Geometry/Topology Seminar
Thursdays at 3:00PM, in
308 Eckhart.
Spring 2003
April 3,
Ken Bromberg, California Institute of Technology
Geometric inflexibility and 3-manifolds that fiber over the
circle
April 10,
Leo Butler, Northwestern University
The Toda Lattice, Positive-Entropy Integrable Systems and
Transcendental Numbers
April 17,
Daniel Groves, University of Oxford
Obstructions to word-hyperbolicity and mapping tori of free group
endomorphisms
April 21, 1:30pm in Eckhart 202 (Special day)
Kim Ruane, Tufts University
Boundaries of CAT(0) spaces (and groups!)
April 24,
No seminar
May 1,
Daniel Biss, University of Chicago
Decomposing Out(F_n)
May 8,
Dan Margalit, University of Chicago
Algebra vs. topology in mapping class groups
May 15,
Ian Agol, University of Illinois at Chicago
Survey on volume bounds of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
and orbifolds
May 22,
Mark Sapir, Vanderbilt University
Diagram groups of directed 2-complexes, spaces of positive paths,
homology and homotopy
May 29,
Jeff Brock, University of Chicago
The density conjecture, strong convergence, and
the taming of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
June 4, 1:30 pm in Eckhart 202 (Special Day!)
Michael Handel, CUNY Lehman College
Dynamics in Out(F_n) - Part I
June 5,
Michael Handel, CUNY Lehman College
Dynamics in Out(F_n) - Part II
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For questions, contact
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Benson Farb,
farb at math.uchicago.edu
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Alex Eskin,
eskin at math.uchicago.edu
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Shmuel Weinberger,
shmuel at math.uchicago.edu
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Jeff Brock,
brock at math.uchicago.edu
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Andrzej Zuk,
zuk at math.uchicago.edu
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Chris Connell,
cconnell at math.uchicago.edu
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Laura DeMarco,
demarco at math.uchicago.edu
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Dan Grossman,
dan at math.uchicago.edu
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Chris Hruska,
chruska at math.uchicago.edu
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Nicolas Monod,
monod at math.uchicago.edu
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Roman Muchnik,
roma at math.uchicago.edu.