Unless stated otherwise, the seminar takes place Thursdays at 2:50-3:50 pm
in LN 2205 followed by refreshments served from 4:00-4:25 pm in the Anderson
Memorial Reading Room.
Directions to the department.
LN-2205 is on the same floor as the department offices. Stop at the
department offices at LN-2200 and ask directions.
Some seminar speakers will also give a colloquium talk at 4:30 in SW 323
on the same day as the seminar talk. Titles of the colloquium talks
are also given below where they apply.
This seminar is funded as one of 18 Dean's Workshops In Harpur
College (College of Arts and Sciences) at Binghamton University.
FALL 2000
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August 31:
Speaker: John Meier (Binghamton and Lafayette)
Title: Improper Actions and Duality
Abstract.
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September 7:
Speaker: Erik Pedersen (Binghamton)
Title: Periodicity in the surgery exact sequence
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September 14:
Speaker: C. Sastry Aravinda (Binghamton and Chennai Math. Inst.)
Title: Exceptional sets of certain ergodic systems and
Hausdorff dimension (first of two talks)
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September 21:
Speaker: C. Sastry Aravinda (Binghamton and Chennai Math. Inst.)
Title: Exceptional sets of certain ergodic systems and
Hausdorff dimension (second of two talks)
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September 28:
Speaker: Chris Hruska (Cornell)
Title: Quasiconvexity in nonpositively curved spaces with
isolated flats
Abstract.
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October 5:
Speaker: James Worthington (Binghamton)
Title: Graph products and Cannon pairs
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October 12:
Speaker: Jon McCammond (Texas A&M)
Title: Calculating curvature in concrete complexes
Abstract.
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October 19:
Speaker: G. A. Swarup (Melbourne)
Title: Regular neighbourhoods and canonical decompositions
for groups Abstract
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October 26:
Speaker: Dirk Schuetz (Binghamton)
Title: Morse theory of closed 1-forms
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November 2:
Speaker: Ronnie Lee (Yale)
Title: Intersection forms of even 4-manifolds
Abstract
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November 9:
Speaker: Xiaochun Rong (Rutgers)
Title: Positive pinching and injective radius
Abstract
Colloquium title: Positive
Curvature and Fundamental Groups
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November 16:
Speaker: Peter Linnell (Virginia Tech)
Title: L^2 Betti numbers and group extensions
Abstract
Colloquium title: Left
ordered groups
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November 23:
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
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December 1: NOTE: This is a Friday. Meeting time - 4:40
Speaker: Laura Anderson (Texas A&M)
Title: Matroid bundles and sphere bundles
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December 7:
Speaker: Tom Farrell (Binghamton)
Title: The best of all possible maps is sometimes not good enough
SPRING 2001
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January 25:
Speaker: David Bessis (Yale)
Title: Exotic monoids for braid groups
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February 1:
Speaker:
Title:
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February 8:
Speaker: Holger Reich (Munster)
Title: The isomorphism conjecture implies one third of the
Atiyah conjecture
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February 15:
Speaker: Daniel Pineda (Binghamton and UNAM)
Title: Spectral sequences in computing algebraic K-theory
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February 22:
Speaker: Lee Mosher (Rutgers)
Title: Quasi-actions on trees
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March 1:
Speaker: Stratos Prassidis (Rochester)
Title: Topological Rigidity of Coxeter and other CAT(0)-groups
Abstract
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March 8:
Speaker: Christophe Pittet (Cornell)
Title: Dehn functions of arithmetic groups
Abstract
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March 15:
SPRING BREAK
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March 22:
Speaker: David Rosenthal (Binghamton)
Title: C* algebras and K-theory. I
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March 29:
Speaker:
Title:
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April 5:
Speaker: David Rosenthal (Binghamton)
Title: C* algebras and K-theory. II
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April 12:
Speaker: Fred Cohen (Rochester)
Title: Braids, links, and homotopy groups
Abstract
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April 19:
Speaker:
Title:
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April 26:
Speaker:
Title:
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May 3:
Speaker: Frank Quinn (Virginia Tech)
Title: Stability for controlled surgery obstructions
Abstract
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May 10:
Speaker:
Title:
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