Current contact: Dave Futer or Matthew Stover
The Seminar usually takes place on Wednesdays at 2:45 PM in Room 617 on the sixth floor of Wachman Hall.
Tuesday February 10, 2009 at 14:30, Wachman 617
Aaron Magid, University of Michigan, The topology of deformation spaces of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Tuesday February 17, 2009 at 14:30, Wachman 617
Chris Atkinson, University of Illinois, Chicago, Volume estimates for hyperbolic Coxeter polyhedra
Tuesday February 24, 2009 at 14:30, Wachman 617
Louis Theran, University of Massachusetts, Combinatorial genericity and minimal rigidity
Tuesday March 17, 2009 at 14:30, Wachman 617
Robert Lipshitz, Columbia University, An introduction to bordered Floer homology
Monday March 23, 2009 at 14:30, Wachman 617
Justin Malestein, University of Chicago, On the self-intersections of curves deep in the lower central series of a surface group
Tuesday March 24, 2009 at 14:00, Wachman 617
Temple University Geometry Festival
Sergio Fenley, Florida State University, Rigidity of pseudo-Anosov flows transverse to R-covered foliations
Tuesday March 24, 2009 at 15:00, Wachman 617
Temple University Geometry Festival
Tao Li, Boston College, A quadratic bound on the number of boundary slopes of essential surfaces
Tuesday March 24, 2009 at 16:30, Wachman 617
Temple University Geometry Festival
Ara Basmajian, Hunter College, CUNY, Half-turns and commutators acting on hyperbolic space
Tuesday April 7, 2009 at 14:30, Wachman 617
Roland Roeder, SUNY Stony Brook, Computing arithmetic invariants for hyperbolic reflection groups
Tuesday September 15, 2009 at 15:30, Wachman 617
PATCH seminar, joint with Bryn Mawr and Haverford
Rob Kusner, University of Massachusetts, Moduli spaces of CMC surfaces, spherical metrics, and complex projective structures
Tuesday September 15, 2009 at 17:00, Wachman 617
PATCH seminar joint with Bryn Mawr and Haverford
Joan Licata, Stanford University, Knot theory and contact lens spaces.
Tuesday September 22, 2009 at 15:30, Wachman 617
Kei Nakamura, Temple University, One-sided Heegaard surfaces of hyperbolic once-punctured torus bundles
Tuesday September 29, 2009 at 15:30, Wachman 617
Michael Dobbins, Temple University, Combinatorial representations of polytopes and realizability as a matrix completion problem
Tuesday October 6, 2009 at 15:30, Bryn Mawr, Park Science Building room 337
PATCH seminar, joint with Bryn Mawr and Haverford
Brad Henry, University of Texas, Connections between existing Legendrian knot invariants.
Tuesday October 6, 2009 at 17:00, Bryn Mawr, Park Science Building room 337
PATCH seminar, joint with Bryn Mawr and Haverford
Roland van der Veen, University of Amsterdam, Dimers and the volume conjecture for planar graphs
Tuesday October 13, 2009 at 15:30, Wachman 617
Dave Futer, Temple University, Cusp areas of fibered 3-manifolds, part I
Tuesday October 20, 2009 at 15:30, Wachman 617
Dave Futer, Temple University, Cusp areas of fibered 3-manifolds, part II
Tuesday November 3, 2009 at 15:30, Wachman 617
PATCH seminar joint with Bryn Mawr and Haverford
Jessica Purcell, Brigham Young University, Volumes, guts, and the Jones polynomial
Tuesday November 3, 2009 at 16:30, Wachman 617
PATCH seminar, joint with Bryn Mawr and Haverford
Dan Rutherford, Duke University, Knot polynomials and invariants of Legendrian knots
Wednesday November 11, 2009 at 13:00, Wachman 617
-Note different day and time-
Peter Scott, University of Michigan, Splittings of groups and manifolds
Tuesday November 17, 2009 at 15:30, Wachman 617
Khalid Bou-Rabee, University of Chicago, Number theory on groups
Tuesday November 24, 2009 at 15:30, Wachman 617
Eugene Gutkin, Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Security and flatness for Riemannian surfaces