Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar - Fall 2006
Usually meets Wednesday at 3:00 pm in SEO 636.
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August 28
(3:00 pm; SEO 512)
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Steve Hurder
UIC |
Organizational Meeting |
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August 30
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September 6
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September 11
(3:00 pm; SEO 512)
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Steve Hurder
UIC |
Riemannian foliations with finite transverse LS category |
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September 13
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September 18
(3:00 pm; SEO 512)
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Jason Deblois
University of Texas, Austin & UIC |
Totally geodesic surfaces in rational homology knot manifolds |
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September 20
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September 25
(3:00 pm; SEO 512)
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Patrick Hooper
Northwestern University |
Billiards near triangles with the lattice property |
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September 27
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October 4
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October 9
(3:00 pm; SEO 512)
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Joseph Masters
SUNY Buffalo |
One-relator groups and Heegaard splittings |
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October 11
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October 16
(3:00 pm; SEO 512)
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Chris Cashen
UIC |
Quasi-isometries Among Tubular Groups |
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October 18
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October 23
(3:00 pm; SEO 512)
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Anna Wienhard
U Chicago |
Representations of Surface Groups |
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October 25
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October 30
(3:00 pm; SEO 512)
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Kari Ragnarsson
Northwestern University |
Homotopy classifications of p-completed classifying spaces. |
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November 1
(3:00 pm; SEO 427)
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Moulay Tahar Benameur
University of Metz, France |
Homotopy invariance of Haefliger signature |
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November 6
(3:00 pm; SEO 512)
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Roman Sauer
U Chicago |
Amenable Covers, Minimal Volume and L^2-Betti numbers of aspherical manifolds |
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November 8
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November 13
(3:00 pm; SEO 512)
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David Fisher
Indiana University |
Superrigidity for actions on Hilbert manifolds |
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November 15
(3:00 pm; SEO 427)
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Igor Rivin
Temple University |
Random Walks on groups and irreducibility of polynomials, matrices, and automorphisms. |
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November 22
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November 29
(4:00 pm; SEO 427)
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Miklos Abert
University of Chicago |
Tree actions and cost of group actions |
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December 6
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