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List of Talks
given in 2007-08
| Tuesday, September 4 |
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Roland Roeder, University of Toronto
Computing arithmetic invariants for hyperbolic reflection groups |
| Tuesday, September 11 |
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Ken Brown, Cornell University
Automorphisms of buildings have infinite displacement |
| Tuesday, September 18 |
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Kasra Rafi, University of Connecticut
The curve complex is rigid |
| Tuesday, September 25 |
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Brad Forrest, Cornell University
Degree subcomplexes of Auter space |
| Tuesday, October 2 |
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Laurent Bartholdi, École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Amenable groups and algebras |
| Tuesday, October 9 |
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Alireza Golsefidy, Princeton University
Lattices with small covolume |
| Tuesday, October 16 |
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Uzy Hadad, Hebrew University
Uniform Kazhdan constant for some families of linear groups |
| Tuesday, October 23 |
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Reyer Sjamaar, Cornell University
Divided difference operators in equivariant cohomology |
| Tuesday, October 30 |
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Yvonne Lai, University of California at Davis
Using simplicial trees to generate an effective compactness theorem for Coxeter groups |
| Tuesday, November 6 |
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Allen Knutson, University of California, San Diego
Schubert calculus and geometric shifting: combinatorics meets combinatorics, via geometry |
| Tuesday, November 13 |
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Bogdan Petrenko, SUNY Brockport
Some formulas for the smallest number of generators for finite direct sums of matrix algebras |
| Thursday, November 15 |
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Tony Bahri, Rider University
Piecewise polynomials and the equivariant cohomology of weighted projective spaces |
| Tuesday, November 20 |
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Vesselin Drensky, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Automorphisms and derivations of polynomial and free associative algebras |
| Tuesday, November 27 |
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Martin Kassabov, Cornell University
Generating polycyclic groups |
| Tuesday, February 5 |
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Danny Calegari, California Institute of Technology
Stable commutator length is rational in free groups |
| Tuesday, February 12 |
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José Burillo, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya
Commensurators and finite-index subgroups of Thompson's group F |
| Tuesday, February 19 |
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Anne Thomas, Cornell University
Existence, covolumes, and commensurators of lattices acting on polyhedral complexes |
| Tuesday, February 26 |
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Seonhee Lim, Cornell University
Volume entropy rigidity for hyperbolic buildings |
| Tuesday, March 4 |
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Corinna Ulcigrai, University of Bristol
On the ergodic properties of multi-valued Hamiltonian flows |
| Thursday, March 6 |
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Peter Abramenko, University of Virginia
Finiteness properties of some discrete groups |
| Tuesday, March 11 |
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Alireza Golsefidy, Princeton University
Translates of horospherical measures and counting problems |
| Tuesday, April 1 |
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Tomoo Matsumura, Max Planck Institute
The stringy cohomology of symmetric product of an orbifold |
| Tuesday, April 8 |
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Bronlyn Wassink, Binghamton University
Finite-index subgroups of Thompson's group F |
| Tuesday, April 15 |
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Jason Manning, University at Buffalo
Geometric Dehn filling of high-dimensional hyperbolic manifolds |
| Tuesday, April 22 |
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Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University
Automorphism groups of right-angled Artin groups |
| Tuesday, April 29 |
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Tara Holm, Cornell University
Introduction to symplectic geometry |
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