Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
List of Talks given in 2010-11
| Tuesday, August 31 | Emily Dryden, Bucknell University Upper bounds for eigenvalues of submanifolds |
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| Tuesday, September 7 | Lucas Sabalka, Binghamton University On the geometry of Out(F_n) |
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| Tuesday, September 14 | Justin Moore, Cornell University Laver tables and Thompson’s group F |
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| Tuesday, September 21 | Martin Kassabov, Cornell University On a conjecture of Borel and Tits about abstract homomorphisms between algebraic groups |
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| Tuesday, October 5 | Jim Davis, Indiana University Equivariant rigidity, Smith theory, and actions on tori |
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| Tuesday, October 19 | Zoran Sunic, Texas A&M University Hanoi twin towers |
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| Tuesday, October 26 | Hee Jung Kim, Binghamton University Double point surgery and exotic group actions in 4-manifolds |
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| Tuesday, November 9 | Matt Zaremsky, University of Virginia Weyl transitive but not strongly transitive group actions on buildings |
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| Tuesday, November 30 | Patricia Hersh, North Carolina State University and Cornell University Shelling Coxeter-like complexes and sorting on trees |
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| Tuesday, December 7 | Igor Rapinchuk, Yale University Linear representations of Chevalley groups over rings: two approaches |
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| Tuesday, January 25 | Iddo Samet, Hebrew University Homology and volume of negatively curved orbifolds |
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| Tuesday, February 1 | Tom Church, University of Chicago Representation theory and homological stability |
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| Tuesday, February 15 | Timothy Riley, Cornell University The Dehn function of Baumslag’s metabelian group |
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| Tuesday, February 22 | Tomoo Matsumura, Cornell University Hamiltonian torus actions on orbifolds |
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| Thursday, March 3 | Matt Clay, Allegheny College The geometry of right-angled Artin subgroups of mapping class groups |
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| Tuesday, March 8 | Sang-hyun (Sam) Kim, KAIST and Tufts University Hyperbolic surface subgroups of one-ended doubles of free groups |
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| Tuesday, March 15 | Juan Alonso, Cornell University New examples of the cyclic JSJ decomposition for groups |
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| Tuesday, March 29 | Chris Cashen, University of Utah Virtually geometric multiwords |
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| Tuesday, April 5 | Owen Baker, Cornell University The Jacobian map on outer space |
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| Tuesday, April 12 | Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Spectrally rigid subsets of free groups |
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| Thursday, April 14 | Nitu Kitchloo, University of California at San Diego Bott-Samelson resolutions, universal lifts and Kac-Moody groups |
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| Tuesday, April 19 | Pallavi Dani, Louisiana State University Filling invariants at infinity |
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| Tuesday, April 26 | Victor Kostyuk, Cornell University Contractibility of fixed point sets in an outer space for 2-dimensional right-angled Artin groups |