CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar

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February 7	Tian Yang (Rutgers)	The Skein Algebra and the Decorated Teichmuller Space
February 14	Craig Hodgson (Melbourne University, visiting Boston College)	On the number of hyperbolic 3-manifolds with a given volume
February 21	No seminar today	CUNY Classes follow Monday Schedule
February 28	Shawn Rafalski (Fairfield)	The smallest Haken hyperbolic polyhedra
March 6 Double Header Special time/room: 2pm and 3pm Room 6494	Jean Sun (Yale)	Growth, projections and bounded generation of mapping class groups
	Slava Krushkal (Virginia)	Slicing the Hopf link
March 13	Mark Hagen (McGill)	Simplices at infinity for CAT(0) cube complexes
March 20	Lee Mosher (Rutgers)	Hyperbolicity of the free splitting complex of F_n
March 27	David Shea Vela-Vick (Columbia)	The equivalence of transverse link invariants in knot Floer homology
April 3	Thomas Koberda (Harvard)	Postponed until next semester -- No seminar today.
April 10	No seminar today	Spring Break
April 17	Andrew Manion (Princeton)	Totally twisted Khovanov homology
April 24	Adam Knapp (Columbia)	Diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds
May 1	Howard Masur (University of Chicago)	Winning sets of Diophantine measured foliations
May 8	Johanna Mangahas Kutluhan (Brown)	Some Schottky subgroups of mapping class groups

Fall 2011 Semester:

September 13	Olga Kharlampovich (Hunter, CUNY)	Approximation of Geodesics in Metabelian Groups
September 20	Mark Feighn (Rutgers)	Hyperbolicity of the complex of free factors (with Mladen Bestvina)
September 27	Adam Levine (Brandeis)	A combinatorial spanning tree model for knot Floer homology
October 4	No seminar today	CUNY Classes follow Friday Schedule
October 11	Will Cavendish (Princeton)	Finite-sheeted covering spaces of 3-manifolds, engulfing, and solenoids
October 18	No seminar today
October 25	Harold Sultan (Columbia)	Asymptotic Geometry of Teichmuller Space: Thickness and Divergence
November 1	Dymtro Savchuk (SUNY Binghamton)	Schreier graphs and Schreier dynamical system of the action of Thompson's group F on the Cantor set
November 8	Radmila Sazdanovic (University of Pennsylvania)	Categorification of the polynomial ring Z[x]
November 15	No seminar today
November 22	No seminar today	CUNY Classes follow Thursday Schedule
November 29	Lucas Sabalka (SUNY Binghamton)	Projection in the sphere complex
December 6	Neal Stoltzfus (LSU)	The Jones polynomial of periodic knots: an application of the transfer method to the ribbon graph rank polynomial

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
  

Related seminars in the NYC area:

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