Geometry-Topology Seminar

The Seminar usually takes place on Tuesdays at 3:30 PM in Room 617 on the sixth floor of Wachman Hall.

Schedule of Talks - Spring 2010

January 26, 3:30 PM: Chris Atkinson, Temple University, A combinatorial lower bound on the volume of hyperbolic Coxeter polyhedra.
February 2, 3:30 PM: Will Cavendish, Princeton University, On the growth rate of the Weil-Petersson diameter of moduli space.
February 9, 3:30 PM: Ara Basmajian, CUNY, Length bounds for self-intersecting geodesics .
February 16, 3:30 PM: Moon Duchin, University of Michigan, Measuring the failure of hyperbolicity.
February 23, 3:30 PM: Shawn Rafalski, Fairfield University, Small hyperbolic polyhedra.
March 2, 3:30 PM: Joseph Maher, CUNY, Generic elements of the mapping class group.
March 16, 3:30 PM: Ken Shackleton, University of Tokyo, On the coarse geometry of Teichmuller space.
March 23, 3:30 PM: Louis Theran, Temple University, Parallel redrawing, rigidity, and slider-pinning.
April 6, 3:30 PM: Ian Biringer, Yale University, Geometric consequences of algebraic rank in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
April 13, 3:30 PM: Karin Melnick, University of Maryland, Normal forms for conformal vector fields.
Monday April 19, 3:30 PM: (in room 447, joint with Bryn Mawr & Haverford) John Baldwin, Princeton University, Contact monoids and Stein cobordisms.
Monday April 19, 5:00 PM: (in room 447, joint with Bryn Mawr & Haverford) Josh Sabloff, Haverford College, Lagrangian caps for Legendrian knots via generating families.