Low Dimensional Topology Seminar

All past talks

This is the list of all past talks grouped by semester.

Spring 2023

  • May 25
    11:00
    (San José State University)
    Kirby-Thompson Distance for Trisections of Knotted Surfaces
  • May 18
    11:00
    (UC Davis)
    On Newton polytopes of Legendrian knots.
  • May 11
    11:00
    (California State University)
    The Meridional Rank Conjecture via Wirtinger number and Coxeter quotients.
  • Apr 27
    11:00
    (UCDavis)
    Multisection diagrams with divides for Weinstein 4-manifolds
  • Apr 13
    11:00
    (CINC-UAEM)
    Imagine non-compact surfaces gridded
  • Mar 23
    11:00
    (FC-UNAM)
    On the Khovanov homology of alternating knots
  • Mar 9
    11:00
    (UG)
    Characteristic numbers of a representation.
  • Feb 23
    11:00
    (University of Warsaw)
    Khovanov and sl(N)-homology for periodic links
  • Feb 2
    11:00
    (UCDavis)
    Knots, Graphs and Surfaces

    • Fall 2022

  • Nov 24
    16:00
    (Monash University)
    The triangulation complexity of 3-manifolds
  • Sep 29
    11:00
    (IMUNAM-Cuernavaca)
    Fundamental Group of complex hipocicloides
  • Sep 8
    11:00
    (Georgia Tech)
    New advances in Legendrian knot theory
  • Aug 25
    17:00
    (Tohoku University)
    Doubly periodic entangled motifs from planar tilings
  • Aug 11
    11:00
    (The University of Texas at Austin)
    Fibered Simple Knots

    • Spring 2022

  • Jun 10
    12:00
    (Komazawa University)
    Forbidden minor multibranched surfaces and critical 2-complexes.
  • May 26
    11:00
    (IMATE Cuernavaca)
    Branched Coverings in the Category of Topological Spaces.
  • May 12
    11:00
    (UAEM)
    Minimal area of the spun trifoil knot
  • Apr 28
    11:00
    (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
    Seifert solids and tri-plane diagrams
  • Apr 7
    11:00
    (University of Iowa)
    Agol cycles of pseudo-Anosov 3-braids
  • Mar 24
    11:00
    (IMATE-Cuernavaca)
    Quandles to compute link group presentations
  • Mar 10
    11:00
    (UCDavis)
    Strong Haken via Sphere Complexes
  • Feb 24
    11:00
    (CIMAT - Guanajuato)
    Giroux Correspondence for contact structures and open books
  • Feb 10
    11:00
    (IMATE - Juriquilla)
    Knots with special properties

    • Fall 2021

  • Nov 18
    11:00
    (Universidad de Sevilla)
    Using trees to solve two problems involving braids
  • Nov 4
    11:00
    (University of Notre Dame)
    Four-manifolds as three-fold covers of $S^4$
  • Oct 21
    11:00
    (INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée)
    What is the width of a 3-dimensional manifold?

    • Spring 2021

  • May 27
    11:00
    (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)
    Colored knots and 3-manifolds - Part 2
  • Apr 30
    11:00
    (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)
    Colored knots and 3-manifolds
  • Apr 15
    11:00
    (Univeristy of Guanajuato)
    "String representation" of trivalent 2-stratifolds
  • Mar 25
    17:00
    (Komazawa University)
    Multibranched surfaces in 3-manifolds
  • Mar 11
    11:00
    (FC-UNAM)
    Knots, Bands, Integrals, and a little bit of DNA
  • Feb 26
    11:00
    (University of Miami)
    The splitting genus of Alexander split links
  • Feb 11
    11:00
    (Osaka City University)
    On alternating closed braids
  • Jan 22
    10:00
    (ISCP)
    Low-dimensional topology and non-Euclidean geometry in nature

    • Fall 2020

  • Dec 17
    11:00
    (University of Arkansas)
    Isotopy classes of relatively trisected 4-manifolds with boundary
  • Dec 3
    10:00
    (UTEP)
    Genus one hyperbolic knots in the 3-sphere and the Kakimizu complex
  • Nov 20
    10:00
    (NC State University)
    A landscape of knots: TDA and dimension reduction techniques in theoretical mathematics
  • Nov 19
    11:00
    (University of Notre Dame)
    Comparación de 4-géneros topológicos y suaves de nudos satélites.
  • Nov 5
    11:00
    (CIMAT)
    Rigidez topológica y geométrica de espacios de Alexandrov
  • Oct 22
    11:00
    (The University of Iowa)
    Generalizing classical knot invariants
  • Oct 8
    11:00
    (IMATE-Oxaca)
    Un polinomio tipo de Alexander para doodles.
  • Sep 24
    11:00
    (UNAM-UMSNH)
    La 3 variedad de 5-segmentos
  • Aug 27
    11:00
    (Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM)
    El problema de Eilenberg-Ganea para familias
  • Aug 13
    11:00
    (CIMAT)
    Una familia de nudos no casifibrados.

    • Spring 2020

  • Jun 18
    11:00
    (Durham University)
    Knotted Surfaces in 4-manifolds and Distances Between Them
  • Jun 4
    16:00
    (McGill)
    Sobre desigualdades isoperímetras para diagramas en grupos hiperbólicos
  • May 21
    16:00
    (CINC-UAEM)
    Acciones de grupos modulares en los cuaternios y variedades hiperbólicas de dimensiones bajas
  • Apr 23
    16:00
    (IPICYT)
    Studying the structure of RNA using graphs
  • Mar 26
    16:00
    (University of Iowa)
    Trisecciones de género mínimo
  • Mar 17
    11:00
    (Durham University)
    n-shake slice knots
  • Feb 27
    16:00
    (UG)
    Volumen de una representación
  • Feb 13
    16:00
    (IMATE UNAM)
    La conjetura de Neuwirth y los nudos (1,1)
  • Jan 30
    16:00
    (CIMAT)
    2-stratifolds, foams and beyond

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