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List of Talks
given in 2004-05
| Tuesday, September 7 |
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Brendan Owens, Cornell University
A generalization of a theorem of Elkies |
| Tuesday, September 14 |
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Martin Kassabov, Cornell University
Computing Kazhdan constants |
| Tuesday, September 21 |
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Dan Margalit, University of Utah
Weil-Petersson isometries are mapping classes |
| Tuesday, September 28 |
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Jason Behrstock, Columbia University
Asymptotic geometry of the mapping class group and Teichmüller space |
| Tuesday, October 5 |
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Tara Brendle, Cornell University
Commensurations of the Johnson kernel |
| Tuesday, October 19 |
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Christophe Pittet, Université de Marseille
Random walks on compactly generated groups |
| Tuesday, October 26 |
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Azer Akhmedov, University of California, Santa Barbara
Quasi-isometric rigidity in group varieties |
| Tuesday, October 26 |
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Martin Bridson, Imperial College, London
On the geometry and complexity of balanced presentations of groups |
| Tuesday, November 2 |
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Nathalie Wahl, University of Aarhus (Denmark)
Mapping class groups and automorphisms of free groups |
| Tuesday, November 9 |
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Indira Chatterji, Cornell University
On a characterization of hyperbolic spaces |
| Tuesday, November 16 |
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Aaron Heap, University of Rochester
Bordism invariants of the mapping class group |
| Tuesday, November 23 |
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Walter Neumann, Columbia University
Three-manifolds of splice type |
| Tuesday, November 30 |
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David Rosenthal, St. John's University
On the algebraic K- and L-theory of word hyperbolic groups |
| Thursday, December 2 |
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Martin Scharlemann, University of California, Santa Barbara
Proximity in the curve complex: boundary reduction and bicompressible surfaces |
| Friday, February 4 |
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Dylan Thurston, Harvard University
How efficiently do 3-manifolds bound 4-manifolds? |
| Tuesday, February 8 |
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Martin Kassabov, Cornell University
New examples of groups with property tau |
| Tuesday, February 15 |
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Kevin Wortman, Cornell University
An infinite solvable group with small quasi-isometry group |
| Tuesday, March 1 |
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Joe Coffey, New York University
Failure of parametric H-principle for maps with prescribed Jacobian |
| Tuesday, March 8 |
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Alireza Salehi-Golsefidy, Yale University
Lattices of minimum covolume in classical Chevalley groups over F_q(1/t) |
| Tuesday, March 15 |
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Tim Riley, Yale University
Intrinsic versus extrinsic diameter in finitely presented groups |
| Tuesday, March 29 |
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Martin Kassabov, Cornell University
Symmetric groups and expanders |
| Tuesday, April 5 |
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Joseph Masters, SUNY at Buffalo
Quasi-Fuchsian surfaces in hyperbolic knot manifolds |
| Tuesday, April 12 |
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Gregory Bell, Pennsylvania State University
Asymptotic dimension of groups |
| Thursday, April 21 |
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Angela Barnhill, Ohio State University
Global fixed points for actions of Coxeter groups on CAT(0) spaces |
| Tuesday, April 26 |
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James Belk, Cornell University
The Grigorchuk group |
| Thursday, April 28 |
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Mark Sapir, Vanderbilt
Hilbert space compression |
| Thursday, May 5 |
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Dan Margalit, University of Utah
Finiteness properties of the Torelli group for Out(F_3) |
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May 5, 2005
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