Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)
Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)
List of Talks given in 2004-05
| Tuesday, September 7 | Brendan Owens, Cornell University A generalization of a theorem of Elkies |
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| Tuesday, September 14 | Martin Kassabov, Cornell University Computing Kazhdan constants |
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| Tuesday, September 21 | Dan Margalit, University of Utah Weil-Petersson isometries are mapping classes |
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| Tuesday, September 28 | Jason Behrstock, Columbia University Asymptotic geometry of the mapping class group and Teichm�ller space |
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| Tuesday, October 5 | Tara Brendle, Cornell University Commensurations of the Johnson kernel |
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| Tuesday, October 19 | Christophe Pittet, Universit� de Marseille Random walks on compactly generated groups |
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| Tuesday, October 26 | Azer Akhmedov, University of California, Santa Barbara Quasi-isometric rigidity in group varieties |
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| Tuesday, October 26 | Martin Bridson, Imperial College, London On the geometry and complexity of balanced presentations of groups |
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| Tuesday, November 2 | Nathalie Wahl, University of Aarhus (Denmark) Mapping class groups and automorphisms of free groups |
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| Tuesday, November 9 | Indira Chatterji, Cornell University On a characterization of hyperbolic spaces |
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| Tuesday, November 16 | Aaron Heap, University of Rochester Bordism invariants of the mapping class group |
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| Tuesday, November 23 | Walter Neumann, Columbia University Three-manifolds of splice type |
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| Tuesday, November 30 | David Rosenthal, St. John's University On the algebraic K- and L-theory of word hyperbolic groups |
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| Thursday, December 2 | Martin Scharlemann, University of California, Santa Barbara Proximity in the curve complex: boundary reduction and bicompressible surfaces |
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| Friday, February 4 | Dylan Thurston, Harvard University How efficiently do 3-manifolds bound 4-manifolds? |
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| Tuesday, February 8 | Martin Kassabov, Cornell University New examples of groups with property tau |
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| Tuesday, February 15 | Kevin Wortman, Cornell University An infinite solvable group with small quasi-isometry group |
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| Tuesday, March 1 | Joe Coffey, New York University Failure of parametric H-principle for maps with prescribed Jacobian |
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| Tuesday, March 8 | Alireza Salehi-Golsefidy, Yale University Lattices of minimum covolume in classical Chevalley groups over F_q(1/t) |
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| Tuesday, March 15 | Tim Riley, Yale University Intrinsic versus extrinsic diameter in finitely presented groups |
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| Tuesday, March 29 | Martin Kassabov, Cornell University Symmetric groups and expanders |
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| Tuesday, April 5 | Joseph Masters, SUNY at Buffalo Quasi-Fuchsian surfaces in hyperbolic knot manifolds |
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| Tuesday, April 12 | Gregory Bell, Pennsylvania State University Asymptotic dimension of groups |
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| Thursday, April 21 | Angela Barnhill, Ohio State University Global fixed points for actions of Coxeter groups on CAT(0) spaces |
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| Tuesday, April 26 | James Belk, Cornell University The Grigorchuk group |
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| Thursday, April 28 | Mark Sapir, Vanderbilt Hilbert space compression |
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| Thursday, May 5 | Dan Margalit, University of Utah Finiteness properties of the Torelli group for Out(F_3) |