Topology Seminar

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar

Spring 2012

1:30 – 2:30, Malott 203

Tuesdays and some Thursdays

 Tuesday January 24 Tomoo Matsumura, KAIST
The Moment Angle Complex and the Integral Cohomology of Toric orbifolds
 Tuesday January 31 Milena Pabiniak, Cornell
Lower bounds for Gromov width of the unitary and special orthogonal coadjoint orbits
 Thursday February 9 Joan Licata, IAS
Legendrian knot invariants in Seifert fibered spaces
 Tuesday February 14 Khalid Bou-Rabee, Michigan (cancelled)
Intersection growth of groups
 Tuesday February 21
 Tuesday February 28 Alex Lubotzky, Hebrew University
Sieve methods in group theory
 Tuesday March 6 Benjamin Matschke, IAS
A parametrized version of Gromov's waist of the sphere theorem
 Tuesday March 13
 Tuesday March 20 Spring break
 Tuesday March 27 Alexander Ushakov, Stevens Institute of Technology
The Diophantine problem for quadratic equations over Grigorchuk's group
 Tuesday April 3
 Tuesday April 10 Genevieve Walsh, Tufts
Right-angled Coxeter groups and acute triangulations
 Thursday April 19 Ian Biringer, Yale
Random samplings of locally symmetric spaces
 Tuesday April 24
 Tuesday May 1 Dan Zaffran, KAIST
Foliations modelling nonrational toric varieties
  May 4–7 The 50th Topology Festival

Travel to Ithaca, campus maps etc.

Past talks: Fall 2011 | Spring 2011 | Fall 2010 | Spring 2010 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2009 | Fall 2008 | Spring 2008 | Fall 2007 | Previous years


Organizers: Martin Kassabov and Tim Riley
Mailing list: topsem@math.cornell.edu

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