Geometry/Topology Seminar

Thursdays at 3:00PM, in 308 Eckhart.

Spring 2001

April 5: Viktor Schroeder , Northwestern
Hyperbolic Rank of Metric Spaces
April 12: No seminar this week.
April 19: Steve Hurder, UIC
Entropy and Dynamics of C^1 Group Actions
April 26: Dave Witte, Oklahoma State University
Tessellations of homogeneous spaces
April 27, April 30, May 1 - 2001 Unni Namboodiri Lectures in Geometry and Topology: Yakov Eliashberg , Stanford University
First Steps of Symplectic Field Theory
May 3: Dick Canary, U. Michigan
Deformation spaces of hyperbolic 3-manifolds: a survey
May 10: Steve Kerckhoff, Stanford University
Deforming hyperbolic structures on 3-manifolds
May 17: Ilya Kapovitch, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Nielsen methods for gropus acting on hyperbolic spaces
May 24: Kevin Scannel, St. Louis University
Cohomology of arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds
May 31 TBA
June 7, 3pm in Ry 352 (the Barn): Mike Wolf, Rice University
The Grafting Map of Teichmuller space

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