Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar - Spring 2015
Usually meets Wednesday at 3:00 pm in SEO 636.
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January 14
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January 21
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January 28
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February 4
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February 11
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February 16
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Catherine Pfaff
Universität Bielefeld |
Dense geodesic rays in the quotient of Outer space |
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February 18
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February 23
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Hyunshik Shin
UIC |
Pseudo-Anosov mapping classes not arising from Penner's construction |
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February 25
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March 2
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Mohammed Abouzaid
Columbia University |
Functoriality in mirror symmetry |
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March 4
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Kelly Yancey
University of Maryland |
Minimal self joinings of 3-IETs |
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March 9
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Paul Kirk
Indiana University |
A Lagrangian Floer theory in the pillowcase and traceless representations of tangles. |
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March 11
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March 16
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Kathryn Mann
UC Berkeley |
Left orderable groups that don't act on the line |
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March 18
(3:00 pm; SEO 612)
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Eric Zaslow
Northwestern University |
From Knots to Clusters: the Path via Sheaves |
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March 25
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No seminar
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Spring Break |
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March 30
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Lori Alvin
University of Denver |
Unimodal Maps and Inverse Limit Spaces |
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April 1
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April 6
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Elisabeth Fink
Ecole Normale Superieure |
Morse geodesics in torsion groups |
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April 8
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April 15
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April 22
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April 23
(3:00 pm; SEO 512)
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Seon Hee Lim
Seoul National University, MSRI |
Martin boundary and measures minimizing energy in negative curvature |
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April 27
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Sebastian Hensel
University of Chicago |
The handlebody Torelli group |
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April 29
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Emily Stark
Tufts |
Commensurability and quasi-isometric classification of hyperbolic surface group amalgams |