Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar - Spring 2011
Usually meets Wednesday at 3:00 pm in SEO 636.
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January 12
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January 19
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Iddo Samet
Hebrew University, Jerusalem |
Homology and volume of negatively curved orbifolds |
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January 26
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January 31
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Jon Chaika
University of Chicago |
Some diophantine properties of Interval Exchange Transformations |
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February 2
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February 9
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February 16
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February 21
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Piotr Przytycki
Polish Academy of Sciences and UIUC |
Random groups do not split |
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February 23
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March 2
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March 7
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Pierre Py
University of Chicago |
Kahler groups, real hyperbolic spaces and the Cremona group |
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March 9
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March 14
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David Constantine
University of Chicago |
Compact forms of homogeneous spaces and group actions |
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March 16
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March 23
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No seminar
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Spring Break |
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March 28
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Steve Hurder
UIC |
The topology and dynamics of the Kuperberg minimal set |
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March 30
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April 4
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Jayadev Athreya
UIUC |
Cusp excursions on parameter spaces |
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April 6
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April 11
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Howard Masur
University of Chicago |
Ergodicity of the Weil-Petersson geodesic flow |
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April 13
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April 18
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Natalie McGathey
UIC |
Invariant Measures and Homeomorphisms of Boundaries |
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April 20
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April 25
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Ben Klaff
UIC |
Rational Points on Modular Character Varieties of Hyperbolic Knots |
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April 27
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Michael Siler
UIC |
The geometry of carrier graphs |
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May 2
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Jose Aliste Prieto
University of Chile, Santiago |
On a generalization of Poincare classification theorem for aperiodic actions |
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May 5
(2:00 pm; SEO 636)
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Francois Labourie
Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay |
An Algebra of Observables for Cross Ratios |