| September 10: |
The Teichmüller distance between finite index subgroups of
PSL(2,Z) |
| Dragomir Saric (Queens College, CUNY), dragomir.saric@qc.cuny.edu |
| September 17: |
Morse theory for rank 2 Higgs bundles |
| Graeme Wilkin (Johns Hopkins University), graeme@math.jhu.edu |
| September 24: |
Rational polygonal billiards and Teichmüller geodesics I |
| Giovanni Forni (Maryland) |
| October 1: |
Rational polygonal billiards and Teichmüller geodesics II |
| Giovanni Forni (Maryland) |
| October 8: |
Playing pool on curved surfaces and the wrong way to add fractions
Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Lecture: note change of time and location:
Art-Sociology Building at 4:00pm, reception to follow |
| William Goldman (UMCP), wmg@math.umd.edu |
| October 15: |
Outer Billiards on Kites |
| Richard Schwartz (Brown University) |
| October 22: |
Simple examples of moduli spaces of irregular connections |
| Philip Boalch (ENS Paris and IAS) |
| October 29: |
Topological transitivity of the Weil-Petersson geodesic flow |
| Scott Wolpert (Maryland) |
| November 12: |
An analogue of the Novikov Conjecture in complex algebraic geometry |
| Jonathan Rosenberg (UMCP) |
| November 19: |
Discrete GLn Connections |
| Sergey Novikov (UMCP) |
| December 3: |
Free actions of finite groups on products of spheres |
| Jane Long (UMCP) |
| February 4: |
A curious result of Turaev's |
| Jim Schafer (UMCP) |
| February 11: |
The Siegel Upper Half Space student seminar |
| Ryan Hoban (UMCP) |
| February 18: |
An embedding theorem for automorphism groups of Cartan geometries |
| Karin Melnick (Yale University) |
| February 25: |
The Steenrod Algebra and Group Cohomology student seminar |
| Jane Long (UMCP) |
| February 28: |
The Hodge Norm and the Teichmüller geodesic flow
Thursday at 2, joint with Dynamics Seminar |
| Alex Eskin (University of Chicago) |
| March 3: |
Synge's trick student seminar |
| Nicolas Flores-Castillo (UMCP) |
| March 10: |
D-brane charges and K-theory student seminar |
| Stefan Mendez-Diez (UMCP) |
| March 24: |
Unfaithful triangle groups and the hunt for complex hyperbolic lattices |
| John Parker (Univ. of Durham) |
| March 31: |
Topological structure of digital images from a non-Morse height function
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| Lowell Abrams (Dept. of Math., George Washington Univ., and Dept. of Applied Math., Johns Hopkins Univ.) |
| April 7: |
Projective Deformations of Triangle Tilings (master's thesis defense) |
| Anton Lukyanenko (UMCP) |
| April 21: |
No talk (Passover) |
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| April 28: |
Using persistent homology to recover spatial information
from encounter traces student seminar |
| Brenton Walker (UMCP) |
| May 5: |
The cohomology rings of the affine group of Fp2 and of
PSL(3, Fp) (PhD thesis defense, will meet in MTH 1310) |
| Jane Long (UMCP) |
| May 12: |
Classical mechanics in tree space |
| Jack Morava (Johns Hopkins University) |
