Spring Semester 2012
- January 19
- Michael Ching (Amherst College)
- Classifying Taylor Towers
- January 26
- Dan Ramras (New Mexico State University)
- Decomposition Complexity of Groups and Algebraic K-Theory
- February 2
- no seminar
- February 9
- no seminar
- February 16
- Mahdi Asgari (Oklahoma State University; Cornell University)
- Counting Cusp Forms
- February 23
- Brad Henry (Siena College)
- An Introduction to Contact Geometry
- March 1
- Brad Henry (Siena College)
- Legendrian Knot Theory
- March 8
- Catherine Pfaff (Bard College at Simon’s Rock)
- Constructing and Classifying Fully Irreducible Outer Automorphisms of Free Groups
- March 15
- no classes
- March 22
- Richard Goldstein
- Primitivity in Free Groups — Part 1
- March 29
- Richard Goldstein
- Primitivity in Free Groups — Part 2
- April 5
- no classes
- April 12
- Marco Varisco
- On Framed Manifolds and the Kervaire Invariant
- April 19
- no seminar
- April 26
- Arthur Lubovsky
- A Combinatorial Model for Affine Crystals
- May 3
- Steve Plotnick
- The Virtual Haken Conjecture — A Trip Through Three-Manifold Topology