CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar

2021 — 2022

Unless a change is noted below, the CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar takes place at 4:15pm on Tuesdays in Room 6417 of the Graduate Center, located at 365 Fifth Avenue across the street from the Empire State Building ONLINE (link will be emailed to those on the seminar mailing list). All are welcome.

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


Fall 2021
September 14, 2021
(via zoom)		 Sayantan Khan (Michigan) The limit set of non-orientable mapping class groups
September 21, 2021
(via zoom)		 Tim Susse (Bard College at Simon's Rock) When is a RACG QI to a RAAG?
September 28, 2021
(via zoom)		 Sahana Balasubramanya (Munster) Actions of solvable groups on hyperbolic spaces
October 5, 2021
(via zoom)		 Bena Tshishiku (Brown) Convex cocompact subgroups of the Goeritz group
October 12, 2021
(via zoom)		 Marc Schilder (Buffalo) The A-Polynomial and Knot Volume
October 19, 2021
(via zoom)		 Annette Karrer (Technion) Contracting boundaries of right-angled Coxeter groups
October 26, 2021
(via zoom)		 MurphyKate Montee (Carleton) Cubulating Random Groups at Densities less than 3/14
November 2, 2021
(via zoom)		 Dongryul Kim (Yale) SLLN for asymptotic translation lengths of random isometries on Gromov hyperbolic spaces and Teichmuller spaces
November 9, 2021
(via zoom)		 Sam Hughes (Oxford)
November 16, 2021
(via zoom)		 Emily Thompson (Monash)
November 23, 2021
(via zoom)		 Alexandre Martin (Heriot-Watt)
November 30, 2021
(via zoom)		 Moshe Cohen (SUNY New Paltz)
December 7, 2021
(via zoom)		 Joseph Boninger (CUNY GC) The Jones Polynomial from a Goeritz Matrix


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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