## Seminars and Colloquia by Series

### TBA by Yvon Verberne

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, January 25, 2021 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
ONLINE
Speaker
Yvon VerberneGeorgia Institute of Technology

### TBA by Ahmad Issa

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, January 18, 2021 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Speaker
Ahmad IssaUniversity of British Columbia

### Taut foliations and Dehn surgery along positive braid knots

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, November 30, 2020 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
online
Speaker
Siddhi KrishnaGeorgia Tech

The L-space conjecture has been in the news a lot lately. It predicts a surprising relationship between the algebraic, geometric, and Floer-homological properties of a 3--manifold Y. In particular, it predicts exactly which 3-manifolds admit a taut foliation". In this talk, I'll discuss some of my past and forthcoming work investigating these connections. In particular, I'll discuss a strategy for building taut foliations manifolds obtained by Dehn surgery along knots realized as closures of positive braids". As an application, I will show how taut foliations can be used to obstruct positivity for cable knots. All are welcome; no background in foliation or Floer homology theories will be assumed.

https://bccte.zoom.us/j/91883463721

Meeting ID: 918 8346 3721

### TBA by Ian Runnels

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, November 16, 2020 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Speaker
Ian RunnelsUniversity of Virginia

### A Combinatorial Description of the knot concordance invariant epsilon

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, November 9, 2020 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Speaker
Hakan DogaUniversity of Buffalo

Computing, understanding the behavior of concordance invariants obtained from knot Floer homology theories is quite central to the study of the concordance group and low-dimensional topology in general. In this talk, I will describe the method that allows us to compute the concordance invariant epsilon using combinatorial knot Floer homology and talk about some computational results. This is a joint work with S. Dey.

### Knots and Links in overtwisted contact structures

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, November 2, 2020 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
on line
Speaker
Rima ChatterjeeLSU

Please Note: Knots/links associated to overtwisted contact structures have been less explored. There are two types of knots/links in overtwisted contact manifolds, namely loose and non-loose. In this talk, I will start with an overview of these knots and then discuss some of my recent work involving these knots and links. Specifically, I will talk about a coarse classification result of loose, null-homologous Legendrian and transverse links . Next relating them with open book decompositions, I will show that coarse equivalence class of loose null-homologous Legendrian links has support genus zero. I will end with some interesting open questions.

### Embedding closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds in small volume hyperbolic 4-manifolds

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, October 26, 2020 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Michelle ChuUniversity of Illinois at Chicago

The smallest volume cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds, the figure-eight knot complement and its sister, contain many immersed but no embedded closed totally geodesic surfaces. In this talk we discuss the existence or lack thereof of codimension-1 closed embedded totally geodesic submanifolds in minimal volume cusped hyperbolic 4-manifolds. This talk is based on joint work with Alan Reid.

### Ribbon homology cobordism

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, October 19, 2020 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Speaker
Shea Vela VickLouisiana State University

A cobordism between 3-manifolds is ribbon if it is built from handles of index no greater than 2. Such cobordisms arise naturally from several different topological and geometric contexts. In this talk, we discuss these objects and present a few obstructions to their existence, from Thurston geometries, character varieties, and instanton and Heegaard Floer homologies. This is joint work with Aliakbar Daemi, Tye Lidman, and Mike Wong.

### A contact invariant from bordered Heegaard Floer homology

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, October 12, 2020 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/98031035804?pwd=NnBpTlhVS2lzVzFWTkYyTlloeWVuQT09
Speaker