Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)
Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)
List of Talks given in 1999-2000
| Tuesday, September 7 | Dani Wise, Cornell University Eventually injective endomorphisms |
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| Tuesday, September 14 | Chris Hruska, Cornell University Ladders, towers and the B. B. Newman spelling theorem |
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| Tuesday, September 21 | Andrzej Zuk, Cornell University On an isoperimetric inequality for infinite finitely generated groups |
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| Tuesday, September 28 | John Meier, Cornell University Tame combings and variations on Cannon's almost convexity |
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| Tuesday, October 5 | William Dunbar, Cornell University Orbit spaces of crystallographic groups |
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| Tuesday, October 19 | Ed Swartz, Cornell University Finite linear quotients of spheres |
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| Tuesday, October 19 | Edward Swartz, Cornell University Finite linear quotients of spheres |
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| Thursday, October 21 | Martin Bridson, Oxford University The grammatical complexity of groups and manifolds |
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| Tuesday, October 26 | Allen Hatcher, Cornell University 3-manifolds as tinkertoys |
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| Tuesday, November 2 | Marshall Cohen, Cornell University Klyachko's theorem: car crashes and equations over groups |
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| Tuesday, November 9 | Marshall Cohen, Cornell University Klyachko's theorem: car crashes and equations over groups (part II) |
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| Tuesday, November 16 | Tom Stiadle, Wells College Generalized Waldhausen K-theory and homology with stratified coefficients |
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| Tuesday, November 23 | Dani Wise, Cornell University Negative curvature and residual finiteness |
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| Tuesday, November 30 | Boris Goldfarb, SUNY at Albany Rigidity and the large scale |
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| Thursday, January 27 | Richard Schwartz, University of Maryland Circle quotients and string art |
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| Tuesday, February 15 | Marshall Cohen, Cornell University Long-standing questions on Whitehead torsion |
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| Tuesday, February 22 | Marshall Cohen, Cornell University Group extensions and unsolved problems in Whitehead torsion II |
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| Tuesday, February 29 | Peter Abramenko, University of Bielefeld and Cornell University On opposition in spherical buildings |
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| Tuesday, March 7 | John Hubbard, Cornell University On the topology and homology of Farey blowups |
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| Tuesday, March 14 | John Hubbard, Cornell University On the topology and homology of Farey blowups II |
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| Thursday, March 16 | Dan Farley, SUNY at Binghamton Finiteness and CAT(0) properties of diagram groups |
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| Tuesday, March 28 | Edward Swartz, Cornell University Logic meets Riemannian geometry |
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| Tuesday, April 4 | Ferenc Gerlits, Cornell University Kontsevich's graph homology |
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| Tuesday, April 11 | Peter Kahn, Cornell University When is a symplectic circle action Hamiltonian? |
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| Tuesday, April 18 | Michael Shapiro, Cornell University Dehn's algorithm revisited |
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| Tuesday, April 25 | Chris Hruska, Cornell University Small cancellation groups are automatic |
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| Thursday, April 27 | Robert Fisher, Idaho State University and Cornell University An alternative view of connections in Riemannian geometry |
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| Tuesday, May 2 | Ryan Budney, Cornell University Mapping class groups of spherical 3-manifolds |