Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)
Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar (MATH 755-756)
List of Talks given in 2005-06
| Tuesday, September 6 | Francesco Matucci, Firenze and Cornell University The simultaneous conjugacy problem for Thompson's group F is solvable |
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| Tuesday, September 20 | Edward Swartz, Cornell University f-vectors and manifolds |
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| Tuesday, September 27 | Craig Johnson, Marywood & Cornell University A computer search for free actions on orientable surfaces |
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| Tuesday, October 4 | Jason Behrstock, University of Utah Relative hyperbolicity and the mapping class group |
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| Tuesday, October 18 | Ross Geoghegan, SUNY at Binghamton Associativity and Thompson's group |
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| Tuesday, October 25 | Mikhail Ershov, Yale University and IAS Finite presentations of pro-p groups and Lie algebras |
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| Tuesday, November 1 | Matthew Horak, Trinity College Group actions on order trees |
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| Tuesday, November 8 | Marc Lackenby, Oxford University Counting covering spaces and subgroups in dimension 3 |
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| Monday, November 14 | Michael Handel, CUNY The commensurator group of Out(F_n) |
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| Tuesday, November 22 | Andrzej Zuk, University of Paris 7 & Institute for Advanced Study Automata groups |
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| Tuesday, November 29 | Collin Bleak, SUNY at Binghamton Solvability in groups of piecewise-linear homeomorphisms of the unit interval |
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| Tuesday, December 6 | Seonhee Lim, Yale University Minimal volume entropy on graphs and buildings |
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| Thursday, January 26 | Ruth Charney, Brandeis Outer space for right-angled Artin groups |
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| Tuesday, January 31 | Pedro Ontaneda, SUNY Binghamton Ricci flow and negative curvature in higher dimensions |
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| Thursday, February 9 | Josep Burillo, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya The braided Thompson's group |
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| Tuesday, February 14 | James Conant, University of Tennessee at Knoxville The rational unstable homology of automorphism groups of free groups |
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| Tuesday, February 21 | Tom Stiadle, Wells College and Cornell University Characterizing centers of graphs of groups |
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| Tuesday, February 28 | Tara Brendle, Louisiana State University The Johnson filtration of the mapping class group and Heegaard splittings of 3-manifolds |
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| Thursday, March 9 | Zoran Sunik, Texas A&M University Hanoi towers, Schreier graphs, iterated monodromy groups and Julia sets |
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| Tuesday, March 14 | Donald Cartwright, University of Sydney Groups acting simply transitively on the vertices of a building |
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| Thursday, March 16 | Udo Baumgartner, University of Newcastle, Australia Flat rank as a geometric invariant of totally disconnected, locally compact groups |
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| Tuesday, March 28 | Vladimir Shpilrain, City College of New York Densities in free and free abelian groups |
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| Thursday, March 30 | Nikolay Nikolov, Oxford University Counting primes, groups, and manifolds |
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| Tuesday, April 4 | Craig Johnson, Marywood & Cornell University An obstruction to embedding a simplicial n-complex into a 2n-manifold |
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| Tuesday, April 18 | Francesco Matucci, Firenze and Cornell University On trivalent directed graphs and conjugacy classes of Thompson's group F |
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| Tuesday, May 2 | Stefan Wenger, New York University Isoperimetric inequalities of Euclidean and sub-Euclidean type in metric spaces |