## Seminars and Colloquia by Series

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
Series: PDE Seminar
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - 15:00 , Location: Skiles 006 , Assistant Professor , University of Minnesota , , Organizer: Xukai Yan
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.
Friday, November 2, 2018 - 15:00 , Location: Skiles 005 , , Louisiana State University , Organizer: Lutz Warnke
Thursday, November 1, 2018 - 15:05 , Location: Skiles 006 , Christian Houdré , Georgia Institute of Technology , Organizer: Christian Houdre
Wednesday, October 31, 2018 - 13:55 , Location: Skiles 005 , , UGA , , Organizer: Galyna Livshyts
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Wednesday, October 31, 2018 - 12:55 , Location: Skiles 006 , , UGA , , Organizer: Galyna Livshyts
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Wednesday, October 31, 2018 - 12:20 , Location: Skiles 005 , Haomin Zhou , Georgia Tech , Organizer: Trevor Gunn