Geometry-Topology Seminar
Contact:
Dave Futer or Igor RivinThe Seminar usually takes place on Tuesdays at 3:30 PM in Room 617 on
the sixth floor of Wachman Hall.
Schedule of Talks - Fall 2009
- September 15, 3:30PM: (joint with Bryn Mawr and
Haverford) Rob
Kusner, University of Massachusetts,
Moduli spaces of CMC
surfaces, spherical metrics, and complex projective
structures.
- September 15, 5:00PM: (joint with Bryn Mawr and
Haverford) Joan
Licata, Stanford University,
Knot theory and contact lens
spaces.
- September 22, 3:30PM: Kei
Nakamura, Temple University,
One-sided Heegaard surfaces of
hyperbolic once-punctured torus bundles.
- September 29, 3:30PM: Michael Dobbins, Temple University,
Combinatorial representations of polytopes and realizability as a matrix
completion problem.
- October 6, 3:45PM: (at Bryn Mawr, Park
Science Building room 337)
Brad Henry, University of Texas, Connections between existing Legendrian knot invariants.
- October 6, 5:00PM: (at Bryn Mawr, Park
Science Building room 337)
Roland van der Veen, University of Amsterdam, Dimers and the volume conjecture for planar graphs.
- October 13, 3:30PM: Dave
Futer, Temple University,
Cusp areas of fibered 3-manifolds, part
I.
- October 20, 3:30PM: Dave
Futer, Temple University,
Cusp areas of fibered 3-manifolds,
part II.
- November 3, 3:30PM: (joint with Bryn Mawr and
Haverford) Jessica Purcell,
Brigham Young University,
Volumes, guts, and the Jones
polynomial.
- November 3, 4:45PM: (joint with Bryn Mawr and
Haverford) Dan
Rutherford, Duke University,
Knot polynomials and invariants
of Legendrian knots.
- Wednesday November 11, 1:00 PM:
Peter
Scott, University of Michigan,
Splittings of groups and manifolds.
- November 17, 3:30 PM: Khalid Bou-Rabee,
University of Chicago,
Number theory on groups.
- November 24, 3:30 PM: Eugene Gutkin,
Institute of Mathematics of the
Polish Academy of Sciences,
Security and flatness for Riemannian
surfaces.
Past Geometry-Topology Schedules
Spring 2009 | Fall 2008 |