Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar - Fall 2015
Usually meets Wednesday at 3:00 pm in SEO 636.
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August 24
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Steve Hurder
UIC |
Organizational Meeting |
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August 26
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September 2
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September 9
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September 14
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Brian Collier
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign |
Maximal SO(2,3) surface group representations and Labourie's conjecture |
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September 16
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Greg Kuperberg
UC Davis |
Knottedness is in NP, modulo GRH |
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September 23
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September 28
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Zoran Sunic
Texas A&M |
Left orders on free products and left relatively convex subgroups. |
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September 30
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October 7
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October 14
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October 19
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Jenya Sapir
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Counting non-simple closed curves on surfaces |
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October 21
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October 26
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Konstantinos Efstathiou
University of Groningen |
Hamiltonian monodromy: an overview and new perspectives |
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October 28
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November 4
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November 9
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Marc Culler
UIC |
Orderability of Dehn fillings |
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November 11
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Pedram Hekmati
IMPA - Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada |
Topological T-duality and Hodgkin’s theorem |
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November 16
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Laura Fredrickson
University of Texas at Austin |
A construction of limiting solutions of Hitchin's equations |
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November 18
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November 23
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Theo Johnson-Freyd
Northwestern University |
Where does the Spin-Statistics Theorem come from? |
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November 25
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November 30
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Egor Shelukhin
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
The diameter of the $L^1$-metric on the group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms of $S^2$. |
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December 2
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December 14
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Neil Hoffman
University of Melbourne |
Knot Commensurability |