Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar - Fall 2017
Usually meets Wednesday at 3:00 pm in SEO 636.
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August 28
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Steve Hurder
UIC |
Organizational Meeting |
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August 30
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September 6
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September 11
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Andrew Sanders
Heidelberg University |
Families of opers and the holonomy map |
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September 13
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September 18
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Tullia Dymarz
University of Wisconsin, Madison |
A matrix model for random nilpotent groups |
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September 20
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September 25
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Peter Shalen
UIC |
Volume and homology of hyperbolic orbifolds, and the enumeration of arithmetic groups |
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September 27
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October 4
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October 11
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October 16
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Asaf Katz
University of Chicago |
Sparse equidistribution in unipotent flows |
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October 18
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October 23
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Mark Pengitore
Purdue University |
Translation-like actions of nilpotent groups |
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October 25
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November 1
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November 6
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Gang Liu
Northwestern University |
Recent progress of Yau's uniformization conjecture |
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November 8
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November 13
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Ngo Bao Chau
University of Chicago |
On the Hitchin fibration for algebraic surfaces |
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November 15
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November 20
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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David Cohen
University of Chicago |
Weakly aperiodic SFT on lamplighters |
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November 22
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November 29
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December 4
(2:00 pm; SEO 636)
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Genevieve Walsh
Tufts University |
Relatively hyperbolic groups vs 3-manifold groups. |
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December 6
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