Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar

List of Talks given in 2009-10

Tuesday, September 8   Jason Manning, University at Buffalo
Residual finiteness and separability of quasiconvex subgroups
Tuesday, September 22   Timothy Riley, Cornell University
Hydra groups
Thursday, October 8   Will Dison, University of Bristol
Dehn functions of Bestvina-Brady groups
Thursday, October 15   Ana Rita Pires, MIT
Symplectic origami
Thursday, October 22   Stephen Wang, Bucknell University
Surface groups, Artin groups, and their representations
Tuesday, October 27   Fred Cohen, University of Rochester
Generalized moment-angle complexes
Tuesday, November 3   Adam Sikora, University at Buffalo
Character varieties
Tuesday, November 10   Matt Rathbun, University of California at Davis
High distance knots in any 3-manifold
Thursday, November 12   Kim Ruane, Tufts University
Automorphism groups of graph products
Tuesday, November 17   Dmytro Savchuk, Binghamton University
Automata generating free products of groups of order 2
Tuesday, December 1   Matt Brin, Binghamton University
Shavgulidze’s paper on the amenability of Thompson’s group F
Tuesday, January 26   Evgeny Shavgulidze, Moscow State University
About amenability of subgroups of the group of diffeomorphisms of the interval
Tuesday, February 2   Eran Nevo, Cornell University
Commensurizer growth
Tuesday, February 9   Jason Manning, University at Buffalo
Virtually geometric words and Whitehead’s algorithm
Tuesday, February 16   Bogdan Petrenko, SUNY Brockport
On the smallest number of generators and the probability of generating an algebra
Tuesday, February 23   Kelly Delp, Buffalo State College
The marked length spectrum of a real projective manifold or orbifold
Tuesday, March 2   Allen Hatcher, Cornell University
The Madsen-Weiss theorem
Tuesday, March 9   James Conant, University of Tennessee
The cohomology of Out(F_n) and the Eichler-Shimura isomorphism
Tuesday, March 30   Martin Kassabov, Cornell University
Bounding the residual finiteness of free groups
Tuesday, April 6   William Thurston, Cornell University
Approximately finite groups
Tuesday, April 13   Eduardo Martinez Pedroza, McMaster University
Separation of quasiconvex subgroups
Tuesday, April 20   Owen Baker, Cornell University
The Jacobian map on outer space
Tuesday, April 27   Keith Jones, Binghamton University
Connectivity properties for groups acting on locally finite trees
Tuesday, May 4   Victor Kostyuk, Cornell University
An outer space for 2-dimensional right-angled Artin groups