Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)

List of Talks given in 1999-2000

Tuesday, September 7   Dani Wise, Cornell University
Eventually injective endomorphisms
Tuesday, September 14   Chris Hruska, Cornell University
Ladders, towers and the B. B. Newman spelling theorem
Tuesday, September 21   Andrzej Zuk, Cornell University
On an isoperimetric inequality for infinite finitely generated groups
Tuesday, September 28   John Meier, Cornell University
Tame combings and variations on Cannon's almost convexity
Tuesday, October 5   William Dunbar, Cornell University
Orbit spaces of crystallographic groups
Tuesday, October 19   Ed Swartz, Cornell University
Finite linear quotients of spheres
Tuesday, October 19   Edward Swartz, Cornell University
Finite linear quotients of spheres
Thursday, October 21   Martin Bridson, Oxford University
The grammatical complexity of groups and manifolds
Tuesday, October 26   Allen Hatcher, Cornell University
3-manifolds as tinkertoys
Tuesday, November 2   Marshall Cohen, Cornell University
Klyachko's theorem: car crashes and equations over groups
Tuesday, November 9   Marshall Cohen, Cornell University
Klyachko's theorem: car crashes and equations over groups (part II)
Tuesday, November 16   Tom Stiadle, Wells College
Generalized Waldhausen K-theory and homology with stratified coefficients
Tuesday, November 23   Dani Wise, Cornell University
Negative curvature and residual finiteness
Tuesday, November 30   Boris Goldfarb, SUNY at Albany
Rigidity and the large scale
Thursday, January 27   Richard Schwartz, University of Maryland
Circle quotients and string art
Tuesday, February 15   Marshall Cohen, Cornell University
Long-standing questions on Whitehead torsion
Tuesday, February 22   Marshall Cohen, Cornell University
Group extensions and unsolved problems in Whitehead torsion II
Tuesday, February 29   Peter Abramenko, University of Bielefeld and Cornell University
On opposition in spherical buildings
Tuesday, March 7   John Hubbard, Cornell University
On the topology and homology of Farey blowups
Tuesday, March 14   John Hubbard, Cornell University
On the topology and homology of Farey blowups II
Thursday, March 16   Dan Farley, SUNY at Binghamton
Finiteness and CAT(0) properties of diagram groups
Tuesday, March 28   Edward Swartz, Cornell University
Logic meets Riemannian geometry
Tuesday, April 4   Ferenc Gerlits, Cornell University
Kontsevich's graph homology
Tuesday, April 11   Peter Kahn, Cornell University
When is a symplectic circle action Hamiltonian?
Tuesday, April 18   Michael Shapiro, Cornell University
Dehn's algorithm revisited
Tuesday, April 25   Chris Hruska, Cornell University
Small cancellation groups are automatic
Thursday, April 27   Robert Fisher, Idaho State University and Cornell University
An alternative view of connections in Riemannian geometry
Tuesday, May 2   Ryan Budney, Cornell University
Mapping class groups of spherical 3-manifolds