CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar

2012-2013


Unless a change is noted below, the CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar takes place at 4:15pm on Tuesdays in Room 3212 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).

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.




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