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List of Talks
given in 2002-03
| Thursday, September 12 |
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William Thurston, University of California, Davis
When
is a three-manifold virtually Haken? |
| Tuesday, September 17 |
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Indira Chatterji, Cornell University
On and around
the Bass conjecture |
| Tuesday, September 24 |
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Edward Swartz, Cornell University
Arrangements of
homotopy spheres: part 1 1/2 |
| Tuesday, October 1 |
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James Conant, Cornell University
Torsion invariants
of knots |
| Tuesday, October 8 |
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Tara Brendle, Cornell University
On the linearity
question for mapping class groups, part II |
| Friday, October 18 |
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Kiyoshi Igusa, Brandeis University
Combinatorial Miller-Mumford-Morita
classes and the Witten-Kontsevich conjecture |
| Tuesday, October 22 |
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Tara Brendle, Cornell University
On the linearity
question for mapping class groups: Part III |
| Tuesday, October 29 |
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Dylan Thurston, Harvard University
How efficiently
do 3-manifolds bound 4-manifolds? |
| Thursday, October 31 |
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Hee Oh, Princeton University
Uniform exponential growth
for linear groups |
| Tuesday, November 5 |
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Kai-Uwe Bux, Cornell University
Higher generation
in braid groups |
| Thursday, November 14 |
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James Conant, Cornell University
A tour of knot theory
from the perspective of the simplest Vassiliev invariant |
| Tuesday, November 19 |
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Jean-Francois Lafont, SUNY Binghamton
Rigidity results
for certain singular spaces |
| Tuesday, December 3 |
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Abhijit Champanerkar, Columbia University
The next
simplest hyperbolic knots |
| Tuesday, January 28 |
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Nathan Dunfield, Harvard University
3-manifolds and
groups of homeomorphisms of the circle |
| Tuesday, February 4 |
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Kai-Uwe Bux, Cornell University
An Out(F_n)-analogue
for the Johnson homomorphism |
| Tuesday, February 11 |
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Indira Chatterji, Cornell University
Twisted idempotent
conjectures |
| Tuesday, February 25 |
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Tara Brendle, Cornell University
Relations in the
Torelli group |
| Tuesday, March 4 |
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Olga Buse, SUNY at Stony Brook
From J-holomorphic
curves to the topology of symplectomorphism groups |
| Tuesday, March 11 |
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Melanie Stein, Trinity College
Establishing nonexistence
of laminations and foliations in 3-manifolds using group actions on
order trees |
| Tuesday, March 18 |
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Greg Kuperberg, University of California at Davis
Perturbative
Chern-Simons invariants are finite type |
| Tuesday, March 25 |
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Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
On generic properties of one-relator groups |
| Tuesday, March 25 |
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Kevin Wortman, University of Chicago
On quasi-isometric
rigidity of S-arithmetic classes |
| Tuesday, April 1 |
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Matthew Horak, Cornell University
Relations among
graph complexes |
| Tuesday, April 8 |
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James Conant, Cornell University
Morita's trace cocycles
in H^*[Out(F_n)] |
| Tuesday, April 15 |
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Ian Leary, University of Southampton
Finiteness conditions
and K_0 of group algebras |
| Tuesday, April 22 |
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James Belk, Cornell University
Almost convex groups |
| Thursday, April 24 |
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James Stasheff, University of Pennsylvania
Poisson
sigma models and L_infinity algebras |
| Tuesday, April 29 |
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Kim Ruane, Tufts University
Boundaries of certain
2-dimensional CAT(0) groups |
| Tuesday, April 29 |
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Chris Leininger, Columbia University
On groups generated
by two positive multi-twists |
Last modified:
June 17, 2003
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