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| Tuesday, August 31 | Organizational Meeting |
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| Tuesday, September 7 | Brendan Owens, Cornell University A generalization of a theorem of Elkies |
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| Tuesday, September 14 | Martin Kassabov, Cornell University Computing Kazhdan Constants |
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| Tuesday, September 21 | Dan Margalit, University of Utah Weil-Petersson isometries are mapping classes |
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| Tuesday, September 28 | Jason Behrstock, Columbia University Asymptotic geometry of the mapping class group and Teichmuller space |
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| Tuesday, October 5 | Tara Brendle, Cornell University Commensurations of the Johnson kernel |
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| Tuesday, October 12 | Fall Break, no seminar | |
| Tuesday, October 19 | Christophe Pittet, Universite de Marseille Random walks on compactly generated groups |
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| 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 |
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| Tuesday, November 2 | Nathalie Wahl, University of Aarhus, Denmark Mapping class groups and automorphisms of free groups |
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| Tuesday, November 9 | Indira Chatterji, Cornell University On a characterization of hyperbolic spaces |
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| Tuesday, November 16 | Aaron Heap, University of Rochester Bordism Invariants of the Mapping Class Group |
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| Tuesday, November 23 | Walter Neumann, Columbia University Three-manifolds of splice type |
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| Tuesday, November 30 | David Rosenthal, St. John's University On the Algebraic K- and L-theory of Word Hyperbolic Groups |
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| Thursday, December 2 | Marty Scharlemann, UC Santa Barbara Proximity in the curve complex: boundary reduction and bicompressible surfaces |
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