## Seminars and Colloquia by Series

Series: PDE Seminar
Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - 15:00 , Location: Skiles 005 , Prof. Shigeaki Koike , Tohoku University, Japan , Organizer: Ronghua Pan
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Monday, November 12, 2018 - 14:00 , Location: Skiles 006 , Tom Bachmann , MIT , Organizer: Kirsten Wickelgren
Monday, November 12, 2018 - 13:55 , Location: Skiles 005 , Prof. Xiaoliang Wan , Louisiana State University , Organizer: Molei Tao
Friday, November 9, 2018 - 15:00 , Location: Skiles 005 , , Microsoft Research Redmond , Organizer: Lutz Warnke
Thursday, November 8, 2018 - 15:05 , Location: Skiles 006 , Galyna Livshyts , School of Mathematics, GaTech , Organizer: Christian Houdre
Wednesday, November 7, 2018 - 12:52 , Location: Skiles 006 , Wenjing Liao , Georgia Tech , , Organizer: Galyna Livshyts
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Wednesday, November 7, 2018 - 12:20 , Location: Skiles 005 , Federico Bonetto , Georgia Tech , Organizer: Trevor Gunn
Wednesday, November 7, 2018 - 10:14 , Location: Skiles 005 , Kelly Bickel , Bucknell University , Organizer: Shahaf Nitzan
Monday, November 5, 2018 - 14:00 , Location: Skiles 006 , Min Hoon Kim , Korea Institute for Advanced Study , Organizer: Jennifer Hom
The still open topological 4-dimensional surgery conjecture is equivalent to the statement that all good boundary links are freely slice. In this talk, I will show that every good boundary link with a pair of derivative links on a Seifert surface satisfying a homotopically trivial plus assumption is freely slice. This subsumes all previously known methods for freely slicing good boundary links with two or more components, and provides new freely slice links. This is joint work with Jae Choon Cha and Mark Powell.
Monday, November 5, 2018 - 13:00 , Location: Skiles 006 , Min Hoon Kim , Korea Institute for Advanced Study , Organizer: Jennifer Hom
In 1982, by using his celebrated disk embedding theorem, Freedman classified simply connected topological 4-manifolds up to homeomorphism. The disk embedding conjecture says that the disk embedding theorem holds for general 4-manifolds with arbitrary fundamental groups. The conjecture is a central open question in 4-manifold topology. In this introductory survey talk, I will briefly discuss Freedman's disk embedding conjecture and some related conjectures (the topological 4-dimensional surgery conjecture and the s-cobordism conjecture). I will also explain why the disk embedding conjecture implies that all good boundary links are freely slice.