Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar - Fall 2016
Usually meets Wednesday at 3:00 pm in SEO 636.
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August 24
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August 29
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Jayadev S. Athreya
University of Washington |
Random Grids in G-spaces |
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August 31
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September 7
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September 12
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Aaron Brown
University of Chicago |
Entropy, invariance, and rigidity of lattice actions |
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September 14
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September 19
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David Dumas
UIC |
Topology of some compact complex manifolds with flag variety geometric structures |
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September 21
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September 26
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Jordan Watts
University of Colorado Boulder |
Treating Limits as Colimits and Colimits as Limits ... with Applications! |
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September 28
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October 3
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Arie Levit
Weizmann Institute, Rehovot Israel |
Counting commensurability classes of hyperbolic manifolds |
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October 5
(3:00 pm; SEO 512)
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Paul Rapoport and Jake Herndon
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Eight Faces of the Poincare Sphere Week 5: Surgery and Plumbing on the E8 Link and the Kirby Calculus |
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October 10
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Sebastian Hurtado Salazar
University of Chicago |
New Ideas on Zimmer's conjecture |
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October 12
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October 17
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David Fisher
Indiana University |
Strong property (T) and invariant metrics |
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October 19
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October 24
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Steven Rayan
Saskatchewan |
Quivers, hyperpolygons, and Hitchin systems |
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October 26
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October 31
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Olga Lukina
UIC |
Molino theory for laminations |
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November 2
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November 7
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Daniel Groves
UIC |
Hyperbolic groups acting improperly |
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November 9
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November 14
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Yair Hartman
Northwestern University |
Percolation, Invariant Random Subgroups and Furstenberg Entropy |
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November 16
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November 23
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November 30
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