| September 10: |
Boundary actions of locally compact groups |
| Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University and University of Maryland) |
| September 17: |
Ergodic theory and SL(2)-moduli spaces. Bill will start at 4:05 sharp. |
| William Goldman (University of Maryland) |
| September 24: |
Barycentric subdivision and hyperbolic geometry. Rich will start at 4:05 sharp. |
| Richard Schwartz (University of Maryland) |
| October 1: |
An introduction to quasi-conformal mapping in three or more dimensions. David will start at 4:05 sharp |
| David Hamilton (University of Maryland) |
| October 8: |
Hyperplane arrangements in complex hyperbolic space. Daniel will start at 4:05 sharp |
| Daniel Allcock (Harvard University) |
| October 15: |
Analogies between 3-dimensional topology and number theory |
| Adam Sikora (Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, University of Montreal) |
| October 16: |
The cut number conjecture for 3-manifolds. Special talk in room 1310 from 1:00 - 2:00 |
| Adam Sikora (University of Montreal) |
| October 22: |
Higgs bundles, mirror symmetry and Langlands duality |
| Michael Thaddeus (Columbia University) |
| October 29: |
Holomorphic disks and low-dimensional topology |
| Peter Ozsvath (Princeton University) |
| November 5: |
Degenerations of conformal dynamical systems |
| Jeremy Kahn (SUNY Stony Brook) |
| November 12: |
Black holes and radiation |
| John Stalker (Princeton University) |
| November 19: |
Classifying hyperbolic 3-manifolds, tameness, density and cone
deformations |
| Jeff Brock (University of Chicago) |
| November 26: |
K-theory of local fields and the de Rham-Witt complex |
| Lars Hesselholt (MIT), larsh@math.mit.edu |
| December 3: |
Constructing polygonal linkages in symmetric spaces and Euclidean
buildings and related problems in linear algebra |
| John Millson (University of Maryland) |
| February 11: |
The weak hyperbolization conjecture and surface laminations. |
| Misha Kapovich (University of Utah) |
| February 18: |
Lagrangian submanifolds in hyperKahler manifolds, Legendre
transformation and Plucker formulas |
| Naichung Conan Leung (University of Minnesota) |
| February 19: |
Obstructions to positive curvature and symmetry. This is an exceptional seminar to be held in Room 1310 from 3:30 to 4:30 |
| Anand Dessai (Augsburg University) |
| February 20: |
Zeta functions and representations of finitely-generated groups. This is a joint Lie Group/GT seminar to be held at 2:00 in Room 1310 |
| Ben Martin (Hebrew University) |
| February 25: |
Configurations of Lagrangian subspaces |
| Elisha Falbel (Department of Mathematics Johns Hopkins University (and University of Paris VI)) |
| March 4: |
More on the pentagram map. This lecture will be held in room 3207 (the 3rd floor computer lab). |
| Richard Schwartz (University of Maryland) |
| March 11: |
HyperKahler Manifolds |
| William Goldman (University of Maryland) |
| March 18: |
The Weil-Petersson geometry of Teichmüller space |
| Scott Wolpert (University of Maryland) |
| April 1: |
Burnside obstructions to the Montesinos-Nakanishi 3-move conjecture |
| Jozef Przytycki (George Washington University) |
| April 3: |
On the diffeomorphism group of the two-sphere This is a special seminar on Wednesday from 4-5 in room 2400 |
| Dimitry Burago (Penn State) |
| April 8: |
Lagrangians of tangles and rotors of links |
| Jozef Przytycki (George Washington University) |
| April 15: |
Quasiconformal geometry in metric spaces, and the asymptotic
geometry of 3-manifolds |
| Bruce Kleiner (University of Michigan) |
| April 22: |
Fusion rules for the orbifold model. |
| Marta Asaeda (University of Maryland) |
| April 29: |
Torsion invariants on the symplectic Floer theory and counting
pseudo-holomorphic tori. |
| Yijen Lee (Princeton University) |
| May 01: |
Even dimensional cohomogeneity one manifolds with positive curvature
This is a special seminar in Room 2400 at 3:00 on Wednesday, May 1. |
| Luigi Verdiani (University of Firenze) |
| May 6: |
Momentum Maps, Constrained Dynamics, and Control. |
| Perinkulam Krishnaprasad (Institute of Systems Research, University of Maryland) |
| May 13: |
Schubert calculus on Bott-Samelson manifolds |
| Rebecca Goldin (George Mason University) |
