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List of Talks
given in 2005-06
| Tuesday, September 6 |
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Francesco Matucci, Firenze and Cornell University
The simultaneous conjugacy problem for Thompson's group F is solvable |
| Tuesday, September 20 |
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Edward Swartz, Cornell University
f-vectors and manifolds |
| Tuesday, September 27 |
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Craig Johnson, Marywood & Cornell University
A computer search for free actions on orientable surfaces |
| Tuesday, October 4 |
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Jason Behrstock, University of Utah
Relative hyperbolicity and the mapping class group |
| Tuesday, October 18 |
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Ross Geoghegan, SUNY at Binghamton
Associativity and Thompson's group |
| Tuesday, October 25 |
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Mikhail Ershov, Yale University and IAS
Finite presentations of pro-p groups and Lie algebras |
| Tuesday, November 1 |
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Matthew Horak, Trinity College
Group actions on order trees |
| Tuesday, November 8 |
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Marc Lackenby, Oxford University
Counting covering spaces and subgroups in dimension 3 |
| Monday, November 14 |
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Michael Handel, CUNY
The commensurator group of Out(F_n) |
| Tuesday, November 22 |
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Andrzej Zuk, University of Paris 7 & Institute for Advanced Study
Automata groups |
| Tuesday, November 29 |
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Collin Bleak, SUNY at Binghamton
Solvability in groups of piecewise-linear homeomorphisms of the unit interval |
| Tuesday, December 6 |
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Seonhee Lim, Yale University
Minimal volume entropy on graphs and buildings |
| Thursday, January 26 |
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Ruth Charney, Brandeis
Outer space for right-angled Artin groups |
| Tuesday, January 31 |
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Pedro Ontaneda, SUNY Binghamton
Ricci flow and negative curvature in higher dimensions |
| Thursday, February 9 |
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Josep Burillo, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
The braided Thompson's group |
| Tuesday, February 14 |
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James Conant, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
The rational unstable homology of automorphism groups of free groups |
| Tuesday, February 21 |
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Tom Stiadle, Wells College and Cornell University
Characterizing centers of graphs of groups |
| Tuesday, February 28 |
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Tara Brendle, Louisiana State University
The Johnson filtration of the mapping class group and Heegaard splittings of 3-manifolds |
| Thursday, March 9 |
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Zoran Sunik, Texas A&M University
Hanoi towers, Schreier graphs, iterated monodromy groups and Julia sets |
| Tuesday, March 14 |
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Donald Cartwright, University of Sydney
Groups acting simply transitively on the vertices of a building |
| Thursday, March 16 |
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Udo Baumgartner, University of Newcastle, Australia
Flat rank as a geometric invariant of totally disconnected, locally compact groups |
| Tuesday, March 28 |
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Vladimir Shpilrain, City College of New York
Densities in free and free abelian groups |
| Thursday, March 30 |
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Nikolay Nikolov, Oxford University
Counting primes, groups, and manifolds |
| Tuesday, April 4 |
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Craig Johnson, Marywood & Cornell University
An obstruction to embedding a simplicial n-complex into a 2n-manifold |
| Tuesday, April 18 |
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Francesco Matucci, Firenze and Cornell University
On trivalent directed graphs and conjugacy classes of Thompson's group F |
| Tuesday, May 2 |
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Stefan Wenger, New York University
Isoperimetric inequalities of Euclidean and sub-Euclidean type in metric spaces |
Last modified:
May 23, 2006
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