CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar

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

September 17, 2012	David Fisher (University of Indiana)	Hodge theory for group cohomology and local rigidity
September 24	Adam Lowrance (Vassar)	Measuring a knot's distance from alternating
October 1	Mehmet Haluk Sengun (University of Warwick / ICERM)	Torsion homology of Bianchi Groups and Arithmetic manifolds
October 8	Mahan Mj (RKM Vivekananda University)	Homotopical Height
October 15	No seminar today
October 22 Meeting in: Room C205	Wolfgang Lueck (Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics and Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitae)	Hyperbolic groups with spheres as boundary
October 29	Brian Rushton (Temple)	Quasi-isometry properties of subdivision rules
November 5	Sang-hyun Kim (KAIST)	Embeddability between right-angled Artin groups
November 12	Sara Maloni (Brown)	Combinatorial methods on actions on character varieties
November 19	Liam Watson (UCLA)	Khovanov homology and the symmetry group of a knot
November 26	No seminar today
December 3	Hyungryul Baik (Cornell)	Laminations on the Circle and Cannon's Conjecture
December 10	Alessandro Sisto (ETH)	Boundaries of relatively hyperbolic groups

Reading Seminar on Hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Hyperbolic Geometry Student Seminar

Schedule from previous years.

• June 6-10, 2011, Faces of Geometry: 3-manifolds, Groups, and Singularities; at Columbia University
  
• August 1-5, 2011, CBMS-NSF conference: 3-Manifolds, Artin Groups, and Cubical Geometery; at CUNY Graduate Center
  

• Introduction to Hyperbolic 3-manifolds
• Introduction to Mapping Class Groups

Related seminars in the NYC area:

• Columbia Geometric Topology Seminar
• CUNY Complex Analysis & Dynamics Seminar
• CUNY Magnus Seminar