Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar - Fall 2011
Usually meets Wednesday at 3:00 pm in SEO 636.
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August 22
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Steve Hurder
UIC |
Organizational Meeting |
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August 24
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August 29
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Alex Furman
UIC |
Weyl groups and linear representations |
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August 31
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September 7
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September 12
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Iddo Samet
UIC |
Growth of Betti numbers of locally symmetric spaces |
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September 14
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September 19
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Barak Weiss
Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva |
Parking Garages with optimal dynamics |
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September 21
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September 26
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Izhar Oppenheim
The Technion, Haifa |
Criteria for Kazhdan property (T) - variations on Zuk's criterion |
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September 28
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October 5
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October 10
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Joey Lee
UIC |
joint with Number Theory seminar |
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October 12
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October 17
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Daniel Groves
UIC |
Recognizing 3-manifold groups |
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October 19
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October 24
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Kasra Rafi
University of Oklahoma |
Thurston's Lipschitz metric on Teichmüller space |
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October 26
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November 2
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November 9
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November 14
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Grant Lakeland
UT Austin |
Arithmetic Reflection Groups and Congruence |
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November 16
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November 21
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Ayse Sahin
DePaul University |
The structure and spectrum of Heisenberg odometers |
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November 23
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November 28
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Loretta Bartolini
Loyola University Chicago |
Incompressible one-sided surfaces and Dehn filling |
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November 30
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