Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar - Spring 2013
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 6
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February 13
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February 18
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Nathan Dunfield
UIUC |
Integer homology 3-spheres with large injectivity radius |
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February 20
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February 25
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Chen Meiri
University of Chicago |
Thin hyperbolic monodromy groups for the hypergeometric differential equation. |
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February 27
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Yair Hartman
Weizmann Institute |
The Furstenberg entropy realization problem |
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March 4
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Boris Kalinin
Penn State University |
Global smooth rigidity for Anosov Z^k actions on tori and nilmanifolds. |
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March 5
(2:00 pm; SEO 712)
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Victoria Sadovskaya
Penn State University |
Continuous amenable reduction for cocycles with one exponent. |
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March 6
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March 11
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Fabrice Baudoin
Purdue University |
Curvature bounds and heat kernels estimates in sub-Riemannian geometry |
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March 13
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March 18
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Paul Reschke
UIC |
Salem numbers and abelian surface automorphisms |
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March 20
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Karin Melnick
University of Maryland |
Rigidity theorems for essential automorphisms of parabolic geometries |
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March 27
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No seminar
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Spring Break |
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April 1
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Scott Kaschner
Indiana-Purdue Indianapolis |
Regularity of superstable manifolds |
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April 3
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April 8
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Xiaoguang Wang
UIC |
Dynamics of rational maps |
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April 10
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April 17
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April 22
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Richard Kent
University of Wisconsin |
Thick-skinned 3-manifolds |
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April 24
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April 29
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Benson Farb
University of Chicago |
Stability, braid groups, and the counting of polynomials |
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May 1
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