Yongwu
Rong
Professor of Mathematics
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Math 289 Seminar - Spring 2007
During Spring 2007, I taught Math 289 -
Topics in topology. We covered various topics related to computational
complexities in topology and combinatorics.
Some of our
lectures will be talks by students and guest lecturers on various special topics.
We call these Math 289 Seminar. Unless stated
otherwise, all talks are Tuesday or Thursday 12:45 - 2 pm, at 1957 E Street, Room 311. The current schedule is as follows.
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Date
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Speaker
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Title
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March 22
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Ivan Dynnikov, Moscow State University
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Knot recognition algorithm and grid
diagrams
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March 27
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Yongwu Rong
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Geometrizations of 3-Manifolds (this is a pre-talk for Friday’s
colloquium talk by Huai-Dong Cao)
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April 3
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Radmila Sazdanovic
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3-Manifold KNOT GENUS is NP-complete (after
Agol-Hass-Thurston)
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April 10
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Kerry Luse
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Penrose polynomial and more
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April 12
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KunioMurasugi, University
of Toronto
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Twisted Alexander polynomial
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April 17
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YR (regular lecture)
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Classical and quantum gates
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April 19
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Isabel Darcy (University of Iowa)
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Modeling protein-DNA complexes using tangles.
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April 24
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Yongwu Rong
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Regular lecture (solution to TSP hw etc)
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April 26
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Ken Shoda
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Zeros of chromatic polynomial
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May 1
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Forest Fisher Hillary Einziger
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Multi-variable Tutte
polynomial Tensor
Products of Signed Graphs (after Diao-Hetyei-Hinson)
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May 4
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Fanny
Jasso-Hernandez Milena Pabiniak
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Chewing up Koszul complex, matrix factorization, and Khovanov-Rozansky homology
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May 4
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Maciej Niebrzydowski
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Quantum computation from topological viewpoint
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