Temple University
Geometry Seminar



  Contact: Dave Futer or Igor Rivin

The Geometry Seminar meets on Tuesdays, 1:10 - 2:00 pm in Rm. 617 on the 6th floor of Wachman Hall. Click here for directions to the Department of Mathematics. After the talk, we have tea starting at 3:00 in the Faculty Lounge, adjacent to Room 617.
 
 
 

Schedule of Talks - Fall 2008
September 30 Peter Storm
University of Pennsylvania
Finding faithful linear representations with dense image
October 7 Josh Sabloff
Haverford College
Symplectic rigidity for Lagrangian cobordisms
October 28 Xiaobo Liu
Columbia University
Quantization of Teichmuller space
November 4 Ilya Kofman
College of Staten Island
A new twist on Lorenz links
November 11 Roland van der Veen
University of Amsterdam
The Jones polynomial of embedded graphs: Geometry and combinatorics
November 18 Shea Vela-Vick
University of Pennsylvania
Transverse invariants and bindings of open books
November 25 Feng Luo
Rutgers University
Remarks on ideal triangulations of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
December 2 Clay Shonkweiler
University of Pennsylvania
Poincare duality angles for Riemannian manifolds with boundary