BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR

FALL 2001

• August 30:
  no meeting
  
  
• September 6:
  Speaker: Laura Anderson (Binghamton University)
  Title: Topology of oriented matroids Abstract
• September 13: Postponed until Tuesday, September 25
  Speaker: Laura Anderson (Binghamton University)
  Title: Prospects in combinatorial differential manifolds and matroid bundles Abstract
• September 20:
  Speaker: Robert Bieri (University of Frankfurt)
  Title: Finiteness properties of certain groups of braids of infinite degree
• September 25: Tuesday, 4:30 PM. Note unusual day and time
  Speaker: Laura Anderson (Binghamton University)
  Title: Prospects in combinatorial differential manifolds and matroid bundles Abstract
• September 27:
  YOM KIPPUR
  
  
• October 4:
  Speaker: Arthur Bartels (University of Muenster)
  Title: "Squeezing" for higher algebraic K-theory
• October 11:
  Speaker: Alina Vdovina (Binghamton University)
  Title: Combinatorial structure of some hyperbolic buildings
• October 16: Tuesday, 2:50 PM. Note unusual day.
  Speaker: Noel Brady (University of Oklahoma and Texas A&M University)
  Title: On dimensions of CAT(0) and CAT(-1) groups
• October 18:
  Speaker: James Stasheff (Univeristy of North Carolina and University of Pennsylvania)
  Title: Cohomological Physics: a Survey
• October 25:
  Speaker: Matt Brin (Binghamton University)
  Title: Higher dimensional Thompson groups
• November 1:
  Speaker: Peter Hilton (Binghamton University)
  Title: The Lusternik-Schnirelmann Category in Homotopy Theory
• November 8:
  Speaker: Steve Ferry (Rutgers University)
  Title: Pushing manifolds together
• November 15:
  Speaker: Siddhartha Gadgil (SUNY at Stony Brook)
  Title: Contact structures on elliptic manifolds and Equivariant framings
• November 22:
  THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
  
  
• November 29:
  Speaker: Bruce Williams (University of Notre Dame)
  Title: Higher Reidemeister Torsion
• December 6:
  Speaker: Kai-Uwe Bux (Cornell University)
  Title: Finiteness Properties of Houghton Braid Groups. Abstract
• December 11: Joint with the Algebra Seminar Tuesday, 2:50 PM. Note unusual day.
  Speaker: Jim Davis (Indiana University)
  Title: Manifolds whose fundamental group is the infinite dihedral group
• December 13:
  Speaker: Stan Wagon (Macalester College)
  Title: A Constructive View of the Banach-Tarski Paradox
  Colloquium title: A Computational View of the Four-Color Theorem: A Resuscitation of a Famous False Proof
  See reviews of Stan Wagon's papers for a view of his interests. (Institutional subscription to MathSciNet is needed for viewing.)

SPRING 2002

• January 31:
  Speaker: Bruce Kleiner (University of Michigan and NYU)
  Title: Quasiconformal geometry in metric spaces Abstract
• February 7:
  Speaker: Mati Rubin (Ben Gurion University & University of Colorado)
  Title: Reconstructing topological spaces from their auto-homeomorphism groups Abstract
• February 14:
  Speaker: Vladimir Chernov (Darthmouth)
  Title: Vassiliev invariants of Framed, Pseudo-Legendrian and Legendrian knots in contact 3-manifolds. Abstract
• February 21:
  Speaker: Tadeusz Januszkiewicz (Wroclaw and Binghamton)
  Title: Hyperbolic Coxeter groups of large dimension
• February 28:
  Speaker: Lisa Carbone (Rutgers University)
  Title: Reconstructing group actions
• March 7:
  Speaker: David Rosenthal (Binghamton University)
  Title: A Splitting Result in Algebraic K-theory
• March 14:
  Speaker: Richard Schwartz (U. of Maryland, College Park)
  Title: Hyperbolic structures on the complements of selected fractals Abstract
• March 21:
  Speaker: Erik Pedersen (Binghamton University)
  Title: Squeezing
• March 28:
  SPRING BREAK
  
  
• April 4:
  Speaker: Dan Farley (Penn State U.)
  Title: The Haagerup property for Thompson's groups
• April 11:
  Speaker: Karen Vogtmann (Cornell U.)
  Title: Operations on graphs and graph homologies
• April 18:
  Speaker: Patrick Eberlein, Univ. of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
  Title: Structure of the space of 2-step nilpotent Lie algebras Abstract
• April 22, 4:40 PM (Monday - note unusual date and time):
  Speaker: Jaroslaw Kedra (Szczecin University and Polish Academy of Sciences)
  Title: Characteristic classes of smooth fibrations from fiber integrals
• April 25:
  Speaker: C. Sastry Aravinda (Binghamton and Chennai Math. Inst.)
  Title: Exotic smooth structures on quaternionic and Cayley hyperbolic manifolds.
• May 2:
  Speaker: Jan Dymara (Ohio State University and Wroclaw)
  Title: L²-cohomology of very thin buildings.
• May 2: (Same date as previous entry. The talk will start at 4:30.)
  Speaker: Michael Davis (Ohio State University)
  Title: Salvetti complex and the l²-cohomology of Artin groups
• May 9:
  Speaker: Andrew Ranicki (Edinburgh University)
  Title: Noncommutative localization in algebra and topology

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