Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar - Fall 2009
Usually meets Wednesday at 3:00 pm in SEO 636.
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August 24
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Steve Hurder
UIC |
Organizational Meeting |
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August 26
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September 2
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Alexander Lytchak
Universitaet Bonn, Germany |
Scalar curvature of singular spaces |
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September 9
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September 16
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September 21
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Peter B. Shalen
UIC |
Margulis numbers and algebraic number fields |
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September 23
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September 28
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Steve Hurder
UIC |
Homogeneous Matchbox Manifolds |
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September 30
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October 5
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Michael Brandenbursky
The Technion, Haifa |
Knot Theory and Quasi-morphisms |
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October 7
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October 12
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Christian Rosendal
UIC |
Complete metric groups acting on trees |
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October 14
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October 19
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Marshall Williams
UIC |
Metric currents in Heisenberg groups |
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October 21
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October 26
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Chloe Perin
Hebrew Universtiy |
Definable subsets and cyclic subgroups of the free group. |
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October 28
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November 4
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Robert Young
IHES |
The Dehn function of SL(n,Z) |
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November 11
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Igor Belegradek
Georgia Institute of Technology |
Moduli spaces and non-unique souls |
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November 18
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Andres Navas
Universidad de Santiago de Chile |
Some remarks on Thurston's stability theorem |
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November 23
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Mike Hochman
Princeton |
Local entropy averages and projection of fractal measures |
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November 25
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December 2
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Julio Rebelo
University Paul-Sabatier Toulouse, France |
On the regularity of stationary measures for non-discrete subgroups of Diff (S^1) |