Geometry-Topology Seminar
Contact:
Dave Futer or Igor RivinThe Seminar usually takes place on Tuesdays at 5:00 PM in Room 617 on
the sixth floor of Wachman
Hall.
Please note the new time!
More information on talks, speaker, the Geometry group, and anything
else you care about can be found at
our blog.
Schedule of Talks - Spring 2012
- Tuesday, January 17, 3:40 PM (special undergraduate talk):
Henry Segerman,
University of Melbourne,
Some mathematical sculptures.
- Tuesday, January 17, 5:00 PM:
Jean Sun,
Yale University,
Growth, projections and bounded generation of
mapping class groups.
- Tuesday, January 24, 5:00 PM:
Tian Yang,
Rutgers University,
The skein algebra and the decorated
Teichmuller space.
- Tuesday, January 31, 4:30 PM:
Harold Sultan,
Columbia University,
Asymptotic geometry of Teichmuller space and divergence.
- Tuesday, January 31, 5:45 PM: Inanc
Baykur, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Surface bundles and Lefschetz
fibrations.
- Tuesday, February 14, 4:15 PM:
Thomas Church,
Stanford University,
Representation theory and homological stability.
- Tuesday, February 14, 5:30 PM:
Mark Sapir,
Vanderbilt University,
Asymptotic properties of mapping class groups.
- Tuesday, February 21, 5:00 PM:
Thomas Koberda,
Harvard University,
Mapping class groups and finite covers.
- Tuesday, February 28, 4:15 PM (PATCH seminar, joint with Bryn Mawr, Haverford,
and Penn):
Morwen Thistlethwaite, University of Tennessee, Finding and deforming representations of 3-manifold groups. - Tuesday, February 28, 5:30 PM (PATCH seminar, joint with Bryn Mawr, Haverford,
and Penn):
Nancy Hingston, The College of New Jersey and IAS, Loop products and dynamics. - Tuesday, March 6:
no seminar (spring break)
- Tuesday, March 13, 5:00 PM:
Darlan Girao,
Universidade Federal do Ceara,
Rank gradient of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
- Thursday, March 15, 4:30 PM: (PATCH
seminar, at Penn,
DRL room
4C8):
Eli Grigsby, Boston College, A relationship between representation-theoretic and Floer-theoretic braid invariants - Thursday, March 15, 5:45 PM: (PATCH
seminar, at Penn, DRL room
4C8):
Gerard Misiolek, Notre Dame University and IAS, Right-invariant metrics on diffeomorphism groups - Tuesday, March 20, 5:00 PM:
Genevieve Walsh,
Tufts University,
Right-angled Coxeter groups and acute triangulations.
- Tuesday, March 27, 5:00 PM:
Igor Rivin,
Temple University,
How many ways can you fiber a manifold?.
- Tuesday, April 3, 5:00 PM:
Scott Wolpert,
University of Maryland,
Weil-Petersson Riemannian and symplectic geometry.
- Tuesday, April 10: no seminar (Grosswald lectures)
- Tuesday, April 17, 5:00 PM:
Jeff Brock,
Brown University,
Fat, exhausted integer homology spheres.
- Friday, April 20, 3:00 PM: (PATCH seminar, at Haverford
College, KINSC H108)
Liam Watson, UCLA, L-Spaces and Left-Orderability. - Friday, April 20, 4:30 PM: (PATCH seminar, at Haverford
College, KINSC H108)
David Gay, University of Georgia, Using Morse 2-Functions to Trisect 4-manifolds. - Tuesday, April 24, 3:30 PM (special
undergraduate talk):
Joel David Hamkins,
City University of New York,
Fun and paradox with large numbers, logic
and infinity.
Past Geometry-Topology Schedules
Fall 2011 | Spring 2011 | Fall 2010 | Spring 2010 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2009 | Fall 2008