Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar - Spring 2014
Usually meets Wednesday at 3:00 pm in SEO 636.
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January 15
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January 22
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January 27
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Olga Lukina
UIC |
The dynamical classification of weak solenoids |
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January 29
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February 5
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February 12
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February 19
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February 24
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Tengren Zhang
University of Michigan |
Degeneration of convex real projective structures on surfaces |
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February 26
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March 3
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Matthew Durham
UIC |
Elliptic Actions on Teichmüller Space |
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March 5
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March 10
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Yair Glasner
Ben Gurion University, and University of Utah |
Invariant random subgroups of linear groups. |
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March 12
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March 17
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Jing Tao
University of Oklahoma |
Growth tight actions and strongly contracting elements |
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March 19
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March 26
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No seminar
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Spring Break |
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March 31
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Lucas Culler
MIT |
Elliptic curves and knot homology |
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April 2
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April 7
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Jeremy Tyson
Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Frequency of Sobolev and quasiconformal dimension distortion |
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April 9
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April 14
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Tarik Aougab
Yale University |
Minimally intersecting filling pairs on surfaces |
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April 16
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace
Universite catholique de Louvain |
Simple locally compact groups |
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April 23
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Nir Lazarovich
Techion |
Regular CAT(0) Cube Complexes |
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April 28
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Spencer Dowdall
Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Statistical hyperbolicity in Teichmuller space |
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April 30
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