Geometric Topology Research Focus Group, 2002-2003.

This will be the main site for coordinating the Geometric Topology Research Focus Group activities in 2002-2003.

UC Davis Participants (2002-2003) include:

Faculty: Bowen, Endelman, Fuchs, Hass, Khovanov, Kim, Kuperberg, Matveyev, Mulase, Thompson, Thurston
Graduate Students: Allard, Ballinger, Barchechat, Breslin, Burnett, Bynum, Cuarenta, Dybdahl, Eberharter, Fawcett, Johnson, Lee, Kai, Kim, Lai, Nakamura, Pack Patel, Pitman, Puri, Safnuk, Suh, Walsh, Wang
Undergraduate Students: Hodge, Klingenberg, Taylor, Zhu

All are welcome to participate. Please email us a note if you want to be added to (or removed from) our email and participant list.

Schedule of events

Summer, 2002:

July 2nd, 10 AM

Undergraduate research - organizing meeting in 680 Kerr Hall.

Fall 2002:

Mon. 12:40 - 1:30 PM

Weekly Geometry/Topology Background Seminar.

Tuedays, 12:10, 593 Kerr?

Student run reading seminar - 3-manifold topology*

Wed. 4:10 - 5 PM

Weekly Geometry/Topology Seminar.

Tues. 10/15/2002, 1:30 PM

Fall Bay Area Topology Seminar in Berkeley.

Mon. 12:40 - 1:30 PM

Weekly Geometry/Topology Background Seminar.

Thursdays, 12:10, 593 Kerr

Reading seminar - Geometric and hyperbolic topology

*This seminar is student run. Topics are prime and toral decomposition theorems, more on Seifert manifolds, torus bundles and semibundles, and loop and sphere theorem and Dehn's lemma. For more information click on: Student Reading Seminar.
Notes available at Allen Hatcher's web site: Notes

A good collection of problems in low dimensional topology can be found at Rob Kirby's web page. Download the pdf file "Problems in Low-Dimensional Topology (380 pages)".

MSRI has a version of Thurston's notes .

Winter 2003:

Date T.B.A.

Winter Bay Area Topology Seminar in Stanford

Spring 2003:

Date T.B.A.

Spring Bay Area Topology Seminar in Davis