Temple University
Geometry Seminar


  Contact: Dave Futer or Igor Rivin

The Geometry Seminar meets on Tuesdays, 2:40 - 3:30 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 3:30 in the Faculty Lounge, adjacent to Room 617.
 
 
 

Schedule of Talks - Spring 2009
February 10 Aaron Magid
University of Michigan		 The topology of deformation spaces of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
February 17 Chris Atkinson
University of Illinois, Chicago		 Volume estimates for hyperbolic Coxeter polyhedra
February 24 Louis Theran
University of Massachusetts		 Combinatorial genericity and minimal rigidity
March 17 Robert Lipshitz
Columbia University		 An introduction to bordered Floer homology
Monday
March 23		 Justin Malestein
University of Chicago		 On the self-intersections of curves deep in the lower central series of a surface group
March 24
2:00 PM 		Sergio Fenley
Florida State University		 Rigidity of pseudo-Anosov flows transverse to R-covered foliations
March 24
3:15 PM 		Tao Li
Boston College		 A quadratic bound on the number of boundary slopes of essential surfaces
March 24
4:30 PM 		Ara Basmajian
Hunter College, CUNY		 Half-turns and commutators acting on hyperbolic space
April 7 Roland Roeder
SUNY Stony Brook		 Computing arithmetic invariants for hyperbolic reflection groups
Seminar schedules from past semesters
Fall 2008