Geometry-Topology Seminar

The Seminar usually takes place on Tuesdays at 4:00 PM in Room 617 on the sixth floor of Wachman Hall.

Schedule of Talks - Spring 2015

Tuesday, January 20, 4:00pm: Ivan Izmestiev, FU Berlin, Variational properties of the discrete Hilbert-Einstein functional.
Tuesday, February 3, 4:00pm: Jason Behrstock, CUNY, Curve complexes for cube complexes.
Tuesday, February 10, 4:15pm: (PATCH seminar, joint with Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Penn)
Robert Young, Courant Institute, Filling multiples of embedded curves.
Tuesday, February 10, 5:30pm: (PATCH seminar, joint with Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Penn)
Elisenda Grigsby, Boston College, (Sutured) Khovanov homology and representation theory.
Tuesday, February 24, 4:00pm: Genevieve Walsh, Tufts University, Boundaries of Kleinian groups.
Tuesday, March 10, 4:00pm: Joseph Maher, CUNY, Random walks on weakly hyperbolic groups.
Tuesday, March 31, 4:30pm: Christian Millichap, Temple University, Mutations and geometric invariants of hyperbolic 3-manifolds (thesis defense).
Tuesday, April 28, 4:00pm: Giulio Tiozzo, Yale University, TBA.