Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)
Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)
List of Talks given in 2000-01
| Tuesday, September 5 | Ryan Budney, Cornell University A faithful representation of the mapping class group of the genus two surface |
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| Tuesday, September 12 | Chris Hruska, Cornell University Quasiconvexity in nonpositively curved spaces with isolated flats |
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| Thursday, September 14 | John Meakin, University of Nebraska at Lincoln Geodesics in surface groups |
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| Tuesday, September 19 | James Conant, Cornell University An introduction to Vassiliev invariants |
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| Thursday, September 21 | James Conant, Cornell University An introduction to Vassiliev invariants II |
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| Tuesday, September 26 | James Conant, Cornell University Finite type invariants, gropes and claspers |
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| Tuesday, October 3 | Zoran Sunik, Cornell University Periodic groups of tree automorphisms with intermediate word growth |
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| Thursday, October 5 | Laurent Bartholdi, University of Geneva Spectra of fractal groups and parabolic subgroups |
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| Friday, October 13 | An-Min Li, Sichuan University (China) Gluing formula for Gromov-Witten invariants and applications |
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| Tuesday, October 17 | Zoran Sunik, Cornell University Periodic groups of tree automorphisms with intermediate word growth II |
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| Tuesday, October 24 | Ryan Budney, Cornell University Mapping class groups of genus two 3-manifolds |
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| Tuesday, October 31 | Marshall Cohen, Cornell University The surjectivity problem for one-generator one-relator extensions of torsion-free groups |
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| Tuesday, November 7 | Sema Salur, Cornell University The deformation theory of special Lagrangian submanifolds |
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| Tuesday, November 14 | John Meier, Binghamton University and Lafayette College Why $P\Sigma_4$ is simply connected at infinity |
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| Thursday, November 30 | Laura Anderson, Texas A&M University Matroid bundles |
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| Tuesday, February 6 | Zoran Sunik, Cornell University Branch groups |
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| Friday, February 9 | Weimin Chen, SUNY at Stony Brook Symplectic structures on S^1 x M^3 |
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| Tuesday, February 13 | Christopher Hruska, Cornell University CAT(0) groups with well-defined boundaries |
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| Tuesday, February 20 | James Conant, Cornell University Finite type invariants in different categories |
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| Tuesday, February 27 | Christophe Pittet, Cornell University Quadratic Dehn functions |
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| Tuesday, March 6 | Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University Quotients of automorphism groups of free groups |
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| Tuesday, March 13 | Ryan Budney, Cornell University Linear representations of mapping class groups of surfaces |
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| Tuesday, March 27 | James Conant, Cornell University A transfinite induction in the theory of knots |
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| Tuesday, April 3 | Enric Ventura, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Spain) A description of auto fixed subgroups in free groups |
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| Tuesday, April 10 | Benoit Chaluleau, University of Toulouse (France) Examples of homogeneous Riemannian manifolds not quasi-isometric to any finitely-generated group |
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| Thursday, April 19 | Abby Thompson, University of California at Davis Tunnel number one knots |
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| Thursday, April 26 | Tara Brendle, Columbia University On the linearity problem for mapping class groups |
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| Tuesday, May 8 | Konstantin Rybnikov, Cornell University Gain graphs and the Maxwell-Cremona correspondence |