This is the home page for a working group on 3-manifolds that I am organising with Haris Stylianakis. The seminars are primarily aimed at PhD students, although staff are also welcome to attend. The aim is to build a solid understanding of the geometry and topology of 3-manifolds.

Our regular meeting time will be Tuesdays 11am in Room 204.

Mike Snape, Spiros Adams-Florou, Gabriele Tornetta, Anne Thomas, Brendan Owens, Liam Watson, Tara Brendle, Haris Stylianakis and myself.

1. 20/1/15 - Duncan - ' The loop theorem'
2. 27/1/15 - Haris - 'Seifert fibred manifolds'
3. 02/2/15 - Duncan - 'Applications of the loop theorem'
4. 09/2/15 - Haris - 'Seifert fibred manifolds continued'
5. 16/2/15 - Mike - 'Reidermeister torsion I'
6. 23/2/15 - Duncan - 'Primeness and irreducibility'
7. 3/3/15 - No talk
8. 10/3/15 - Mike - 'Reidermeister torsion II'
9. 17/3/15 - Anne - 'The work of Agol and Haglund-Wise'
10. 24/3/15 - Haris - 'The prime decomposition theorem'

At least to begin with, we will be working material that can be found in: