Graduate Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar - Spring 2015
Usually meets Monday at 4:00 pm in SEO 612.
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January 12
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January 19
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No seminar
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Martin Luther King Day |
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January 21
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Edgar A. Bering IV
UIC |
Organizational Meeting |
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January 26
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January 28
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Edgar A. Bering IV
UIC |
Volume & Bounded Cohomology I: Characteristic numbers of 3-manifolds, the Gromov norm, and Mostow rigidity. |
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February 2
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February 4
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Edgar A. Bering IV
UIC |
Volume & Bounded Cohomology II: Measured homology and Thurston's Proof of Mostow rigidity. |
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February 9
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February 11
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Janis Lazovskis
UIC |
Curvature of principal bundles and their Euler classes |
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February 16
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February 18
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Jake Herndon
UIC |
Introduction to Gromov's Bounded Cohomology |
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February 23
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February 25
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Daniel Ingebretson
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Intro to Bounded Cohomology, Part II |
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March 2
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March 9
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March 11
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Khashayar Sartipi
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Estimate From Above for Simplicial Volume |
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March 16
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March 23
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No seminar
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Spring Break |
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March 30
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April 1
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Khashayar Sartipi
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Estimate From Above for Simplicial Volume (2) |
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April 6
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April 8
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Edgar A. Bering IV
UIC |
What is Outer Space? |
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April 13
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April 15
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Mike Cantrell
UIC |
Subadditive Ergodic Theorem for Finitely Generated Nilpotent Groups |
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April 20
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April 22
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Cloie McClellan
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Ordering the Braid Group |
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April 27
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