Stefano Riolo

Hyperbolic 4-manifolds of low volume [37]

Die, 11 Jun 2024

11:45 - 12:45

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Claudius Zibrowius

Khovanov homology and Conway mutation [38]

Die, 28 Mai 2024

11:45 - 12:45

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Álvaro del Pino

An introduction to Engel topology [39]

Die, 23 Apr 2024

11:45 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Inanc Baykur

A dichotomy in dimension four [40]

Die, 12 Mär 2024

11:45 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Hongyi Zhou

Computing Heegaard Floer homology [41]

Die, 05 Mär 2024

11:45 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Tanushree Shah

Tight contact structures on Seifert fibered 3-manifolds [42]

Mon, 04 Mär 2024

14:00 - 16:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Roberto Ladu

Crash course in differential topology, part II [43]

Fre, 23 Feb 2024

14:00 - 16:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Roberto Ladu

Crash course in differential topology, part I [44]

Die, 20 Feb 2024

11:45 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Rima Chatterjee

Contact surgery [45]

Die, 13 Feb 2024

11:45 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Fadi Mezher

Cobordism categories of manifolds with disc-presheaf structures [46]

Don, 25 Jan 2024

12:00 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Fraser Binns

Surgery Problems, Geography Problems and the L-space conjecture [47]

Die, 12 Dez 2023

17:00 - 18:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Kyle Hayden

Stably exotic surfaces and Khovanov homology [48]

12:00 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Benjamin Bode

T-homogeneous braids and braided open books [49]

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 [50]

Die, 28 Nov 2023

12:00 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Daniel Galvin

The Casson-Sullivan invariant for self-homeomorphisms of 4-manifolds [51]

Die, 21 Nov 2023

12:00 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Roberto Ladu

Non-smoothable homeomorphisms of 4-manifolds with boundary [52]

Die, 14 Nov 2023

12:00 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Hugo Zhou

PL-surfaces in homology 4-balls [53]

Die, 07 Nov 2023

12:00 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Laura Wakelin

Characterising slopes for knots of hyperbolic type [54]

Don, 31 Aug 2023

12:00 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Alex Manchester

Satellite Constructions and Concordance [55]

Don, 17 Aug 2023

12:00 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Honghao Gao

Building Lagrangian fillings [56]

Don, 10 Aug 2023

12:00 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Daniel Kasprowski

The double star construction [57]

Don, 03 Aug 2023

12:00 - 13:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Patrick Orson

Unknotting nonorientable surfaces topologically [58]