Geometry-Topology Seminar Schedule

Location: Math 1313
Time: 3:00 PM
Day: Monday
Organizer: Karin Melnick

Current Schedule

September 14:	Anosov flows and representations of surface groups
	Francois Labourie (Université Paris Sud XI)
September 21:	Geometrization of 3-manifolds and long time behavior of the Ricci flow
	Andy Sanders (University of Maryland)
September 24:	Three-dimensional affine space forms and geodesic flows of noncompact hyperbolic surfaces * joint with Dynamical Systems
	Bill Goldman
September 28:	Homological representation theory of the mapping class group
	Thomas Koberda (Harvard University)
October 8:	The space of flat metrics *special day, joint with Dynamical Systems Seminar
	Moon Duchin (University of Michigan)
October 12:	Bilipschitz equivalence is not equivalent to quasi-isometric equivalence for finitely generated groups
	Tullia Dymarz (Yale University)
October 12:	Ricci curvature and measures Special extra talk at 4:10 in Room 3206
	Jean-Pierre Bourguignon (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques)
October 19:	Generalizations of Spin structures
	Hisham Sati (University of Maryland)
October 26:	Talk 1: General introduction to derived equivalences Talk 2: Differential graded categories in geometry and topology *two talks, joint with Algebra-Number Theory Seminar, one at 2PM and one at 3PM
	Jonathan Block (University of Pennsylvania)
November 2:	Proper affine actions on Minkowski spacetime
	Virginie Charette (Université de Sherbrooke)
November 9:	Surfaces, SL(3), and an equation of Tzitzeica
	John Loftin (Rutgers University Newark)
November 16:	Cusp volume of fibered 3-manifolds
	David Futer (Temple University)
November 30:	Circle homeomorphisms and shears
	Dragomir Saric (SUNY Stonybrook)
December 1:	The Picard group of the moduli space of curves with level structures Note special day and time: Tuesday 3:30 PM
	Andrew Putman (MIT)
December 7:	Equivariant cohomology and resolution
	Pierre Albin (Courant Institute, NYU)
January 25:	Length of geodesics and related problems
	Alex Nabutovsky (University of Toronto)
February 1:	Generalized Thom spectra and twisted K-theory
	Mehdi Khorami (Wesleyan University)
February 15:	Lorentzian Parabolic Transformations
	Todd Drumm (Howard University)
February 22:	Large essential singularities for higher dimensional conformal maps
	Charles Frances (Université Paris-Sud XI)
February 23:	Anosov actions of Rk *special day and time, joint with dynamics
	Thierry Barbot (Université d'Avignon), Math 1308
March 1:	TBA
	Irine Peng (Indiana University)
March 8:	Commensurability of Knot Complements
	Melissa Macasieb (University of Maryland, College Park)
March 22:	TBA
	Chris Atkinson (Temple University)
April 5:	TBA
	Ian Biringer (Yale University)
April 19:	TBA
	Shinpei Baba (Universität Bonn)
May 03:	TBA
	Ser Peow Tan (National University of Singapore)

Old Seminar Schedules

• Academic Year 1998-1999
• Academic Year 1999-2000
• Academic Year 2001-2002
• Academic Year 2006-2007
• Academic Year 2007-2008
• Academic Year 2008-2009