MAT 477, Seminar in Mathematics, Winter 2024

Instructor

Kasra Rafi
Office: BA 6236 (Bahen Centre)
Email: rafi@math.toronto.edu

Meetings

Tuesdays 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Thursdays 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Location: BF 323

Office Hours

Tuesdays 2 pm -- 3 pm
Thursdays 4 pm -- 5 pm or by appointment.

Course Description

The purpose of this course is to practice learning math by reading books and paper and giving presentations On the material you have learned. The topics will be centred around the Geometry and Topology of 3-manifolds.


Here are some references:

  1. Background material.
  2. Topological aspects.
  3. Geometric aspects.

Schedule of Presentations

Date Speaker Title
January 16 Yunong Li The Fundamental Group
January 16, 18 Summer Sun Introduction to Hyperbolic Geometry
January 23 Rishibh Prakash Dodecahedral Manifolds
January 23, 25 Marcello Ghini Bettiol Triangulations of Manifolds
January 30 Alexander Patric Ko Introduction to Mapping Class Group
February 1 Cesar Colmenero The Prime Decomposition
February 6 Cesar Colmenero The Prime Decomposition
February 6 Luke McCutcheon Introduction to Knot Theorey
February 8 Luke McCutcheon Introduction to Knot Theorey
February 13 Kai Qi Hao Group Actions on Hyperbolic Manifolds
February 15, 27 Daniel Dema Tessellations and Fundamental Domains
February 27 Antonio Sato Inversive Models
February 29 Michael Li Homology of 3-manifolds
March 5, 12 Dev Chauhan An introduction to orbifolds
March 12, 14 Summer Sun Cusped 3-manifolds
March 14, 19 Cesar Colmenero Lens spaces
March 19 Hongbo Wang Seifert Fibered Surfaces
March 21 Daniel Dema Lie Groups and the Universal Cover of SL(2, R)
March 26 Kai Qi Hao The Sol geometry
March 26 Rishibh Prakash Dehn Fillings

Accessibility Needs

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