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List of Talks
given in 2006-07
| Tuesday, September 5 |
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Martin Kassabov, Cornell University
Cartesian products as profinite completions and representation
growth of groups |
| Tuesday, September 12 |
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Collin Bleak, Binghamton University and Cornell University
Some questions about the dimension of an action |
| Tuesday, September 19 |
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Alex Gamburd, University of California at Santa Cruz
Uniform spectral gap bounds in SL_2 and SU(2) |
| Thursday, September 21 |
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Indira Chatterji, Ohio State University
A characterization of hyperbolicity |
| Tuesday, October 3 |
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Denis Osin, CCNY
Cut points in asymptotic cones of finitely generated groups |
| Thursday, October 12 |
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Jim Conant, University of Tennessee
Ornate necklaces and the homology of the genus of one mapping
class group |
| Tuesday, October 17 |
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Jason Manning, SUNY at Buffalo
A coarse geometric Dehn filling theorem |
| Thursday, October 19 |
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Justin Moore, Boise State University
A solution to the L space problem |
| Tuesday, October 24 |
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Gabriela Schmithüsen, Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
and Cornell University
Veech groups and Teichmüller curves of origamis |
| Tuesday, October 31 |
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Peter Samuelson, Cornell University
On CAT(0) structures for free-by-cyclic groups |
| Tuesday, November 7 |
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Christophe Pittet, Université de Marseille and Cornell
University
Bounded 2-cocycles in Lie groups |
| Tuesday, November 14 |
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Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University
Outer space for right-angled Artin groups |
| Tuesday, November 21 |
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Collin Bleak, Binghamton University and Cornell University
Structure theorems for groups of homeomorphisms of the circle |
| Tuesday, November 28 |
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Dan Farley, Miami University
The action of Thompson's group F on a CAT(0) boundary |
| Tuesday, December 5 |
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Peter Brinkmann, CCNY
Algorithmically improving train tracks |
| Thursday, February 1 |
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Anna Wienhard, University of Chicago
Foliated projective structures and Teichmüller components
for PSL(4,R) |
| Tuesday, February 6 |
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Murray Elder, Stevens Institute of Technology
Asymptotic properties of subgroups of Thompson's group F |
| Thursday, February 8 |
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Anne Thomas, University of Chicago
Lattices acting on polyhedral complexes |
| Tuesday, February 20 |
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Andrew Putnam, University of Chicago
An infinite presentation of the Torelli group |
| Tuesday, February 27 |
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Gabriel Picioroaga, Binghamton University
Some properties of exact groups |
| Tuesday, March 6 |
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James Parkinson, Cornell University
The affine Grassmannian and alcove walks |
| Tuesday, March 13 |
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Seonhee Lim, Notre Dame University
Volume entropy of hyperbolic buildings |
| Thursday, March 15 |
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Alexander Ushakov, Stevens Institute of Technology
Algorithmic problems in the Baumslag-Gersten group |
| Tuesday, March 27 |
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Martin Hamilton, University of Glasgow
Finitary group cohomology and group actions on spheres |
| Thursday, April 5 |
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James Belk, Texas A&M University
Conjugacy and dynamics in Thompson’s groups |
| Thursday, April 12 |
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Genevieve Walsh, Tufts University
Commensurability classes of 2-bridge knots |
| Tuesday, April 17 |
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Adam Piggott, Tufts University
On the automorphisms of a graph product of cyclic groups |
| Tuesday, April 24 |
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Marco Varisco, Binghamton University
Algebraic K-theory of group rings and topological cyclic homology |
| Tuesday, May 1 |
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Matthew G. Brin, Binghamton University
Operads, fractions, Thompson groups and categories with multiplication |
| Thursday, May 3 |
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Dylan Thurston, Columbia University
Combinatorial Heegard-Floer homology for knots via grid diagrams |
| Wednesday, June 6 |
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Frank Herrlich, Universität Karlsruhe
p-adic Techmüller space and a map to outer
space |
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