ISTANBUL GEOMETRY & TOPOLOGY SEMINARS

 

 

FALL 2011

 

 

TIME

 

PLACE

 

TALK

 

 

11 October 2011

Tuesday

 

10:00 – 11:30

 

 

 

Koc University

 

ENG B16

 

Ali Göktürk

Koc University

Elements of Hyperbolic Geometry I

 

18 October 2011

Tuesday

 

10:00 – 11:30

 

 

 

Koc University

 

ENG B16

 

Ali Göktürk

Koc University

Elements of Hyperbolic Geometry II

 

25 October 2011

Tuesday

 

10:00 – 11:30

 

 

 

Koc University

 

ENG B16

 

Richard Gonzales

Bogazici University

Equivariant cohomology of rationally smooth embeddings

 

1 November 2011

Tuesday

 

10:00 – 11:30

 

 

Koc University

 

ENG B15

 

Ali Göktürk

Koc University

Hyperbolic Geometry III

 

15 November 2011

Tuesday

 

10:00 – 11:30

 

 

Koc University

 

ENG B16

 

Ali Göktürk

Koc University

Hyperbolic Geometry IV

 

Fatih Çelik

Koc University

TBA

 

22 November 2011

Tuesday

 

10:00 – 11:30

 

 

 

Koc University

 

ENG B16

 

İnanç Baykur

Max-Planck Institute - Bonn

Surface bundles and Lefschetz fibrations

 

29 November 2011

Tuesday

 

10:00 – 11:30

 

 

 

Koc University

 

ENG B16

 

Ali Göktürk

Koc University

Hyperbolic Geometry V

 

İlknur Eğilmez

Koc University

TBA

 

6 December 2011

Tuesday

 

10:00 – 11:30

 

 

Koc University

 

ENG B16

 

Ali Göktürk

Koc University

Hyperbolic Geometry VI

 

13 December 2011

Tuesday

 

10:00 – 11:30

 

 

Koc University

 

ENG B16

 

Öykü Yurttaş

Dicle University

TBA

 

20 December 2011

Tuesday

 

10:00 – 11:30

 

 

 

Koc University

 

ENG B16

 

Ali Göktürk

Koc University

Hyperbolic Geometry VII

 

Neslihan Güğümcü

Koc University

TBA

 

27 December 2011

Tuesday

 

9:30 – 11:15

 

 

 

Koc University

 

ENG B15

 

Ali Göktürk

Koc University

Hyperbolic Geometry VIII

 

Karatuğ Ozan Bircan

Koc University

TBA

 

 

 

 

SPRING 2011

 

 

TIME

 

PLACE

 

TALK

 

 

12 March 2011

Friday

 

13:00 – 14:30

 

 

 

Koc University

 

SCI Z17

 

Elif Medetoğulları

Bogazici University

On the tight contact structures on Seifert fibred 3-manifolds

 

19 March 2011

Friday

 

14:00 – 16:00

 

 

 

Koc University

 

SCI Z18

 

Elif Medetoğulları

Bogazici University

On the tight contact structures on Seifert fibred 3-manifolds

 

Workshop on Symplectic and Contact Topology

2 – 6 May 2011 

 

 

Lecture Series in Geometric Topology

16 – 19 May 2011

 

 

 

FALL 2010

 

 

TIME

 

PLACE

 

TALK

 

 

15 October 2010

Friday

 

13:00 – 14:30

 

 

 

Koc University

 

SCI 103

 

Ferit Öztürk

Bogazici University

Squeezing/Non-squeezing in Contact Geometry I:

3-dimensional Open Solid Tori

 

22 October 2010

Friday

 

13:00 – 14:30

 

 

 

Koc University

 

SCI 129

 

Ferit Öztürk

Bogazici University

Squeezing/Non-squeezing in Contact Geometry II:

3-dimensional Open Solid Tori

 

26 October 2010

Wednesday

 

12:30 – 13:30

 

 

Koc University

 

SOS Z23

 

Joe Johns

Max-Planck Institute - Leipzig

 

Lefschetz fibrations on cotangent bundles

 

 

26 November 2010

Friday

 

13:30 – 16:00

 

 

Istanbul Center for Mathematical Sciences

 

