Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)
Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)
List of Talks given in 2003-04
| Tuesday, September 9 | Nathan Broaddus, Cornell University Noncyclic covers of knot complements |
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| Tuesday, September 16 | Kai-Uwe Bux, Cornell University Braiding chessboard complexes |
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| Tuesday, September 23 | Tara Brendle, Cornell University Every mapping class group is generated by 3 torsion elements and by 7 involutions |
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| Tuesday, September 30 | Edward Swartz, Cornell University Quotients of spheres by tori |
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| Thursday, October 16 | Indira Chatterji, Cornell University From wall spaces to CAT(0) cube complexes |
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| Tuesday, October 21 | James Belk, Cornell University Forest diagrams for Thompson's group F |
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| Tuesday, October 28 | James Conant, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Pulling apart spheres in 4-space |
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| Thursday, November 6 | Ruth Charney, Brandeis University A new look at the affine braid groups |
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| Thursday, November 13 | Olga Buse, Michigan State University Symplectic and complex deformations |
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| Tuesday, November 18 | Kevin Wortman, Cornell University S-arithmetic lattices and quasi-isometric rigidity |
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| Thursday, November 20 | Inga Johnson, University of Rochester On the degree 2 map of a sphere |
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| Tuesday, December 2 | Lee Mosher, Rutgers University, Newark Teichm�ller theory in outer space |
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| Thursday, February 5 | Kai-Uwe Bux, Cornell University Growth in iterated monodromy groups |
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| Thursday, February 12 | Jean-Francois Lafont, Binghamton University Involutions of negatively curved groups with exotic boundary behavior |
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| Tuesday, February 17 | Indira Chatterji, Cornell University Some groups acting on CAT(0) cube complexes |
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| Tuesday, February 24 | Kevin Wortman, Cornell University Large-scale geometry of discrete subgroups of semisimple Lie groups |
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| Tuesday, March 2 | Peter Kahn, Cornell University Group extensions and symplectic torus bundles |
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| Tuesday, March 9 | Ross Geoghegan, Binghamton University The FP_n conjecture for metabelian groups |
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| Tuesday, March 16 | Dan Margalit, University of Utah Braid groups are almost co-Hopfian |
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| Tuesday, March 30 | Murray Elder, University of St. Andrews (Scotland) Regular, context-free and counter languages of geodesics |
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| Tuesday, April 6 | Saul Schleimer, University of Illinois at Chicago Heegaard splittings and Haken's program |
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| Thursday, April 15 | Will Kazez, University of Georgia Contact structures and convex decompositions |
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| Tuesday, April 20 | Mustafa Korkmaz, Middle East Technical University (Turkey) Homomorphisms from mapping class groups |
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| Thursday, April 22 | Sema Salur, Northwestern University Deformations of calibrated submanifolds |
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| Tuesday, April 27 | G. Christopher Hruska, University of Chicago Lattices in trees and 2-complexes |
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| Tuesday, May 4 | Graham Niblo, University of Southampton, England Hilbert space compression and exactness for groups acting on CAT(0) cube complexes |
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| Tuesday, May 11 | Christophe Pittet, Universite de Marseille Is the Dehn function of SL(4,Z) quadratic? |