Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)
Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)
List of Talks given in 1996-97
| Tue., September 3 | Wolfgang Metzler, University of Frankfurt |
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| Tue., September 10 | Kazem Mahdavi, SUNY at Potsdam Automatic groups and relatively free groups |
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| Mon., September 16 | Kazem Mahdavi, Cornell University & SUNY at Potsdam Automatic groups and relativity free groups II |
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| Tue., September 17 | Peter Kahn, Cornell University Seiberg-Witten theory: an overview |
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| Mon., September 23 | Allen Hatcher, Cornell University The Jaco-Shalen/Johannson splitting of 3-manifolds |
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| Tue., September 24 | Roger Livesay, Cornell University Matveev's proof of the Rubenstein-Thompson algorithm for recognizing S^3 |
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| Mon., September 30 | Roger Alperin, San Jose State University and Cornell University Remarks on triangles of groups |
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| Mon., October 7 | Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University The JSJ splitting for finitely presented groups, I |
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| Tue., October 8 | Roger Livesay, Cornell University Matveev's proof of the Rubenstein-Thompson algorithm for recognizing S^3 |
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| Tue., October 15 | Roger Livesay, Cornell University Matveev's proof of the Rubenstein-Thompson algorithm for recognizing S^3 |
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| Mon., October 21 | Laurent Soloff-Coste, Toulouse and CNRS Isoperimetry on groups |
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| Mon., October 28 | Marshall Cohen, Cornell University The JSJ splitting for finitely presented groups, II |
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| Tue., October 29 | Roger Livesay, Cornell University Matveev's proof of the Rubenstein-Thompson algorithm for recognizing S^3 |
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| Mon., November 4 | Noel Brady, Cornell University The geometry of certain kernel subgroups of right-angled Artin groups |
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| Tue., November 5 | Harel Barzilai, Cornell University Patched handlebodies and homological finiteness of mapping class groups |
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| Mon., November 11 | Marshall Cohen, Cornell University The JSJ splitting for finitely presented groups, III |
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| Mon., November 18 | Mark Feighn, Rutgers University at Newark The solvable subgroups of Out(F_N) |
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| Tue., November 19 | Noel Brady, Cornell University The geometry of certain kernel subgroups of right-angled Artin groups, II |
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| Mon., November 25 | Susan Hermiller, New Mexico State University Isoperimetric functions and solvable groups |
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| Tue., November 26 | Mark Brittenham, Vassar College Essential laminations are everywhere |
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| Mon., December 2 | Noel Brady, Cornell University The JSJ splitting for finitely presented groups, IV |
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| Tue., December 3 | Noel Brady, Cornell University Some finiteness properties of kernels of right-angled Artin groups, III |
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| Tue., December 10 | Noel Brady, Cornell University The JSJ splitting for finitely presented groups, V |
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| Tue., December 10 | Takashi Tokieda, McGill University Wiggling of curves and null sets of symplectic capacity |
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| Tue., January 28 | Noel Brady, Cornell University The JSJ splitting for finitely presented groups, VI |
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| Thu., January 30 | Noel Brady, Cornell University Morse theory and finiteness properties of groups |
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| Tue., February 4 | Marshall Cohen, Cornell University The simplicial complex of graphs of groups |
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| Thu., February 6 | Marshall Cohen, Cornell University The simplicial complex of graphs of groups, II |
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| Tue., February 11 | Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University Whitehead's algorithm for surface automorphisms |
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| Tue., February 18 | Cynthia Hog-Angeloni, Cornell University & Frankfurt University Non-efficient groups and homotopy equivalent 2-complexes |
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| Tue., February 25 | Harel Barzilai, Cornell University Contractible disk complexes for finiteness properties of mapping class groups |
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| Thu., February 27 | Bobby Kleinberg, Cornell University Train tracks and zipping sequences for pseudo-Anosov braids |
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| Thu., March 6 | Bobby Kleinberg, Cornell University Train tracks and zipping sequences for pseudo-Anosov braids, II |
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| Tue., March 11 | Ryan Budney, Cornell University Unoriented cobordism theory |
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| Tue., March 25 | Cynthia Hog-Angeloni, Cornell University & Frankfurt University Comparison of 2-complexes and the generalized Andrews-Curtis conjecture |
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| Tue., April 8 | Allen Hatcher, Cornell University Introduction to the topology of hyperplane arrangements |
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| Tue., April 15 | Allen Hatcher, Cornell University Introduction to the topology of hyperplane arrangements, II |
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| Thu., April 24 | Ross Geoghegan, Binghamton University Actions of discrete groups on non-positively curved spaces |
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| Tue., April 29 | Persi Diaconis, Harvard University Random walk and hyperplane arrangements |
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| Thu., May 1 | Arkady Berenstein, Cornell University Combinatorics of hyperplane arrangements |