Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)
Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)
List of Talks given in 1998-99
| Wednesday, October 7 | David Cruickshank, University of Glasgow New invariants for groups |
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| Friday, October 16 | Benson Farb, University of Chicago Discrete groups acting on compact manifolds |
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| Wednesday, November 4 | Martin Lustig, Bochum Free group automorphisms of exponential growth |
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| Thursday, November 5 | Karoly Bezdek, Cornell University The isoperimetric problems of Voronoi cells in unit ball packings of E^d |
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| Thursday, November 12 | F. T. Farrell, Binghamton University Calculating Whitehead groups (or at least trying to) |
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| Tuesday, February 9 | Steve Zdancewic, Cornell University Topology in programming language semantics |
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| Thursday, February 11 | Alan Durfee, Mt. Holyoke College Polynomial knots |
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| Tuesday, February 16 | Chris Hruska, Cornell University The B. B. Newman spelling theorem |
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| Thursday, February 25 | Jim West, Cornell University Introduction to controlled topology II |
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| Tuesday, March 2 | Jim West, Cornell University Introduction to controlled topology III |
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| Thursday, April 15 | Ilya Kapovich, Rutgers University On mapping tori of endomorphisms of free groups |
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| Tuesday, April 20 | Ryan Budney, Cornell University Diffeomorphism groups of manifolds |
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| Tuesday, April 27 | Peter Abramenko, University of Bielefeld Some group theoretic applications of buildings |
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| Thursday, April 29 | Peter Abramenko, University of Bielefeld On some generalizations of the Solomon-Tits theorem |