Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar

List of Talks given in 2008-09

Tuesday, September 9   Lucas Sabalka, University of California at Davis
Navigating blindly
Tuesday, September 16   Biao Wang, Cornell University
Foliations for quasi-Fuchsian 3-manifolds
Tuesday, September 23   Jeremie Brieussel, Cornell University
Intermediate and non-uniform growth of groups
Tuesday, September 30   Ruth Charney, Brandeis University
Automorphism groups of right-angled Artin groups
Thursday, October 9   Gabriela Schmithüsen, Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
Origamis in outer space
Tuesday, October 21   Jeremie Brieussel, Cornell University
Groups of nonuniform growth and questions of amenability
Tuesday, October 28   Emanuele Delucchi, Binghamton University
“Garside-type” models for complements of arrangements of hyperplanes
Thursday, October 30   Martin Bridson, University of Oxford
Subgroups of direct products of surface, free and limit groups
Tuesday, November 4   Talia Fernós, UCLA
Property (T) and friends
Thursday, November 6   Diane Vavrichek, Binghamton University
Quasi-isometry invariant commensurizer subgroups
Tuesday, November 18   Eugene Lerman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Prequantization of orbifolds
Thursday, November 20   Angela Kubena Barnhill, Northwestern University
Density of commensurators of uniform lattices in right-angled buildings
Tuesday, December 2   Helen Wong, Bowdoin College
The mapping class group, Heegard splittings, and quantum invariants for 3-manifolds
Tuesday, December 9   Misha Ershov, University of Virginia
Property (T) for elementary linear groups over associative rings
Tuesday, January 27   Justin Moore, Cornell University
Fast growth in Følner sets for Thompson’s group F
Tuesday, February 10   Max Horn, Technische Universität Darmstadt and Cornell University
Involutions of groups with twin BN-pair
Tuesday, February 17   Pierre Py, University of Chicago
Quasi-morphisms and area-preserving homeomorphisms
Tuesday, February 24   Ross Geoghegan, Binghamton University
Subgroups of Thompson’s group F
Tuesday, March 3   Eran Nevo, Cornell University
Using the Van Kampen obstruction
Thursday, March 12   Jim Conant, University of Tennessee
Quasi Lie algebras and concordance invariants of links
Thursday, March 26   Amir Mohammadi, Yale University
Unipotent flows in positive characteristic and applications
Tuesday, March 31   Tim Riley, University of Bristol
How wild can a group with a quadratic Dehn function be?
Tuesday, April 7   Martin Kassabov, Cornell University
Subspace arrangements and property T
Tuesday, April 14   Biao Wang, Cornell University
Minimal surfaces in quasi-Fuchsian 3-manifolds
Tuesday, April 21   Adam Piggott, Bucknell College
Normal forms for automorphisms of groups
Tuesday, April 28   Claire Wladis, CUNY
Subgroups and distortion in the generalized Thompson groups
Wednesday, May 6   Jane Gilman, Rutgers University (Newark)
Continued fractions, palindromes, and PSL(2,C) discreteness criteria