Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar - Spring 2008
Usually meets Wednesday at 3:00 pm in SEO 636.
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January 16
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January 23
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January 30
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February 4
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Daniel Groves
UIC |
Residual finiteness and separability in hyperbolic groups |
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February 6
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February 8
(2:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Chris Leininger
UIUC |
Cannon--Thurston maps and the complex of curves. |
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February 8
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Javier Aramayona
UIUC |
Simplicial embeddings of pants complexes are geometric. |
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February 11
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Jason DeBlois
UIC |
Rank gradient of cyclic covers |
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February 13
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Jason DeBlois
UIC |
Rank gradient of cyclic covers II. |
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February 20
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February 25
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Alexander Getmanenko
Northwestern University |
Resurgent analysis of the Witten Laplacian in one dimension |
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February 27
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March 5
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March 10
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Katrin Gelfert
Northwestern University |
Expansive Markov systems: geometrical and dynamical properties |
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March 12
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March 19
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March 24
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Dirk Toeben
University of Cologne, Germany |
Survey of singular Riemannian foliations |
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March 26
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No seminar
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Spring Break |
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March 31
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Eduardo Martinez-Pedroza
University of Oklahoma |
Virtual Amalgamation of Quasiconvex Subgroups |
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April 2
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April 9
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April 14
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Kasra Rafi
University of Chicago |
Convexity of lengths along a Teichmuller geodesic |
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April 16
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April 21
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Joseph Maher
Oklahoma State University |
Random Heegaard splittings |
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April 23
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Henry Wilton
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A structure theory for limit groups |
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April 25
(4:30 pm; SEO 612)
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Henry Wilton
UT Austin |
Limit groups and positive-genus towers |
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April 28
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Dave Morris
University of Lethbridge |
Amenable groups that act on the line |
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April 30
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