Cosmetic Surgery reading group

This webpage is to maintain the schedule for the reading group organized by Boyu Zhang for the Spring 2019 semester. The format is weekly talks building up the necessary prerequisites starting from Heegard Floer homology in order to understand this paper by Ni and Wu.

Information

Meeting Time: Wednesdays 1:30-2:30
Meeting Place: Fine Hall 401

Schedule

Date Topic Speaker Notes References
13 Feb Heegard Floer Homology Jonathan Zung
20 Feb Surgery Exact Triangle William Ballinger
6 Mar Absolute gradings and the d-invariant William Ballinger
13 Mar Knot Floer Homology Maggie Miller [Manolescu]
27 Mar Large Surgery Formula Shruthi Sridhar [Oz-Sz] , [Manion]
3 Apr Integer Surgery Formula I Rohil Prasad [Oz-Sz]
10 Apr Integer Surgery Formula II Boyu Zhang
17 Apr Rational Surgery Formula Mohan Swaminathan
24 Apr
1 May Surgery obstructions and Heegaard Floer homology Francesco Lin [H-K-L]
8 May
15 May

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