Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)
Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)
List of Talks given in 2006-07
| Tuesday, September 5 | Martin Kassabov, Cornell University Cartesian products as profinite completions and representation growth of groups |
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| Tuesday, September 12 | Collin Bleak, Binghamton University and Cornell University Some questions about the dimension of an action |
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| Tuesday, September 19 | Alex Gamburd, University of California at Santa Cruz Uniform spectral gap bounds in SL_2 and SU(2) |
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| Thursday, September 21 | Indira Chatterji, Ohio State University A characterization of hyperbolicity |
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| Tuesday, October 3 | Denis Osin, CCNY Cut points in asymptotic cones of finitely generated groups |
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| Thursday, October 12 | Jim Conant, University of Tennessee Ornate necklaces and the homology of the genus of one mapping class group |
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| Tuesday, October 17 | Jason Manning, SUNY at Buffalo A coarse geometric Dehn filling theorem |
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| Thursday, October 19 | Justin Moore, Boise State University A solution to the L space problem |
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| Tuesday, October 24 | Gabriela Schmithüsen, Universität Karlsruhe (TH) and Cornell University Veech groups and Teichmüller curves of origamis |
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| Tuesday, October 31 | Peter Samuelson, Cornell University On CAT(0) structures for free-by-cyclic groups |
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| Tuesday, November 7 | Christophe Pittet, Université de Marseille and Cornell University Bounded 2-cocycles in Lie groups |
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| Tuesday, November 14 | Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University Outer space for right-angled Artin groups |
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| Tuesday, November 21 | Collin Bleak, Binghamton University and Cornell University Structure theorems for groups of homeomorphisms of the circle |
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| Tuesday, November 28 | Dan Farley, Miami University The action of Thompson's group F on a CAT(0) boundary |
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| Tuesday, December 5 | Peter Brinkmann, CCNY Algorithmically improving train tracks |
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| Thursday, February 1 | Anna Wienhard, University of Chicago Foliated projective structures and Teichmüller components for PSL(4,R) |
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| Tuesday, February 6 | Murray Elder, Stevens Institute of Technology Asymptotic properties of subgroups of Thompson's group F |
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| Thursday, February 8 | Anne Thomas, University of Chicago Lattices acting on polyhedral complexes |
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| Tuesday, February 20 | Andrew Putnam, University of Chicago An infinite presentation of the Torelli group |
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| Tuesday, February 27 | Gabriel Picioroaga, Binghamton University Some properties of exact groups |
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| Tuesday, March 6 | James Parkinson, Cornell University The affine Grassmannian and alcove walks |
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| Tuesday, March 13 | Seonhee Lim, Notre Dame University Volume entropy of hyperbolic buildings |
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| Thursday, March 15 | Alexander Ushakov, Stevens Institute of Technology Algorithmic problems in the Baumslag-Gersten group |
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| Tuesday, March 27 | Martin Hamilton, University of Glasgow Finitary group cohomology and group actions on spheres |
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| Thursday, April 5 | James Belk, Texas A&M University Conjugacy and dynamics in Thompson’s groups |
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| Thursday, April 12 | Genevieve Walsh, Tufts University Commensurability classes of 2-bridge knots |
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| Tuesday, April 17 | Adam Piggott, Tufts University On the automorphisms of a graph product of cyclic groups |
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| Tuesday, April 24 | Marco Varisco, Binghamton University Algebraic K-theory of group rings and topological cyclic homology |
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| Tuesday, May 1 | Matthew G. Brin, Binghamton University Operads, fractions, Thompson groups and categories with multiplication |
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| Thursday, May 3 | Dylan Thurston, Columbia University Combinatorial Heegard-Floer homology for knots via grid diagrams |
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| Wednesday, June 6 | Frank Herrlich, Universität Karlsruhe p-adic Techmüller space and a map to outer space |