Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar - Fall 2008
Usually meets Wednesday at 3:00 pm in SEO 636.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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August 21
(4:00 pm; SEO 427)
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Zhenqi Li
|
Equivariant Minimal Immersions from $S^3$ into $CP^n$ |
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August 27
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Inessa Epstein
Caltech |
Measurable subgroups and orbit inequivalent actions |
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September 3
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September 8
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Mark O'Brien
UIC |
Actions of right-angled Coxeter groups on CAT(0) spaces |
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September 10
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September 15
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Peter Shalen
UIC |
(non)-Units in algebraic number fields, and Margulis numbers of hyperbolic 3-manifolds |
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September 17
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Jason Manning
University at Buffalo |
Combination and separation in relatively hyperbolic groups |
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September 22
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Shinpei Baba
UC Davis |
Complex projective structures with Schottky holonomy |
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September 24
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September 29
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Ben McReynolds
University of Chicago |
Genus spectrum of a hyperbolic 3-manifold |
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October 1
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October 6
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Misha Belolipetsky
Durham University |
Counting arithmetic surfaces and 3-manifolds |
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October 8
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October 14
(2:00 pm; SEO 636)
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Karen Vogtmann
Cornell University |
Actions of automorphisms of free groups on acyclic manifolds and homology spheres |
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October 15
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October 20
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Ian Biringer
University of Chicago |
Geometry and rank of closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds. |
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October 20
(4:00 pm; SEO 712)
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Kari Ragnarsson
DePaul University |
Encoding fusion in the double Burnside ring |
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October 22
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October 27
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Jan Kiwi
PUC Santiago, Chile |
Puiseux series dynamics and complex dynamics |
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October 29
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November 3
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Chris Atkinson
UIC / UC Berkeley |
Volume estimates for hyperbolic Coxeter polyhedra |
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November 5
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November 10
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Yitwah Cheung
San Francisco State |
Nonergodic Directions in a Rational Billiard |
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November 12
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Ana Rechtman
Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon |
A Følner foliation that is not amenable |
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November 17
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Steve Hurder
UIC |
Essential solenoids and Cheeger-Simons invariants |
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November 19
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Kal Nanes
Northwestern University |
On the ergodicity of partially hyperbolic group actions |
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November 24
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Nathan Dunfield
UIUC |
Increasing the number of fibered faces of arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds |
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November 26
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Benjamin Schmidt
University of Chicago |
A conjecture about geodesic chords |
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December 1
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Patrick Hooper
Northwestern |
Grid graphs and the lattice property |
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December 3
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