Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar - Spring 2006
Usually meets Wednesday at 3:00 pm in SEO 636.
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January 11
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January 18
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January 25
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February 1
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February 8
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February 15
(3:00 pm; SEO 427)
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Ian Agol
UIC |
finiteness of arithmetic reflection groups |
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February 20
(3:00 pm; SEO 512)
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Andrzej Bis
Lodz University and UIC |
Dynamics of foliated spaces in codimension greater |
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February 22
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March 1
(3:00 pm; SEO 427)
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Alex Furman
UIC |
Property (T), Popa's Cocycle Superrigidity, and Cohomology |
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March 6
(3:00 pm; SEO 512)
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Marian Gidea
Northeastern Illinois University |
Topological methods in the large gap problem of Arnold diffusion |
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March 8
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March 13
(3:00 pm; SEO 512)
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Peter Storm
Stanford University |
Introduction to the methods of Besson-Courtois-Gallot, I |
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March 15
(3:00 pm; SEO 427)
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Peter Storm
Stanford University |
Introduction to the methods of Besson-Courtois-Gallot, II |
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March 15
(4:00 pm; SEO 427)
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Peter Storm
Stanford University |
The minimal entropy conjecture for nonuniform rank one lattices |
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March 20
(1:00 pm; SEO 512)
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Peter Storm
Stanford University |
The minimal entropy conjecture for nonuniform rank one lattices |
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March 20
(3:00 pm; SEO 512)
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John Holt
Massey University |
Torus cusps in hyperbolic 3-manifolds |
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March 22
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No seminar
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Spring Break |
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March 27
(3:00 pm; SEO 512)
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Jeffrey Brock
Brown University |
Heegaard splittings, pants decompositions, and the geometry of hyperbolic 3-manifolds. |
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March 29
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April 3
(3:00 pm; SEO 512)
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Yitwah Cheung
San Francisco State University |
A criterion for unique ergodicity of a translation flow. |
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April 5
(3:00 pm; SEO 427)
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Carlo Petronio
University of Pisa |
ON THE HURWITZ EXISTENCE PROBLEM FOR |
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April 10
(3:00 pm; SEO 512)
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Lawrence Conlon
Washington University, St. Louis |
Foliated, sutured 3-manifolds almost without holonomy |
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April 12
(3:00 pm; SEO 427)
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Pascal Hubert
Universite de Marseilles |
Complexity of polygonal and polyhedral billiards |
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April 19
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April 24
(3:00 pm; SEO 512)
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David Futer
Michigan State University |
Geometry and combinatorics of arborescent link complements |
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April 26
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May 8
(3:00 pm; SEO 512)
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Chris Leininger
UIUC |
Title: Pseudo-Anosov dilatations and algebra |
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May 15
(3:00 pm; SEO 512)
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Koji Fujiwara
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The asymptotic dimension of a curve graph is finite |