Geometry/Topology Seminar
Thursdays at 3:00PM, in
308 Eckhart.
Winter 2002
- January 10, special room and extended time: the Barn, 2:00PM-5:00PM
- Curt McMullen, Harvard
Coxeter groups and Salem numbers.
- January 18, 21, 22
-
Unni Namboodiri Lectures in Geometry and Topology
- David Gabai , Caltech and Princeton
Geometric and Topological Rigidity of Hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
- January 24,
- Peter Brinkmann, UIUC
Mapping tori of free group automorphisms.
- January 31,
- Chris Connell, U. Chicago
Rigidity of boundary quasiconformal structures.
- February 7,
- Andrzej Zuk, U. Chicago
Automata groups.
- February 14,
- Nicolas Monod, U. Chicago
Examples of super-rigidity for general irreducible lattices.
- February 21,
- Jeff Brock, U. Chicago
Cone-manifolds and Ahlfors' measure conjecture. (Cancelled)
- February 26, 3:00 E308 (Special Tuesday meeting)
- Koji Fujiwara, Tohoku University
Bounded cohomology of subgroups of mapping class groups.
- March 7,
- Ben Martin, Hebrew University
The geometry of character varieties.
- March 8, special lecture, E202, 1:30-3:30
- Bill Goldman, Maryland
Topology versus dynamics on moduli spaces.
- March 14, special time & room: E206, 2:00-3:00
- Robert Brooks, MIT and Technion
The Quark Model of a Riemann Surface.
Spring 2002
March 28,
- Jeff Brock, U. Chicago
Cone-manifolds and Ahlfors' measure conjecture.
- April 4
- Heather Johnston, Vassar College
Bounded Surgery, Coarse Borel and Non-Uniformly
Contractible Spaces
- April 11
- Eugenie Hunsicker,
TBA
- April 18
- Paul Kirk, Indiana
TBA
- June 6, 2:00-3:00
- John McCarthy , Michigan State University
TBA
- June 6, 3:00-4:00
- Bill Vautaw , Michigan State University
TBA
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