Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar - Fall 2014
Usually meets Wednesday at 3:00 pm in SEO 636.
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August 25
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Steve Hurder
UIC |
Organizational Meeting |
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August 27
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September 3
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September 8
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Thomas Sinclair
UCLA |
von Neumann algebras of negatively curved groups |
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September 10
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September 15
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Yank\i\ Lekili
UIC |
Equivariant Lagrangian branes and Representations |
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September 17
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September 22
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Michael Hull
UIC |
Transitivity degrees of countable groups. |
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September 24
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September 29
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Marc Culler
UIC |
A-polynomials and SU(2) character varieties of knot complements |
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October 1
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October 6
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Olga Lukina
UIC |
Hausdorff dimension in graph matchbox manifolds |
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October 8
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October 13
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Steve Hurder
UIC |
Coarse entropy and transverse dimension |
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October 15
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October 20
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Kiran Parkhe
Technion University, Israel |
Commuting homeomorphisms with non-commuting lifts |
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October 22
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October 27
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Sonja Stimac
University of Zagreb and IUPUI |
Horseshoe-like maps of plane and symbolic dynamics |
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October 27
(4:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Sheel Ganatra
Stanford University |
Open-closed string maps and circle actions in symplectic topology |
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October 29
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November 5
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November 10
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Ronen Mukamel
University of Chicago |
Billiards, the square root of 11 and a Teichmuller curve of genus one |
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November 12
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November 17
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Ailsa Keating
Columbia University |
Lagrangian tori in four-dimensional Milnor fibres |
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November 19
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November 26
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December 1
(2:00 pm; SEO 636)
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Yash Lodha
Cornell University |
A new solution to the von Neumann-Day problem for finitely presented groups |
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December 3
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