Organizers: Weizhe Shen and Melissa Zhang
Meetings:
We will follow Manolescu's notes as a launchpad, skipping some portions and supplementing with other references.
Many thanks to Eleanor for collecting these additional resources:
| Date | Speaker | Topic (approximate) | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30 | Melissa | Intro to Heegaard Floer homology and applications; talk scheduling | Manolescu's notes, Sections 1, 2 |
| Oct 7 | Eleanor | HFK definition I: Heegaard diagram for knot complement, Floer chain complex, relative gradings | Manolescu's notes, Sections 3.1, 3.2
Eleanor's notes (note MZ's convention is for a disk to glue to the alpha torus on the first half of the boundary) |
| Oct 14 | Annette | HFK definition II: knot filtration, minus flavor | Manolescu's notes, Sections 3.3, 3.6 |
| Oct 21 | Eleanor | HFK definition III: minus and infinity flavors; Heegaard Floer homology for 3-manifolds | Eleanor's notes |
| Oct 28 | Stephen | Seifert surfaces, 3-ball genus, fibered knots | Rolfsen's Knots and Links |
| Nov 4 | Weizhe | TBD | |
| (Nov 11) | none | Veteran's Day, no seminar | |
| Nov 18 | Trevor / Eleanor | Dehn surgery, large surgery formula | |
| Nov 25 | Alex | Contact element, Legendrian and transverse invariants | |
| Dec 2 | TBD | TBD |