| 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 at 3:30 |
| March 1: |
Multiplicative sets in solvable groups |
| Irine Peng (Indiana University) |
| March 8: |
Commensurability of Knot Complements |
| Melissa Macasieb (University of Maryland, College Park) |
| March 22: |
Two-sided combinatorial volume bounds for hyperbolic Coxeter polyhedra |
| Chris Atkinson (Temple University) |
| April 5: |
Geometric consequences of algebraic rank in hyperbolic 3-manifolds |
| Ian Biringer (Yale University) |
| April 12: |
Commensurators of infinite volume Kleinian groups |
| Darren Long (University of California, Santa Barbara) |
| April 21: |
CANCELLED |
| Shinpei Baba (Universität Bonn), MATH 1311 |
| April 26: |
Metrics of positive scalar curvature on the 3-sphere |
| Jonathan Rosenberg (University of Maryland, College Park) |
| May 3: |
Dynamics of the Out(F2) action on the SL(2,C) character
variety of F2, the free group on two generators.
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| Ser Peow Tan (National University of Singapore) |
| May 10: |
Group actions and compact forms of homogeneous spaces
* joint with Dynamical Systems |
| David Constantine (University of Chicago) |
| May 26: |
Reduced 1-cohomology and relative property (T) SPECIAL TIME, 2:00, AND SPECIAL DAY |
| Talia Fernós (Hebrew University ) |
