Farb Working Group   πŸ§ΊπŸ₯–πŸ·

Summer 2020

Date Speaker Title
June 11, 2020 Eduard Looijenga Artin groups and their buildings.
Notes by Eduard Looijenga: Notes
June 15, 2020 Eduard Looijenga Artin groups and their buildings, continued.
Notes by Eduard Looijenga: Notes
June 18, 2020 Mystery speaker(s)
June 22, 2020 Ishan Banerjee Stable cohomology of discriminants
June 25, 2020 Cancelled
June 29, 2020 Seraphina Lee Knots which behave like the prime numbers
Notes by Seraphina Lee: Slides
July 2, 2020 informal discussions
July 6, 2020 informal discussions
July 9, 2020 informal discussions
July 13, 2020 informal discussions
July 16, 2020 informal discussions
July 20, 2020 informal discussions
July 23, 2020 Peter Huxford Fundamental groups of projective discriminant complements
July 27, 2020 informal discussions
July 30, 2020 Peng Hui How Random Walk and Fourier Analysis on Groups
Notes by Peng Hui How: Notes
August 3, 2020 Lei Chen Teichmuller space and aspherical manifolds
Notes by Lei Chen: Notes
August 6, 2020 informal discussions
August 10, 2020 Trevor Hyde Christol's Theorem
Notes by Trevor Hyde: Slides
August 13, 2020 informal discussions
August 17, 2020 informal discussions
August 20, 2020 Nat Mayer Results of Hermite and Joubert on polynomials of degree 5 and 6
August 24, 2020 informal discussions
August 27, 2020 Cancelled
August 31, 2020 informal discussions
September 3, 2020 Benson Farb Groups acting on S^1, T^2, ...
September 7, 2020 informal discussions
September 10, 2020 Trevor Hyde Seven Trees in One
Notes by Trevor Hyde: Slides
September 14, 2020 Eduard Looijenga Del Pezzo surfaces
Notes by Eduard Looijenga: Notes
September 17, 2020 informal dicussions
September 21, 2020 Eduard Looijenga Central extensions of loop groups and loop algebras
Notes by Eduard Looijenga: Notes
September 14, 2020 informal dicussions
September 28, 2020 Phil Tosteson The orbifold Euler characteristic of M_g