Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)
Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)
List of Talks given in 2002-03
| Thursday, September 12 | William Thurston, University of California, Davis When is a three-manifold virtually Haken? |
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| Tuesday, September 17 | Indira Chatterji, Cornell University On and around the Bass conjecture |
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| Tuesday, September 24 | Edward Swartz, Cornell University Arrangements of homotopy spheres: part 1 1/2 |
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| Tuesday, October 1 | James Conant, Cornell University Torsion invariants of knots |
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| Tuesday, October 8 | Tara Brendle, Cornell University On the linearity question for mapping class groups, part II |
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| Friday, October 18 | Kiyoshi Igusa, Brandeis University Combinatorial Miller-Mumford-Morita classes and the Witten-Kontsevich conjecture |
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| Tuesday, October 22 | Tara Brendle, Cornell University On the linearity question for mapping class groups: Part III |
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| Tuesday, October 29 | Dylan Thurston, Harvard University How efficiently do 3-manifolds bound 4-manifolds? |
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| Thursday, October 31 | Hee Oh, Princeton University Uniform exponential growth for linear groups |
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| Tuesday, November 5 | Kai-Uwe Bux, Cornell University Higher generation in braid groups |
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| Thursday, November 14 | James Conant, Cornell University A tour of knot theory from the perspective of the simplest Vassiliev invariant |
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| Tuesday, November 19 | Jean-Francois Lafont, SUNY Binghamton Rigidity results for certain singular spaces |
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| Tuesday, December 3 | Abhijit Champanerkar, Columbia University The next simplest hyperbolic knots |
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| Tuesday, January 28 | Nathan Dunfield, Harvard University 3-manifolds and groups of homeomorphisms of the circle |
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| Tuesday, February 4 | Kai-Uwe Bux, Cornell University An Out(F_n)-analogue for the Johnson homomorphism |
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| Tuesday, February 11 | Indira Chatterji, Cornell University Twisted idempotent conjectures |
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| Tuesday, February 25 | Tara Brendle, Cornell University Relations in the Torelli group |
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| Tuesday, March 4 | Olga Buse, SUNY at Stony Brook From J-holomorphic curves to the topology of symplectomorphism groups |
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| Tuesday, March 11 | Melanie Stein, Trinity College Establishing nonexistence of laminations and foliations in 3-manifolds using group actions on order trees |
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| Tuesday, March 18 | Greg Kuperberg, University of California at Davis Perturbative Chern-Simons invariants are finite type |
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| Tuesday, March 25 | Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign On generic properties of one-relator groups |
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| Tuesday, March 25 | Kevin Wortman, University of Chicago On quasi-isometric rigidity of S-arithmetic classes |
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| Tuesday, April 1 | Matthew Horak, Cornell University Relations among graph complexes |
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| Tuesday, April 8 | James Conant, Cornell University Morita's trace cocycles in H^*[Out(F_n)] |
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| Tuesday, April 15 | Ian Leary, University of Southampton Finiteness conditions and K_0 of group algebras |
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| Tuesday, April 22 | James Belk, Cornell University Almost convex groups |
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| Thursday, April 24 | James Stasheff, University of Pennsylvania Poisson sigma models and L_infinity algebras |
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| Tuesday, April 29 | Kim Ruane, Tufts University Boundaries of certain 2-dimensional CAT(0) groups |
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| Tuesday, April 29 | Chris Leininger, Columbia University On groups generated by two positive multi-twists |