CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar2008-2009
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Click on the title of a talk for the abstract (if available).
| September 10 | Lee Mosher (Rutgers, Newark) | Subgroup classification in Out(Fn) |
| September 17 | Joseph Maher (CUNY Staten Island) | Asymptotics for pseudo-Anosovs in the Teichmuller lattice |
| September 24 | No seminar today | |
| October 1 | No regular seminar today | Go to: Finitely Presented Groups: Where do we go from here at City College |
| October 2 | Day two of the conference at City College | |
| October 8 | Jason Manning (SUNY Buffalo) | Virtually geometric words and Whitehead's algorithm |
| October 15 | Ara Basmajian (CUNY Hunter) | Crossing number of closed geodesics and their lengths |
| October 22 | Cynthia Curtis (The College of New Jersey) | The Jones polynomial and boundary slopes of alternating knots |
| October 29 | Roland van der Veen (KdV Institute, University of Amsterdam) | Quantum Schur-Weyl duality and twisted torus knots |
| November 5 Double Header 4pm and 5pm |
Jeremy Kahn (SUNY Stony Brook) | Essential Immersed Surfaces in Closed Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds |
| Chloe Perin (Hebrew University) | Definable subsets and cyclic subgroups of the free group | |
| November 12 | Alexander Shumakovitch (George Washington University) | Homologically Z_2-thin knots have no 4-torsion in Khovanov homology |
| November 19 | Rob Schneiderman (CUNY Lehman) | Geometric filtrations of link concordance |
| November 26 |
No seminar today | |
| December 3 |
Matt Clay (Allegheny College) | Current twisting and nonsingular matrices |
| September 11 | Jason Behrstock (Lehman College, CUNY) | Asymptotic geometry of infinite groups, an introduction |
| Wednesday, September 17 Note special day |
Dragomir Saric (Queens College, CUNY) | The mapping class group cannot be realized by homeomorphisms |
| September 25 | Abhijit Champanerkar (Staten Island College, CUNY) | Around the A-polynomial |
| October 2 | Adam Knapp (Columbia University) | Monopoles and Montesinos Twins |
| October 9 | No seminar today | |
| October 16 | No seminar today | |
| October 23 | No seminar today | |
| October 30 | Tullia Dymarz (Yale University) | Large scale geometry of certain solvable Lie groups |
| November 6 | Natasa Macura (Trininty University and Brandeis University) | CAT(0) spaces with polynomial divergence of geodesics |
| November 13 | No seminar today | |
| November 20 | Danny Calegari (California Institute of Technology) | Combable functions, quasimorphisms, and the central limit theorem |
| November 27 |
No seminar today | |
| December 4 |
Joan Birman (Columbia University) | Heegaard splittings and the CGO invariant of a 3-manifold |
| December 11 | Adam Lowrance (Louisiana State University) | The Khovanov width of closed 3-braids |
| February 5 | Michael Handel (Lehman College, CUNY) | Subgroups of Out(Fn) |
| February 12 | No seminar today | |
| February 19 | Igor Rivin (Temple University) | Curves and coverings of surfaces |
| February 26 | Melvyn Nathanson (Lehman College, CUNY) | Two problems in number theory related to geometric group theory |
| March 5 | Christina Sormani (Lehman College, CUNY) | Covering Spectra of Riemannian manifolds and Metric spaces |
| March 12 | Denis Osin (Vanderbilt University) | Dehn surgery in groups acting on hyperbolic spaces |
| March 19 | David Futer (Temple University) | The geometry of unknotting tunnels |
| March 26 | Yael Algom-Kfir (University of Utah) | Negative Curvature Phenomena in Outer Space |
| April 2 | Dylan Thurston (Barnard College, Columbia University) | Computing with curves on surfaces |
| April 9 | No seminar today | |
| April 16 | No seminar today | |
| April 23 | Josh Greene (Princeton University) | Quasi-alternating links and lens space surgeries |
| April 30 | Xiaobo Liu (Columbia University) | Kashaev coordinates on Teichmuller space |
| May 7 | David Fisher (Indiana University and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard) | Rigidity of Anosov Zd actions |
| May 14 | Philip Ording (Medgar Evers College, CUNY) | Constructing Heegaard knot diagrams for (1,1) knots |
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