Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
List of Talks given in 2008-09
| Tuesday, September 9 | Lucas Sabalka, University of California at Davis Navigating blindly |
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| Tuesday, September 16 | Biao Wang, Cornell University Foliations for quasi-Fuchsian 3-manifolds |
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| Tuesday, September 23 | Jeremie Brieussel, Cornell University Intermediate and non-uniform growth of groups |
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| Tuesday, September 30 | Ruth Charney, Brandeis University Automorphism groups of right-angled Artin groups |
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| Thursday, October 9 | Gabriela Schmithüsen, Universität Karlsruhe (TH) Origamis in outer space |
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| Tuesday, October 21 | Jeremie Brieussel, Cornell University Groups of nonuniform growth and questions of amenability |
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| Tuesday, October 28 | Emanuele Delucchi, Binghamton University “Garside-type” models for complements of arrangements of hyperplanes |
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| Thursday, October 30 | Martin Bridson, University of Oxford Subgroups of direct products of surface, free and limit groups |
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| Tuesday, November 4 | Talia Fernós, UCLA Property (T) and friends |
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| Thursday, November 6 | Diane Vavrichek, Binghamton University Quasi-isometry invariant commensurizer subgroups |
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| Tuesday, November 18 | Eugene Lerman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Prequantization of orbifolds |
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| Thursday, November 20 | Angela Kubena Barnhill, Northwestern University Density of commensurators of uniform lattices in right-angled buildings |
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| Tuesday, December 2 | Helen Wong, Bowdoin College The mapping class group, Heegard splittings, and quantum invariants for 3-manifolds |
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| Tuesday, December 9 | Misha Ershov, University of Virginia Property (T) for elementary linear groups over associative rings |
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| Tuesday, January 27 | Justin Moore, Cornell University Fast growth in Følner sets for Thompson’s group F |
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| Tuesday, February 10 | Max Horn, Technische Universität Darmstadt and Cornell University Involutions of groups with twin BN-pair |
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| Tuesday, February 17 | Pierre Py, University of Chicago Quasi-morphisms and area-preserving homeomorphisms |
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| Tuesday, February 24 | Ross Geoghegan, Binghamton University Subgroups of Thompson’s group F |
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| Tuesday, March 3 | Eran Nevo, Cornell University Using the Van Kampen obstruction |
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| Thursday, March 12 | Jim Conant, University of Tennessee Quasi Lie algebras and concordance invariants of links |
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| Thursday, March 26 | Amir Mohammadi, Yale University Unipotent flows in positive characteristic and applications |
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| Tuesday, March 31 | Tim Riley, University of Bristol How wild can a group with a quadratic Dehn function be? |
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| Tuesday, April 7 | Martin Kassabov, Cornell University Subspace arrangements and property T |
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| Tuesday, April 14 | Biao Wang, Cornell University Minimal surfaces in quasi-Fuchsian 3-manifolds |
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| Tuesday, April 21 | Adam Piggott, Bucknell College Normal forms for automorphisms of groups |
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| Tuesday, April 28 | Claire Wladis, CUNY Subgroups and distortion in the generalized Thompson groups |
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| Wednesday, May 6 | Jane Gilman, Rutgers University (Newark) Continued fractions, palindromes, and PSL(2,C) discreteness criteria |