Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
List of Talks given in 2011-12
| Tuesday, August 30 | Dylan Thurston, Columbia University and Cornell University Introduction to Heegaard Floer homology |
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| Tuesday, September 6 | Justin Moore, Cornell University Amenability and Ramsey theory |
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| Tuesday, September 20 | Reyer Sjamaar, Cornell University (Almost) Lagrangian fibre bundles |
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| Thursday, September 22 | Greg Kuperberg, University of California at Davis Buildings, spiders, and geometric Satake |
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| Tuesday, October 4 | Juan Alonso, Cornell University Measure free factors of free groups |
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| Tuesday, October 18 | Christian Zickert, University of Maryland Parametrizing representations of 3-manifold groups |
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| Tuesday, October 25 | Peter Kropholler, Glasgow University and Cornell University Wilson’s short proof of the Romanovskii-Wilson theorem |
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| Tuesday, November 1 | Robert Bieri, University of Frankfurt and Binghamton University Isolated and condensation points in the space of marked groups |
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| Tuesday, November 8 | Kim Ruane, Tufts University Automorphism groups of right-angled Coxeter groups |
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| Thursday, November 10 | Sergio Fenley, Florida State University Pseudo-Anosov flows in Seifert fibered and solvable 3-manifolds |
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| Tuesday, November 15 | Mark Hagen, McGill University Graphs associated to CAT(0) cube complexes |
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| Tuesday, November 22 | Harold Sultan, Columbia University Hyperbolic direction in CAT(0) spaces |
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| Tuesday, November 29 | Igor Mineyev, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Submultiplicativity and the Hanna Neumann conjecture |
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| Thursday, December 1 | Nick Sheridan, MIT Homological mirror symmetry for a Calabi-Yau hypersurface in projective space |
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| Tuesday, December 6 | Camille Horbez, ENS and Cornell University Sphere paths in outer space |
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| Tuesday, January 24 | Tomoo Matsumura, KAIST The moment angle complex and the integral cohomology of toric orbifolds |
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| Tuesday, January 31 | Milena Pabiniak, Cornell University Lower bounds for Gromov width of the unitary and special orthogonal coadjoint orbits |
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| Thursday, February 9 | Joan Licata, Institute for Advanced Study Legendrian knot invariants in Seifert fibered spaces |
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| Thursday, February 28 | Alex Lubotzky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Sieve methods in group theory |
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| Tuesday, March 6 | Benjamin Matschke, Institute for Advanced Study A parametrized version of Gromov’s waist of the sphere theorem |
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| Tuesday, March 27 | Alexander Ushakov, Stevens Institute of Technology The Diophantine problem for quadratic equations over Grigorchuk’s group |
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| Tuesday, April 10 | Genevieve Walsh, Tufts University Right-angled Coxeter groups and acute triangulations |
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| Thursday, April 19 | Ian Biringer, Yale University Random samplings of locally symmetric spaces |
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| Tuesday, May 1 | Dan Zaffran, KAIST Foliations modeling nonrational toric varieties |