| September 12: |
Homotopy groups, loop space homology, free loop spaces and
counting closed geodesics |
| Stephen Halperin (University of Maryland, College Park) |
| September 19: |
The first Betti number of a compact hyperbolic
n manifold |
| John Millson (University of Maryland, College Park) |
| September 26: |
Parametrizing representations of 3-manifold groups |
| Christian Zickert (UMCP) |
| October 10: |
Cluster algebras from surfaces II: Expansion formulas and bases
(preceded by a talk in algebra-number theory seminar) |
| Ralf Schiffler (University of Connecticut) |
| October 17: |
An axiomatic characterization of holomorphic higher analytic torsion
forms
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| Gerard Freixas (CNRS/Université Paris Jussieu ) |
| October 20: |
What is a spherical building? in student geometry seminar |
| Bernhard Leeb (University of Munich) |
| October 24: |
Rigidity and enveloping discrete groups by locally compact groups |
| Tullia Dymarz (University of Wisconsin, Madison) |
| October 31: |
Gluing determinants of Laplacians |
| Richard Wentworth (UMCP) |
| November 7: |
Large genus asymptotics of intersection numbers on moduli spaces
of algebraic curves |
| Peter Zograf (Steklov Mathematical Institute and the Simons Institute) |
| November 14: |
Quasi-isometric classification of 3-manifold groups
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| Jason Behrstock (City University of New York) |
| November 21: |
Character Varieties of surfaces as completely integrable systems
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| Adam Sikora (SUNY-Buffalo) |
| November 28: |
Hyperbolic cone-manifolds with prescribed holonomy
NOTE TIME: 4-5pm |
| Daniel Mathews (Boston College) |
| December 1: |
Approximating Hamiltonian systems by integrable systems using
pseudo-holomorphic curves joint with dynamical systems takes place 3:30 in room 1311 |
| Barney Bramham (Institute for Advanced Study) |
| December 5: |
The smallest Haken hyperbolic polyhedra |
| Shawn Rafalski (Fairfield University) |
| December 12: |
Topological essential dimension of coverings and Klein's resolvent problem algebra-number theory seminar takes place 2:00 in room 1311 |
| Yuri Burda (University of Toronto) |
| December 12: |
No geometry-topology seminar at 3PM |
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| January 12: |
Einstein metrics on Kähler manifolds note special day (Th), room (3206), and time (2PM) |
| Yanir Rubinstein (Stanford University) |
| January 30: |
Principal Congruence Links (part 1/2) |
| Matthias Goerner (UMCP) |
| February 6: |
Principal congruence links (2/2) |
| Matthias Goerner (UMCP) |
| February 13: |
Typical behavior of non-orientable measured foliations on flat
surfaces |
| Rodrigo Trevino (UMCP) |
| February 20: |
Infinitesimal deformations of nodal stable curves |
| Scott Wolpert (UMCP) |
| February 27: |
Mutation and commensurability of link complements |
| Jason Deblois (University of Pittsburgh) |
| March 5: |
Dualities in field theories and the role of K-theory |
| Jonathan Rosenberg (UMCP) |
| March 12: |
String theory on elliptic curve orientifolds and KR-theory |
| Jonathan Rosenberg (UMCP) |
| March 26: |
Dirichlet domains in several geometries |
| Todd Drumm (Howard University) |
| April 2: |
Geometric Structures, Cartan Geometries, and their Automorphisms |
| Karin Melnick (UMCP) |
| April 9: |
Thurston's gluing equations for PSL(n,C) |
| Christian Zickert (UMCP) |
| April 16: |
Recent progress on homogeneous Einstein metrics on generalized flag manifolds |
| Andreas Arvanitoyeorgos (University of Patras - Greece) |
| April 23: |
Concordance and isotopy of metrics with positive scalar curvature |
| Boris Botvinnik (University of Oregon) |
| April 30: |
Bending by finitely additive cocycles |
| Dragomir Saric (Queens College, CUNY) |
| May 7: |
Random walks on the mapping class group |
| Joseph Maher (CUNY) |
| May 14: |
Microbundles |
| Steve Balady (UMCP) |
