CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar

2018 — 2019

Unless a change is noted below, the CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar takes place at 4:15pm on Tuesdays in Room 6496 (note we are in a different room than usual this semester!) of the Graduate Center, located at 365 Fifth Avenue across the street from the Empire State Building. All are welcome.

Click on the title of a talk for the abstract (if available).

Spring 2019
February 5, 2019 Dragomir Saric (CUNY) Measured laminations and train tracks on infinite surfaces
February 12, 2019 No seminar today Happy Birthday Lincoln!
February 19, 2019 Andrew Yarmola (Princeton) Hyperbolic 3-manifolds with low cusp volume
February 26, 2019 Alexander Stas (GC) Translation distance bounds for fibered 3-manifolds with boundary
March 5, 2019
Special time: 4pm		 Arie Levit (Yale) Surface groups and flexibly stable
March 12
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TIME: 3pm and 4:15pm		 Nicholas Vlamis (CUNY) Exploring algebraic rigidity in mapping class groups
Davide Spriano (ETH, Zurich) Local to global morse properties, convexity and hierarchically hyperbolic spaces
March 19, 2019 Ara Basmajian (CUNY) The geodesic flow on infinite type hyperbolic surfaces
March 26, 2019 Margaret Nichols (Chicago) Taut sutured handlebodies as twisted homology products
April 2, 2019 Slava Krushkal (UVa) Combinatorics of planar triangulations and quantum topology
April 9, 2019 Elizabeth Field (UIUC) Trees, dendrites, and the Cannon-Thurston map
April 16, 2019 Maggie Miller (Princeton) Banded unlink diagrams of surfaces in arbitrary 4-manifolds
April 23, 2019 No seminar today Spring Break
April 30, 2019 Mark Hagen (Bristol) Hierarchically hyperbolic spaces and quasi-cube complexes
May 7, 2019 Alice Kwon (CUNY) Geometric structures on prime 3-manifolds
May 14, 2019 Diana Hubbard (CUNY) The braid index of highly twisted braid closures


Fall 2018
September 4, 2018 Yulan Qing (Toronto) Loops with Large Twist Get Short Along Quasi-geodesics in Out(Fn)
September 11, 2018 No seminar today
September 18, 2018 No seminar today
September 25, 2018 Saul Schleimer (Warwick) An introduction to veering triangulations
October 2, 2018 Moritz Gruber (Karlsruhe & NYU) Higher divergence of Heisenberg groups
October 9, 2018 No seminar today
October 16, 2018 Nick Salter (Columbia) The non-realizability of braid groups by diffeomorphisms
October 23, 2018 Ken Bromberg (Utah) The gradient flow for renormalized volume
October 30, 2018 David Fisher (Indiana) Group actions, warped cones and expanders
November 6, 2018 No seminar today General election: go vote!
November 13, 2018 Ilya Kapovich (CUNY) Index properties of random automorphisms of free groups
November 20, 2018 No seminar today
November 27, 2018 Valentina Disarlo (Heidelberg) Cubical geometry in the polygonalization complex
December 4, 2018 Tim Morris (Temple) Non-abelian covers of knots from the Alexander polynomial


Upcoming events in the area:



Related student seminars:

Reading Seminar on Hyperbolic 3-manifolds (organized by Abhijit Champanerkar)

Schedule from previous years.

Related seminars in the NYC area:


This seminar is partially supported by the National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation.
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