Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar - Spring 2009
Usually meets Wednesday at 3:00 pm in SEO 636.
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January 12
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Stefan Wenger
UIC |
Compactness for manifolds with bounded volume and diameter |
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January 14
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January 21
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January 26
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Rodrigo Perez
IUPUI |
Siegel disks: Siegel's proof |
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January 28
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February 2
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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David Dumas
UIC |
Epstein surfaces, trees, and bubbles |
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February 4
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February 9
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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John Mackay
UIUC |
Spaces and groups with conformal dimension greater than one |
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February 11
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February 16
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Uri Shapira
Hebrew University, Jerusalem |
A solution to an open problem of Cassels and Diophantine properties of cubic numbers |
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February 18
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February 23
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Jason DeBlois
UIC |
Some virtually special 3-manifold groups |
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February 25
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Laura DeMarco
UIC |
Escape combinatorics for polynomial dynamics |
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March 2
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Pierre Py
University of Chicago |
Quasi-morphisms and area-preserving homeomorphisms |
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March 4
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March 9
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Nathan Broaddus
University of Chicago |
Homology of the curve complex and the Steinberg module of the mapping class group |
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March 11
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Uri Bader
The Technion, Haifa |
Poisson Boundary, The Weyl Group and Rigidity of Group actions |
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March 16
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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John Smillie
Cornell University |
Coding linear flows on the octagon |
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March 18
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Karen Vogtmann
Cornell University |
Translation numbers for automorphism groups of RAAGs |
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March 25
|
No seminar
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Spring Break |
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March 30
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Roman Sauer
University of Münster |
Beyond Kesten's characterization of amenability: the relation between spectral distribution and $L^2$-isoperimetric profile on groups |
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April 1
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Kai Rajala
University of Jyvaskyla |
Quantitative isoperimetric inequalities and quasiconformal maps |
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April 8
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Jason Manning
University at Buffalo |
Virtually geometric words and Whitehead's algorithm |
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April 13
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Ian Agol
UC Berkeley |
The virtual fibering conjecture and related questions |
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April 15
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Matthew Bainbridge
University of Chicago |
Algebraically primitive Teichmüller curves in genus three |
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April 20
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Severine Rigot
Universite de Nice Sophia Antipolis |
Isodiametric inequality in Carnot-Caratheodory spaces |
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April 22
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Jing Tao
UIC |
Linearly Bounded Conjugator Property for the Mapping Class Group |
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April 27
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Daniel Groves
UIC |
Parametizing surface bundles |
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April 29
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Alan Reid
University of Texas at Austin |
On Simon's conjecture for knots |