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

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

List of Talks given in 2000-01

Tuesday, September 5 Ryan Budney, Cornell University
A faithful representation of the mapping class group of the genus two surface
Tuesday, September 12 Chris Hruska, Cornell University
Quasiconvexity in nonpositively curved spaces with isolated flats
Thursday, September 14 John Meakin, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Geodesics in surface groups
Tuesday, September 19 James Conant, Cornell University
An introduction to Vassiliev invariants
Thursday, September 21 James Conant, Cornell University
An introduction to Vassiliev invariants II
Tuesday, September 26 James Conant, Cornell University
Finite type invariants, gropes and claspers
Tuesday, October 3 Zoran Sunik, Cornell University
Periodic groups of tree automorphisms with intermediate word growth
Thursday, October 5 Laurent Bartholdi, University of Geneva
Spectra of fractal groups and parabolic subgroups
Friday, October 13 An-Min Li, Sichuan University (China)
Gluing formula for Gromov-Witten invariants and applications
Tuesday, October 17 Zoran Sunik, Cornell University
Periodic groups of tree automorphisms with intermediate word growth II
Tuesday, October 24 Ryan Budney, Cornell University
Mapping class groups of genus two 3-manifolds
Tuesday, October 31 Marshall Cohen, Cornell University
The surjectivity problem for one-generator one-relator extensions of torsion-free groups
Tuesday, November 7 Sema Salur, Cornell University
The deformation theory of special Lagrangian submanifolds
Tuesday, November 14 John Meier, Binghamton University and Lafayette College
Why $P\Sigma_4$ is simply connected at infinity
Thursday, November 30 Laura Anderson, Texas A&M University
Matroid bundles
Tuesday, February 6 Zoran Sunik, Cornell University
Branch groups
Friday, February 9 Weimin Chen, SUNY at Stony Brook
Symplectic structures on S^1 x M^3
Tuesday, February 13 Christopher Hruska, Cornell University
CAT(0) groups with well-defined boundaries
Tuesday, February 20 James Conant, Cornell University
Finite type invariants in different categories
Tuesday, February 27 Christophe Pittet, Cornell University
Quadratic Dehn functions
Tuesday, March 6 Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University
Quotients of automorphism groups of free groups
Tuesday, March 13 Ryan Budney, Cornell University
Linear representations of mapping class groups of surfaces
Tuesday, March 27 James Conant, Cornell University
A transfinite induction in the theory of knots
Tuesday, April 3 Enric Ventura, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Spain)
A description of auto fixed subgroups in free groups
Tuesday, April 10 Benoit Chaluleau, University of Toulouse (France)
Examples of homogeneous Riemannian manifolds not quasi-isometric to any finitely-generated group
Thursday, April 19 Abby Thompson, University of California at Davis
Tunnel number one knots
Thursday, April 26 Tara Brendle, Columbia University
On the linearity problem for mapping class groups
Tuesday, May 8 Konstantin Rybnikov, Cornell University
Gain graphs and the Maxwell-Cremona correspondence