Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
List of Talks given in 2009-10
| Tuesday, September 8 | Jason Manning, University at Buffalo Residual finiteness and separability of quasiconvex subgroups |
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| Tuesday, September 22 | Timothy Riley, Cornell University Hydra groups |
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| Thursday, October 8 | Will Dison, University of Bristol Dehn functions of Bestvina-Brady groups |
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| Thursday, October 15 | Ana Rita Pires, MIT Symplectic origami |
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| Thursday, October 22 | Stephen Wang, Bucknell University Surface groups, Artin groups, and their representations |
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| Tuesday, October 27 | Fred Cohen, University of Rochester Generalized moment-angle complexes |
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| Tuesday, November 3 | Adam Sikora, University at Buffalo Character varieties |
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| Tuesday, November 10 | Matt Rathbun, University of California at Davis High distance knots in any 3-manifold |
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| Thursday, November 12 | Kim Ruane, Tufts University Automorphism groups of graph products |
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| Tuesday, November 17 | Dmytro Savchuk, Binghamton University Automata generating free products of groups of order 2 |
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| Tuesday, December 1 | Matt Brin, Binghamton University Shavgulidze’s paper on the amenability of Thompson’s group F |
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| Tuesday, January 26 | Evgeny Shavgulidze, Moscow State University About amenability of subgroups of the group of diffeomorphisms of the interval |
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| Tuesday, February 2 | Eran Nevo, Cornell University Commensurizer growth |
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| Tuesday, February 9 | Jason Manning, University at Buffalo Virtually geometric words and Whitehead’s algorithm |
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| Tuesday, February 16 | Bogdan Petrenko, SUNY Brockport On the smallest number of generators and the probability of generating an algebra |
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| Tuesday, February 23 | Kelly Delp, Buffalo State College The marked length spectrum of a real projective manifold or orbifold |
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| Tuesday, March 2 | Allen Hatcher, Cornell University The Madsen-Weiss theorem |
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| Tuesday, March 9 | James Conant, University of Tennessee The cohomology of Out(F_n) and the Eichler-Shimura isomorphism |
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| Tuesday, March 30 | Martin Kassabov, Cornell University Bounding the residual finiteness of free groups |
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| Tuesday, April 6 | William Thurston, Cornell University Approximately finite groups |
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| Tuesday, April 13 | Eduardo Martinez Pedroza, McMaster University Separation of quasiconvex subgroups |
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| Tuesday, April 20 | Owen Baker, Cornell University The Jacobian map on outer space |
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| Tuesday, April 27 | Keith Jones, Binghamton University Connectivity properties for groups acting on locally finite trees |
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| Tuesday, May 4 | Victor Kostyuk, Cornell University An outer space for 2-dimensional right-angled Artin groups |