Cornell Math - MATH 752, Spring 2005

MATH 752: Berstein Seminar in Topology (Spring 2005)

Instructor: Karen Vogtmann

Meeting Time & Room

This course is a seminar in which students explore a single topic or series of related topics in topology. The students present the material to the rest of the class, with questions and discussion actively encouraged.

Some topics which might be interesting to focus on include:

• Quasi-isometries, boundaries of groups and spaces, and rigidity phenomena
• The geometry of curve complexes and sphere complexes
• Limit groups
• Delzant and Gromov's work on Kahler groups.

The exact choice of topics is ultimately up to the students who will present the material, and will be determined in more detail at the first class meeting.