Seminars and Colloquia
Complete Calendar of Brandeis Mathematics Seminars.
Seminars in the next 10 days
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
1:40 pm - 3:00 pm
Goldsmith 226
The topology seminar for the fall will discuss the potential use of invariants from knot theory in detecting counterexamples to the 4-dimensional Poincare conjecture. The idea originates in a recent preprint of Freedman, Gompf, Morrison, and Walker that certain homotopy 4-spheres would be shown to have exotic structures by computing the so-called Rasmussen s-invariant from Khovanov homology. There are several interesting subjects involved: most notably Khovanov homology and 4-dimensional handlebody theory (and other constructions in 4-manifold theory). Not much background will be assumed; this is a nice opportunity to learn some mathematics from an active and interesting area. -
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Goldsmith 226
The topology seminar for the fall will discuss the potential use of invariants from knot theory in detecting counterexamples to the 4-dimensional Poincare conjecture. The idea originates in a recent preprint of Freedman, Gompf, Morrison, and Walker that certain homotopy 4-spheres would be shown to have exotic structures by computing the so-called Rasmussen s-invariant from Khovanov homology. There are several interesting subjects involved: most notably Khovanov homology and 4-dimensional handlebody theory (and other constructions in 4-manifold theory). Not much background will be assumed; this is a nice opportunity to learn some mathematics from an active and interesting area. -
Thursday, December 03, 2009
2:10 pm - 3:00 pm
Goldsmith 317
A series of weekly lectures by faculty members or visitors of Brandeis Mathematics Department aimed at introducing various research areas of mathematics to graduate students and all interested parties. Schedule and Abstracts
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