Geometry-Topology Seminar

The Seminar usually takes place on Tuesdays at 5:00 PM in Room 617 on the sixth floor of Wachman Hall. Please note the new time!

More information on talks, speaker, the Geometry group, and anything else you care about can be found at our blog.

Schedule of Talks - Spring 2012

Tuesday, January 17, 3:40 PM (special undergraduate talk): Henry Segerman, University of Melbourne, Some mathematical sculptures.
Tuesday, January 17, 5:00 PM: Jean Sun, Yale University, Growth, projections and bounded generation of mapping class groups.
Tuesday, January 24, 5:00 PM: Tian Yang, Rutgers University, The skein algebra and the decorated Teichmuller space.
Tuesday, January 31, 4:30 PM: Harold Sultan, Columbia University, Asymptotic geometry of Teichmuller space and divergence.
Tuesday, January 31, 5:45 PM: Inanc Baykur, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Surface bundles and Lefschetz fibrations.
Tuesday, February 14, 4:30 PM: Thomas Church, Stanford University, Representation theory and homological stability.
Tuesday, February 14, 5:45 PM: Mark Sapir, Vanderbilt University, Asymptotic properties of mapping class groups.
Tuesday, February 21, 5:00 PM: Thomas Koberda, Harvard University, Mapping class groups and finite covers.
Tuesday, February 28 (PATCH seminar, joint with Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Penn), time TBA: Morwen Thistlethwaite, University of Tennessee, TBA.
Tuesday, February 28 (PATCH seminar, joint with Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Penn), time TBA: Nancy Hingston, The College of New Jersey, TBA.
Tuesday, March 6: no seminar (spring break)