Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)

Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)

List of Talks given in 2001-02

Tuesday, September 11   Kai-Uwe Bux, Cornell University
Finiteness properties of Korelli groups
Tuesday, September 18   Ferenc Gerlits, Cornell University
Counting graphs with combinatorial species and Feynmann rules
Tuesday, September 25   G. Christopher Hruska, Cornell University
The relative hyperbolicity of groups with isolated flats
Tuesday, October 2   Arthur Bartels, University of Muenster (Germany)
Groups of finite asymptotic dimension and algebraic K-theory
Thursday, October 11   G. Christopher Hruska, Cornell University
The relative hyperbolicity of groups with isolated flats
Tuesday, October 16   Dmitri Kozlov, KTH Stockholm (Sweden) and the University of Bern (Switzerland)
Combinatorics of resonances
Tuesday, October 23   Sue Whitesides, University of Rochester and Cornell University
Embedding problems for paths and cycles with direction constrained edges
Tuesday, October 30   James Conant, Cornell University
Infinitesimal operations on graphs
Tuesday, November 6   Peter Kahn, Cornell University
Pseudohomology and homology
Tuesday, November 13   Ryan Budney, Cornell University
Electrostatic potentials on configuration spaces: CW decompositions and compactifications
Tuesday, November 20   James Conant, Cornell University
Graph homology, configuration spaces and Vassiliev invariants
Thursday, November 29   Laura Anderson, Binghamton University
Combinatorial construction of bundles
Tuesday, December 4   Kai-Uwe Bux, Cornell University
Finiteness properties of Houghton braid groups
Tuesday, December 11   Ryan Budney, Cornell University
Representations of mapping class groups
Friday, January 25   Peter Ozsvath, Princeton University
Holomorphic disks and invariants of low-dimensional manifolds
Tuesday, February 5   Ryan Budney, Cornell University
The Lawrence-Krammer representation is unitary
Thursday, February 14   Bruce Kleiner, University of Michigan
Euclidean laminations in 3-manifolds
Tuesday, February 19   Martin Bridson, Imperial College, Oxford (England)
Curvature and decision processes
Tuesday, February 26   David Benbennick, Cornell University
Algorithms in knot theory
Tuesday, March 5   Matthew Horak, Cornell University
Ribbon graph subcomplexes of outer space
Tuesday, March 12   Dev Sinha, University of Oregon and Brown University
New perspectives on (self-)linking
Tuesday, March 26   Allen Hatcher, Cornell University
Topological moduli spaces for knots
Tuesday, April 2   Dan Ramras, Cornell University
Connectivity of the coset poset
Tuesday, April 9   Marshall Cohen, Cornell University
The Freiheitsatz
Tuesday, April 16   Tadeusz Januszkiewicz, University of Binghamton
Equivariant cohomology of buildings
Tuesday, April 23   John Hamal Hubbard, Cornell University
A proof of Thurston's hyperbolization theorem for 3-manifolds which fiber over the circle
Tuesday, April 30   G. Christopher Hruska, Cornell University
Convergence groups and isolated flats
Thursday, May 2   Thang Le, University of Buffalo
On quantum and finite type invariants of integral homology 3-spheres