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List of Talks
given in 2003-04
| Tuesday, September 9 |
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Nathan Broaddus, Cornell University
Noncyclic covers
of knot complements |
| Tuesday, September 16 |
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Kai-Uwe Bux, Cornell University
Braiding chessboard
complexes |
| Tuesday, September 23 |
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Tara Brendle, Cornell University
Every mapping class
group is generated by 3 torsion elements and by 7 involutions |
| Tuesday, September 30 |
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Edward Swartz, Cornell University
Quotients of spheres
by tori |
| Thursday, October 16 |
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Indira Chatterji, Cornell University
From wall spaces
to CAT(0) cube complexes |
| Tuesday, October 21 |
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James Belk, Cornell University
Forest diagrams for
Thompson's group F |
| Tuesday, October 28 |
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James Conant, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Pulling
apart spheres in 4-space |
| Thursday, November 6 |
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Ruth Charney, Brandeis University
A new look at the
affine braid groups |
| Thursday, November 13 |
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Olga Buse, Michigan State University
Symplectic and
complex deformations |
| Tuesday, November 18 |
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Kevin Wortman, Cornell University
S-arithmetic lattices
and quasi-isometric rigidity |
| Thursday, November 20 |
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Inga Johnson, University of Rochester
On the degree
2 map of a sphere |
| Tuesday, December 2 |
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Lee Mosher, Rutgers University, Newark
Teichmüller
theory in outer space |
| Thursday, February 5 |
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Kai-Uwe Bux, Cornell University
Growth in iterated
monodromy groups |
| Thursday, February 12 |
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Jean-Francois Lafont, Binghamton University
Involutions
of negatively curved groups with exotic boundary behavior |
| Tuesday, February 17 |
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Indira Chatterji, Cornell University
Some groups acting
on CAT(0) cube complexes |
| Tuesday, February 24 |
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Kevin Wortman, Cornell University
Large-scale geometry
of discrete subgroups of semisimple Lie groups |
| Tuesday, March 2 |
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Peter Kahn, Cornell University
Group extensions and
symplectic torus bundles |
| Tuesday, March 9 |
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Ross Geoghegan, Binghamton University
The FP_n conjecture
for metabelian groups |
| Tuesday, March 16 |
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Dan Margalit, University of Utah
Braid groups are
almost co-Hopfian |
| Tuesday, March 30 |
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Murray Elder, University of St. Andrews (Scotland)
Regular,
context-free and counter languages of geodesics |
| Tuesday, April 6 |
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Saul Schleimer, University of Illinois at Chicago
Heegaard
splittings and Haken's program |
| Thursday, April 15 |
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Will Kazez, University of Georgia
Contact structures
and convex decompositions |
| Tuesday, April 20 |
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Mustafa Korkmaz, Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
Homomorphisms from mapping class groups |
| Thursday, April 22 |
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Sema Salur, Northwestern University
Deformations of
calibrated submanifolds |
| Tuesday, April 27 |
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G. Christopher Hruska, University of Chicago
Lattices
in trees and 2-complexes |
| Tuesday, May 4 |
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Graham Niblo, University of Southampton, England
Hilbert
space compression and exactness for groups acting on CAT(0) cube complexes |
| Tuesday, May 11 |
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Christophe Pittet, Universite de Marseille
Is the
Dehn function of SL(4,Z) quadratic? |
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April 29, 2004
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