Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)

List of Talks given in 1996-97

Tue., September 3   Wolfgang Metzler, University of Frankfurt
Tue., September 10   Kazem Mahdavi, SUNY at Potsdam
Automatic groups and relatively free groups
Mon., September 16   Kazem Mahdavi, Cornell University & SUNY at Potsdam
Automatic groups and relativity free groups II
Tue., September 17   Peter Kahn, Cornell University
Seiberg-Witten theory: an overview
Mon., September 23   Allen Hatcher, Cornell University
The Jaco-Shalen/Johannson splitting of 3-manifolds
Tue., September 24   Roger Livesay, Cornell University
Matveev's proof of the Rubenstein-Thompson algorithm for recognizing S^3
Mon., September 30   Roger Alperin, San Jose State University and Cornell University
Remarks on triangles of groups
Mon., October 7   Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University
The JSJ splitting for finitely presented groups, I
Tue., October 8   Roger Livesay, Cornell University
Matveev's proof of the Rubenstein-Thompson algorithm for recognizing S^3
Tue., October 15   Roger Livesay, Cornell University
Matveev's proof of the Rubenstein-Thompson algorithm for recognizing S^3
Mon., October 21   Laurent Soloff-Coste, Toulouse and CNRS
Isoperimetry on groups
Mon., October 28   Marshall Cohen, Cornell University
The JSJ splitting for finitely presented groups, II
Tue., October 29   Roger Livesay, Cornell University
Matveev's proof of the Rubenstein-Thompson algorithm for recognizing S^3
Mon., November 4   Noel Brady, Cornell University
The geometry of certain kernel subgroups of right-angled Artin groups
Tue., November 5   Harel Barzilai, Cornell University
Patched handlebodies and homological finiteness of mapping class groups
Mon., November 11   Marshall Cohen, Cornell University
The JSJ splitting for finitely presented groups, III
Mon., November 18   Mark Feighn, Rutgers University at Newark
The solvable subgroups of Out(F_N)
Tue., November 19   Noel Brady, Cornell University
The geometry of certain kernel subgroups of right-angled Artin groups, II
Mon., November 25   Susan Hermiller, New Mexico State University
Isoperimetric functions and solvable groups
Tue., November 26   Mark Brittenham, Vassar College
Essential laminations are everywhere
Mon., December 2   Noel Brady, Cornell University
The JSJ splitting for finitely presented groups, IV
Tue., December 3   Noel Brady, Cornell University
Some finiteness properties of kernels of right-angled Artin groups, III
Tue., December 10   Noel Brady, Cornell University
The JSJ splitting for finitely presented groups, V
Tue., December 10   Takashi Tokieda, McGill University
Wiggling of curves and null sets of symplectic capacity
Tue., January 28   Noel Brady, Cornell University
The JSJ splitting for finitely presented groups, VI
Thu., January 30   Noel Brady, Cornell University
Morse theory and finiteness properties of groups
Tue., February 4   Marshall Cohen, Cornell University
The simplicial complex of graphs of groups
Thu., February 6   Marshall Cohen, Cornell University
The simplicial complex of graphs of groups, II
Tue., February 11   Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University
Whitehead's algorithm for surface automorphisms
Tue., February 18   Cynthia Hog-Angeloni, Cornell University & Frankfurt University
Non-efficient groups and homotopy equivalent 2-complexes
Tue., February 25   Harel Barzilai, Cornell University
Contractible disk complexes for finiteness properties of mapping class groups
Thu., February 27   Bobby Kleinberg, Cornell University
Train tracks and zipping sequences for pseudo-Anosov braids
Thu., March 6   Bobby Kleinberg, Cornell University
Train tracks and zipping sequences for pseudo-Anosov braids, II
Tue., March 11   Ryan Budney, Cornell University
Unoriented cobordism theory
Tue., March 25   Cynthia Hog-Angeloni, Cornell University & Frankfurt University
Comparison of 2-complexes and the generalized Andrews-Curtis conjecture
Tue., April 8   Allen Hatcher, Cornell University
Introduction to the topology of hyperplane arrangements
Tue., April 15   Allen Hatcher, Cornell University
Introduction to the topology of hyperplane arrangements, II
Thu., April 24   Ross Geoghegan, Binghamton University
Actions of discrete groups on non-positively curved spaces
Tue., April 29   Persi Diaconis, Harvard University
Random walk and hyperplane arrangements
Thu., May 1   Arkady Berenstein, Cornell University
Combinatorics of hyperplane arrangements