IMBM

 

Ferit Öztürk

 

Boğazici University

 

Squeezing/Non-squeezing in Contact Geometry III

 

 

Burak Özbağcı

 

Koç University

 

HF=HM

 

 

13 December 2010

Monday

 

15:30 – 17:00

 

 

 

 

IMBM

 

Burak Özbağcı

 

Koç University

 

HF=HM II

 

24 December 2010

Friday

 

13:00 – 14:30

 

 

 

Koc University

 

SCI 129

 

Ferit Öztürk

Bogazici University

Squeezing/Non-squeezing in Contact Geometry IV

 

 

SPRING 2009

 

 

Contact Topology Workshop

26 February – 6 March 2009

 

 

20 March 2009

Friday

 

14:00 – 17:00

 

 

Tolga Etgu

 

Heegard Floer Invariants of Legendrian Knots I

 

 

27 March 2009

Friday

 

14:00 – 17:00

 

Tolga Etgu

 

Heegard Floer Invariants of Legendrian Knots II

 

 

17 April 2009

Friday

 

14:00-17:00

 

Tolga Etgu

 

Heegard Floer Invariants of Legendrian Knots III

 

 

8 May 2009

Friday

 

14:00-17:00

 

Burak Ozbagci

 

On the Transverse Invariants for Bindings of Open Books

 

 

19 June 2009

Friday

 

14:00-17:00

 

Andy Wand

UC Berkeley

 

Nonpositive Open Book Decompositions of Stein Fillable 3-Manifolds

 

Sinem Onaran

METU – Georgia Tech

 

Invariants of Legendrian Knots from Open Book Decompositions

 

 

26 June 2009

Friday

 

14:00-17:00

SCI Z42

 

Yanki Lekili

MIT

 

Heegaard Floer homology of broken fibrations 

 

10 July 2009

Friday

 

14:00-17:00

 

Firat Arikan

University of Rochester

 

Contact Structures Associated To Four-Punctured Sphere

 

 

FALL 2008

 

 

19 September 2008 Friday

Mehmetcik Pamuk

 

Contact Manifolds

 

 

10 October 2008

Friday

Mehmetcik Pamuk

 

Convex Surface Theory

 

 

17 October 2008

Friday

Mehmetcik Pamuk

 

Elimination Lemma

 

 

 

31 October 2008

Friday

Nermin Salepci

13:00 – 14:30

 

Introduction to broken Lefschetz fibrations on 4-manifolds

Mehmetcik Pamuk

15:00 – 16:30

 

Dynamics of Morse-Smale

vector fields

 

 

 

7 November 2008

Friday

 

Nermin Salepci

13:00 – 14:30

 

Broken Lefschetz fibrations

on 4-manifolds II

Mehmetcik Pamuk

15:00 – 16:30

 

Elimination Lemma II

 

 

14 November 2008

Friday

 

Mehmetcik Pamuk

13:00 – 14:30

 

Elimination Lemma III

 

 

 

21 November 2008

Friday

 

 

Semra Pamuk

13:00 – 14:30

 

Periodic resolutions

for finite groups

Mehmetcik Pamuk

15:00 – 16:30

 

Overtwisted Contact Structures

 

 

28 November 2008

Friday

 

Nermin Salepci

12:45 – 14:00

 

Broken Lefschetz fibrations

on 4-manifolds III

Mehmetcik Pamuk

14:15 – 15:30

 

Genus Bounds

 

 

19 December 2008

Friday

 

Nermin Salepci

13:00 – 14:30

 

Broken Lefschetz fibrations

on 4-manifolds IV

Mehmetcik Pamuk

15:00 – 16:30

 

The Bennequin Inequality

 

 

26 December 2008

Friday

 

Nermin Salepci

13:00 – 14:30

 

Broken Lefschetz fibrations

on 4-manifolds V

Mehmetcik Pamuk

15:00 – 16:30

 

Invariants for Legendrian and transverse knots

 

9 January 2009

Friday

 

Semra Pamuk

13:00 – 14:30

 

Low Dimensional Cohomology and Group Extensions

Mehmetcik Pamuk

15:00 – 16:30

 

Martinet’s Construction