Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar - Fall 2012
Usually meets Wednesday at 3:00 pm in SEO 636.
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August 29
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GTDSET
UIC |
Organize! |
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September 5
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September 10
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Nir Avni
Northwestern university |
Asymptotic Group Theory and Topological Quantum Field Theory |
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September 12
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September 17
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Laura DeMarco
UIC |
Complex degeneration, arithmetic limit |
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September 19
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September 24
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Hao Liang
UIC |
Equations over central extension of hyperbolic group |
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September 26
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October 1
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Holly Krieger
UIC |
Arithmetic of the critical orbit of $z^d+c$ |
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October 3
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October 8
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Hexi Ye
UIC |
Rational functions with identical measure of maximal entropy |
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October 10
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Patrick Reynolds
University of Utah |
The Gromov boundary of the complex of free factors |
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October 15
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Talia Fernos
University of North Carolina, Greensboro |
Rigidity of actions on CAT(0) cube complexes |
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October 17
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October 22
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Michael Brandenbursky
Vanderbilt University |
Bi-invariant metrics on diffeomorphism groups |
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October 24
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October 29
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Romain Dujardin
Universite de Marne La Vallee |
Lyapunov exponents for surface group representations and projective structures |
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October 31
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November 5
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Brad Groff
UIC |
Splittings of Relatively Hyperbolic Groups |
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November 7
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November 12
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Andy Sanders
University of Maryland |
Domains of discontinuity of almost-Fuchsian groups |
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November 14
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November 19
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William Gignac
University of Michigan |
Equidistribution of preimages in nonarchimedean dynamics |
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November 21
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November 28
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December 3
(4:00 pm; SEO 636)
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Julio Rebelo
University of Toulouse, France |
Contractions vs. extension of holonomy maps for holomorphic foliations |
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December 5
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