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Geometry-Topology Seminar Schedule, 2010-2011

Geometry-Topology Seminar Schedule

Location: Math 1313
Time: 3:00 PM
Day: Monday
Organizer: Karin Melnick, Richard Wentworth


Schedule for 2010-2011

September 13: Geometry of Meromorphic Semigroups
David Hamilton (University of Maryland, College Park)
September 20: Normal forms for conformal vector fields on Lorentzian manifolds
Karin Melnick (University of Maryland, College Park)
September 27: Identifying the Canonical Component for the Whitehead Link
Emily Landes (University of Texas, Austin)
October 4: Deformation of Kaehler-Einstein manifolds
Xiaofeng Sun (Lehigh)
October 11: Top terms of trace polynomials in Kra's plumbing construction
Caroline Series (University of Warwick)
October 18: Generic rigidity of periodic frameworks
Louis Theran (Temple University)
October 25: Extending Quillen's Quartet on the Pullback Functor
Jack Calcut (Oberlin College)
November 1: The Torelli group of genus 3 is not finitely presented
Alexander Gaifullin (Moscow State University and Columbia University)
November 8: Building immersed hyperbolic surfaces in hyperbolic 2- and 3-manifolds
Jeremy Kahn (SUNY Stonybrook)
November 22: Counting minimal surfaces in hyperbolic three-manifolds
Zeno Huang (CUNY Staten Island)
December 6: Hyperbolic Dehn filling and the shape of the Maskit slice
Aaron Magid (University of Maryland, College Park)
December 14: The Crooked Plane Conjecture 11 am in room 1313, *note special day and time**
Virginie Charette (Université de Sherbrooke)
January 31: Hilbert's third problem and its generalizations
Christian Zickert (Berkeley)
February 1: Symmetry and realization problems
Note change of day, room, and time: Tuesday at 3:30 in MTH 0201
David Ben McReynolds (University of Chicago)
February 7: Character Varieties of Once-Punctured Torus Bundles
Kate Petersen (Florida State University)
February 14: A new identity for closed hyperbolic surfaces
Ser Peow Tan (National University of Singapore)
February 21: RAAGs in Ham
Misha Kapovich (University of California, Davis)
February 28: Anti-de Sitter 3-manifolds and maximally stretched laminations on hyperbolic surfaces
Fanny Kassel (University of Chicago)
March 7: Bott-Samelson resolutions and universal lifts of Kac-Moody groups
Nitu Kitchloo (Johns Hopkins and UCSD)
March 14: Kähler groups, real hyperbolic spaces and the Cremona group
Pierre Py (University of Chicago)
March 28: Kac-Moody symmetric spaces
Walter Freyn (University of Münster)
April 04: Combinatorial and Geometric views of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Hossein Namazi (University of Texas, Austin)
April 11: Moduli of real and quaternionic bundles over a curve
Florent Schaffhauser (Bogota)
April 18: The Deligne-Mumford compactification of the moduli space of curves
Sarah Koch (Harvard University)
April 25: Homology of distributive structures
Jozef H. Przytycki (George Washington University)
April 28: The structure of groups with a quasiconvex hierarchy **Note special time and place: Thursday at 3:30 in Room 1311**
Dani Wise (McGill University)
May 2: Cohomology of mapping class groups
Rasmus Villemoes (University of Maryland, College Park)
May 5: Mapping class groups and moduli spaces of hyperbolic 3-manifolds **Special time and place: Thursday 2:00 in MTH 0102
Dick Canary (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
May 9: Volume Identities for hyperbolic manifolds with boundary
Martin Bridgeman (Boston College)
May 23: Bers-Maskit slices of the quasifuchsian space 10 am
Sara Maloni (Warwick University)
May 27: The Outline of Mirzakhani's Solution to Witten-Kontsevich Note day and time.
Scott Wolpert (UMCP)
August 3: On Margulis spacetimes arising from nonorientable surfaces 2:00 in Room 1313
Virginie Charette (Université de Sherbrooke)


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