Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)
Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)
List of Talks given in 1995-96
| Tue., September 12 | John Meier, Lafayette College Graph groups and finiteness properties |
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| Tue., September 19 | Allen Hatcher, Cornell University Homotopy type of the space of all knots |
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| Tue., September 26 | Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University An equivariant Whitehead algorithm |
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| Tue., October 3 | Eric Babson, Cornell University TBA |
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| Thu., October 12 | Thomas Delzant, University of Strasbourg On Sela�s acylindrical accessibility |
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| Thu., October 19 | Ross Geoghegan, SUNY at Binghamton A new Euler characteristic for circle actions |
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| Tue., October 24 | Marshall Cohen, Cornell University N. Brady�s work on subgroups of hyperbolic groups |
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| Tue., October 31 | Sean Cleary, University of Pennsylvania Boundaries of hyperbolic groups |
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| Tue., November 7 | Guyan Robertson, University of Newcastle Some groups which act on triangle buildings |
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| Tue., November 14 | Martin Lustig, Ruhr Universitat, Bochum Perron-Frobenius actions of free groups on {\bf R}-trees |
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| Tue., November 21 | Martin Lustig, Ruhr Universitat, Bochum The index of a free group automorphism and the Scott conjecture for infinite words |
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| Tue., November 28 | Karin Johnsgard, Cornell University Counting geodesics in abelian groups |
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| Tue., January 30 | Boris Goldfarb, Cornell University Novikov conjectures for arithmetic groups with large actions at infinity, I: new boundaries for symmetric spaces |
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| Tue., February 6 | Boris Goldfarb, Cornell University Novikov conjectures for arithmetic groups with large actions at infinity II: saturation in the boundary |
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| Thu., February 15 | Steve Ferry, SUNY at Binghamton Limits of manifolds & polyhedra in Gromov-Hausdorff space |
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| Tue., February 20 | Karoly Bezdek, Cornell visitor A proof of Hadwiger�s covering conjecture for dual-to-cyclic polytopes |
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| Tue., February 27 | Samuel Evens, University of Arizona Euler obstructions for nilpotent orbits |
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| Tue., March 26 | Jiang-Hua Lu, University of Arizona Lie algebroids and Poisson cohomology |
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| Tue., April 9 | Karin Johnsgard, Cornell University Shortest conjugacy representatives |
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| Tue., April 23 | Tom Braden, MIT Intersection homology of toric varieties, polytopes and a conjecture of Kalai |