Tonie Scroggin . You may visit this website for more information about the seminar. I had organised the previous iteration of the UCSB Topology Seminar in the 2024-2025 academic year, with Melody Molander .
I had previously organised the Greater Washington Topology Seminar in the academic year 2020-2021. The list of the speakers is below.
Speaker Date Title of the Talk Slides Louis H. Kauffman 2nd October, 2020 Trivalent Graphs and Virtual Links Charles Frohman 9th October, 2020 Coordinatizing isotopy classes of webs in surfaces Thang T. Q. Lê 16th October, 2020 Quantum trace map for SLn skein algebras of surfaces Pierrick Bousseau 23rd October, 2020 The skein algebra of the 4-punctured sphere from curve counting Slides Micah Chrisman 30th October, 2020 The virtual knot concordance group is not abelian Alex Chandler 6th November, 2020 Torsion in Thin Regions of Khovanov Homology Boštjan Gabrovšek 13th November, 2020 Bonded knots Razvan Gelca 20th November, 2020 Searching for Patterns in Skein Modules Helen Wong 11th December, 2020 The Roger-Yang Skein Algebra for Punctured Surfaces Mikhail Khovanov 5th February, 2021 Introduction to the Universal Construction Maciej Mroczkowski 5th March, 2021 Knots with cyclotomic Jones polynomials Victoria Lebed 12th March, 2021 Unexpected applications of homotopical algebra to knot theory Dirk Schütz 26th March, 2021 A Scanning Algorithm for Odd Khovanov Homology Peter Samuelson 2nd April, 2021 The Kauffman skein algebra of the torus Krzysztof Putyra 9th April, 2021 Unifying colored sl(2) link homology Slides Michał Jabłonowski 16th April, 2021 Triple-crossing diagrams of knots Nathan Geer 23rd April, 2021 Re-normalized Quantum Link Invariants Joseph Boninger 30th April, 2021 A Quantum invariant of Links in the Thickened Torus with Volume Conjecture Behavior William Goldman 7th May, 2021 Dynamics on character varieties and geometric structures Slides Wade Bloomquist 14th May, 2021 Stated Skein Modules of Marked 3-Manifolds Slides