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.
More information on talks, speaker, the Geometry group, and anything
else you care about can be found at
our blog.
Schedule of Talks - Spring 2011
- Tuesday, January 18, 3:30 PM:
Steven Simon,
New York University,
Two Generalizations of the Ham Sandwich Theorem.
- Tuesday, January 18, 5:00 PM:
Matteo Castronovo,
Temple University,
The Effect of Confinement on Molecular Mechanism Inside Bio-Nanosensors.
- Tuesday, February 8, 3:30 PM:
Mike Davis,
Institute for Advanced Study,
Right-angledness, flag complexes,
asphericity.
- Tuesday, February 15, 3:30 PM:
Johanna Mangahas Kutluhan,
Brown University,
Geometry of right-angled Artin groups in
mapping class groups.
- Thursday, February 17, 4:00 PM: (at Penn,
DRL room
3C8)
John Etnyre, Georgia Tech, The Contact Sphere Theorem and Tightness in Contact Metric Manifolds. - Thursday, February 17, 5:30 PM: (at Penn, DRL room 3C8)
Robert Ghrist, University of Pennsylvania, Braid Floer Homology. - Tuesday, February 22, 3:30 PM:
Elena Fuchs,
Institute for Advanced Study,
Counting in Apollonian circle packings.
- Tuesday, February 22, 5:00 PM:
Tim DeVries,
University of Pennsylvania,
An Algorithm for Bivariate Singularity Analysis.
- Tuesday, March 1, 3:30 PM:
Shiva Kasiviswanathan,
IBM,
The Price of Privately Releasing Contingency Tables and the Spectra of Random Matrices with Correlated Rows.
- Thursday, March 17, 3:15 PM: (joint with Bryn
Mawr, Haverford, and Penn)
Joel Hass, UC Davis, Width invariants and the physical motion of curves through a medium. - Thursday, March 17, 4:45 PM: (joint with
Bryn
Mawr, Haverford, and Penn)
Vera Vertesi, MIT, Transverse positive braid satelites. - Tuesday, March 29, 3:30 PM:
Ryan Blair,
University of Pennsylvania,
Bridge Number and Conway Products.
- Wednesday, April 6, 4:00 PM: (at
The Institute for Advanced
Study)
Anne Thomas, Unversity of Sydney, Infinite generation of non-cocompact lattices on right-angled buildings. - Thursday, April 7, 4:00 PM: (at Haverford College, KINSC H108)
Colin Adams, Williams College, Surfaces in Hyperbolic Knot Complements. - Thursday, April 7, 5:15 PM: (at Haverford College, KINSC H108)
Lenhard Ng, Duke University, Transverse Homology. - Tuesday, April 12, 3:30 PM:
Dylan Thurston,
Barnard College, Columbia Unversity,
Stress matrices and rigidity.
- Tuesday, April 12, 5:00 PM:
Nathan Dunfield,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
The least spanning area of a knot and
the Optimal Bounding Chain Problem.
- Tuesday, April 26, 3:30 PM:
Julien Roger,
Rutgers University,
Quantum Teichmueller theory and conformal field theory.
- Tuesday, April 26, 5:00 PM:
Rob Kusner,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
Knots and Links as Ropes, Bands and Branched Coverings.
Past Geometry-Topology Schedules
Fall 2010 | Spring 2010 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2009 | Fall 2008