Topology & Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Tuesdays (and some Thursdays)
1:30 - 2:30, Malott 406

Schedule of Talks for Fall 2004

NOTE: It is also possible to schedule talks
on any Thursday at the same time.
 
Tuesday, August 31   Organizational Meeting
Tuesday, September 7   Brendan Owens, Cornell University
A generalization of a theorem of Elkies
Tuesday, September 14   Martin Kassabov, Cornell University
Computing Kazhdan Constants
Tuesday, September 21   Dan Margalit, University of Utah
Weil-Petersson isometries are mapping classes
Tuesday, September 28   Jason Behrstock, Columbia University
Asymptotic geometry of the mapping class group and Teichmuller space
Tuesday, October 5   Tara Brendle, Cornell University
Commensurations of the Johnson kernel
Tuesday, October 12   Fall Break, no seminar
Tuesday, October 19   Christophe Pittet, Universite de Marseille
Random walks on compactly generated groups
Tuesday, October 26   DOUBLE HEADER
Azer Akhmedov, UC Santa Barbara 1:30 - 2:30 (406 Malott)
Quasi-isometric rigidity in group varieties

Martin Bridson, Imperial College, London 3:00 - 4:00 (Bache Auditorium)
On the geometry and complexity of balanced presentations of groups
Tuesday, November 2   Nathalie Wahl, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Mapping class groups and automorphisms of free groups
Tuesday, November 9   Indira Chatterji, Cornell University
On a characterization of hyperbolic spaces
Tuesday, November 16   Aaron Heap, University of Rochester
Bordism Invariants of the Mapping Class Group
Tuesday, November 23   Walter Neumann, Columbia University
Three-manifolds of splice type
Tuesday, November 30   David Rosenthal, St. John's University
On the Algebraic K- and L-theory of Word Hyperbolic Groups
Thursday, December 2   Marty Scharlemann, UC Santa Barbara
Proximity in the curve complex: boundary reduction and bicompressible surfaces


Last modified: August 24, 2004