CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar

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February 5, 2013	Daniel Ramras (New Mexico State University)	Moduli spaces of representations
February 12	No seminar today	CUNY holiday
February 19	Babak Modami (Yale)	Ending laminations for Weil-Petersson geodesics
February 26	Martin Bridgeman (Boston College)	The Pressure metric for convex Anosov representations
March 5	Jayadev Athreya (UIUC)	Counting special trajectories for right-angled billiards and pillowcase covers
March 12 Double Header 3pm and 4:15pm	Timothy Susse (CUNY GC)	SCL and Knot Complements
	Yulan Qing (Tufts)	Actions of right-angled coxeter groups on the Croke-Kleiner space
March 19 Double Header 3pm (Room 3310) and 4:15pm	Gregory Fein (Rutgers)	A Polynomial Growth Recognition Theorem for Out(F_n)
	William Menasco (SUNY Buffalo)	The Kawamuro Cone and the Jones' Conjecture.
March 26	No seminar today	Spring Break
April 2	No seminar today	Spring Break
April 9	Viveca Erlandsson (CUNY GC)	On Margulis Cusps of Hyperbolic 4-Manifolds
April 16	Priyam Patel (Rutgers)	Quantifying Residual Finiteness and LERF-ness in Terms of Geometric Data
April 23	Mark Feighn (Rutgers)	Subsurface projection in the Out(F_n)-setting
April 30	Ilya Gekhtman (University of Chicago)	Patterson-Sullivan Theory for Subgroups of Mapping Class Groups and Orbit Counting in Teichmuller Space
May 7	Jane Gilman (Rutgers)	Palindromes, Hyperbolic Geometry, and PSL(2,C) discreteness sequences
May 14

Reading Seminar on Cubical Complexes and RAAGs
Hyperbolic Geometry Student Seminar

Schedule from previous years.

• September 14-15, 2012, Hyperbolic Geometry and Teichmuller Theory; at Hunter College CUNY
  
• September 21-22, 2012, Group Theory on the Hudson ; at Stevens Institute of Technology (September 21) and Hunter College CUNY (September 22)
  
• April 3-5, 2013, Simplicity ; at the Graduate Center, CUNY
  
• August 12-16, 2013, Geometric Topology in New York ; at Columbia University
  

• 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