MPIM Topology Seminar, Montags 16:30 - 18:00
Fall 2018:
Sept. 24: New topologists at MPIM, 10 minute introductory talks.
15-16 and 16:30-18.
Oct. 1: Filip Misev
Positivity, fibering and concordance
Oct. 8: Noémie Combe
Weyl-Coxeter chambers and the configuration space of points in the plane
Oct. 15: Hannah Schwartz
Using 2-torsion to obstruct topological isotopy
Oct. 22: New topologists at MPIM, part II of the 10 minute introductory talks.
15-16 and 16:30-18.
Oct. 29: Thomas Heidersdorf: Quantum knot invariants and their categorification
15-16h: Matt Young: Chern-Simons theory as a TQFT
Nov. 5: Matt Young: Functorial properties of classical Chern-Simons theory
15-16h: Catharina Stroppel: From quantum invariants of knots to categorification
Nov. 12: Mark Penney: Modular tensor categories and 3D TQFTs
Nov. 19: Catharina Stroppel: From quantum invariants of knots to categorification, part 2
Nov. 26: Renaud Detcherry: Reshetikhin-Turaev TQFTs
Dec. 3: Alberto Cavallo
Dec. 10: Daniele Zuddas
Dec. 17: Danica Kosanovich
Summer 2018:
May 7: Peter Feller
Complex plane curves, their intersection with round spheres, and knot concordance
May 14: Jan Pulmann
Kontsevich integral with a non-even associator and cabling
May 28: Augusto Stoffel
Introduction to elliptic cohomology
June 4: Bertram Arnold
Construction of elliptic cohomology, following Jacob Lurie's recent papers
June 11: Chris Davis
Concordance genus and the solvable filtration
June 18: Paolo Aceto
Pretzel links, mutation, and the slice ribbon conjecture
June 25: JungHwan Park
Rational cobordism and integral homology
July 2: No talk
July 9: Antonio de Capua
Course Teichmüller geometry and train tracks
July 16: Peter Scholze
An informal THH session for topologists
July 23: Nitu Kitchloo
Quantization of the Modular Functor and equivariant elliptic cohomology
July 30: Rob Schneiderman
The lightbulb trick in general 4-manifolds
Spring 2018:
January 8: Ben Knudsen
Subdivisional spaces and graph braid groups
January 22: Aru Ray
Cabling and the solvable filtration of knot concordance
January 29: Lorant Szegedy
Topological field theory on r-spin surfaces and the Arf invariant
February 19: JungHwan Park
A ribbon obstruction and derivatives of knots
February 26: Paolo Aceto
Rational homology cobordisms of plumbed manifolds and arborescent link concordance
2017:
August 4: Danica Kosanovich
Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants of tangles and 3-manifolds
August 7: Rob Schneiderman and Peter Teichner
Kontsevich integral of string links, grope cobordism and Whitney towers
August 14: Eugene Rabinovich
The Path from Perturbative Chern-Simons Theory to Knot Invariants
August 21: Arumina Ray
Le-Murakami-Ohtsuki invariants of links and 3-manifolds
August 28: Peter Feller
Habiro’s integrality results for LMO-invariants
September 4: JungHwan Park
The Kontsevich integral revisited
September 11: Andrew Lobb
The Khovanov space and generalizations
September 18: Mark Powell
Surface systems of links and refined triple linking numbers
September 25: Danica Kosanovic
A categorical approach to universal knot invariants
October 2: Chris Davis
Knots in homology spheres and the solvable filtration
October 9: Yuqing Shi
Compactified configuration spaces and knot invariants
October 16: Peter Teichner
Goodwillie-Weiss calculus and Feynman diagrams
October 23: Chris Elliott
Topological Twists of Factorization Algebras
November 6: Achim Krause
Knot invariants from cosimplicial spaces of configurations
November 13: Hirzebruch Colloquium by Walter Neumann
Course Geometry
November 20: Peter Teichner
Feynman diagrams and a spectral sequence for the space of knots.
November 27: Min Hoon Kim
The bipolar filtration of topologically slice knots
December 4: Jae Choon Cha
Transfinite Milnor invariants of 3-manifolds
December 18: Matthias Nagel
Multivariable signatures, genus bounds, and 0.5-solvable cobordisms