The graduate student Geometry-Topology seminar was started in the spring of 2005 to provide students in geometry and topology a place for presenting their research to their peers. If you are interested in presenting to the group, please contact Jane Long (janelong@math.umd.edu) or Ryan Hoban (rfhoban@math.umd.edu) for details.

NEWS: This semester, the Student Geometry-Topology seminar and the Faculty Geometry-Topology seminar will merge. We will meet on Mondays at 3pm, rather than our usual Tuesdays 2pm. Some talks will be given by students and others by faculty or visitors invited by the faculty. Students are encouraged to participate and present to the friendly audience!

Day: Monday
Time: 3:00pm
Place: Math 1311

Monday Feb. 11	Ryan Hoban - UMCP
The Siegel Upper Half Space
Abstract
Monday Feb. 18	Karin Melnick - Yale University
An embedding theorem for automorphism groups of Cartan geometries
Faculty Talk
Monday Feb. 25	Jane Long - UMCP
The Steenrod Algebra and Group Cohomology
Abstract
Thursday Feb. 28, 2:00pm	Alex Eskin - Chicago
TBA. Joint with Dynamics Seminar
Faculty Talk
Monday March 3	Nicolas Flores-Castillo - UMCP
Synge's trick
Abstract
Monday March 10	Stefan Mendez-Diez - UMCP
D-brane Charges and K-theory
Monday March 24	John Parker - Univ. of Durham
Unfaithful triangle groups and the hunt for complex hyperbolic lattices
Faculty Talk
Monday March 31	Lowell Abrams - George Washington, Johns Hopkins
TBA
Faculty Talk
Monday April 7	Anton Lukyanenko - UMCP
Projective Deformations of Triangle Tilings (master's thesis defense)
Monday April 14	Jack Morava - Johns Hopkins University
Classical mechanics in tree space
Faculty Talk
Monday April 21	No Talk
Monday April 28	Brenton Walker - UMCP
TBA
Monday May 5	Jane Long - UMCP
The cohomology rings of the affine group of Fp2 and of PSL(3, Fp) (PhD thesis defense, will meet in MTH 1310)