BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR

FALL 2002

• September 5:
  NO MEETING
  
  
• September 12:
  Speaker: Holger Reich (University of Muenster)
  Title: Algebraic K-theory of group rings and topological cyclic homology
• September 19:
  Speaker: Tom Braden (University of Massachusetts)
  Title: Torsion in intersection cohomology of Schubert varieties Abstract
• September 26:
  Speaker: P. J. Witbooi (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
  Title: The non-cancellation group of a direct power of a (finite cyclic)-by-cyclic group Abstract
• October 3: (joint with the Combinatorics and Number Theory Seminar)
  Speaker: Jeff Johannes (SUNY - Geneseo)
  Title: The Casson-Walker-Lescop Invariant and Unlinking Abstract
• October 10:
  Speaker: Indira Chatterji (Cornell University)
  Title: On the Bass conjecture. Abstract
• October 17:
  Speaker: Jean-Francois Lafont (Binghamton)
  Title: Rigidity results for singular spaces
• October 24:
  Speaker: Efstratios Prassidis (Canisius College)
  Title: An algebraic approach to the isomorphism conjecture Abstract
• October 31: (joint with the Mathematical Sciences Colloquium)
  Speaker: Robert Bieri (University of Frankfurt)
  Title: Max Dehn and Group Theory
• November 7:
  Speaker: Diarmuid Crowley (Penn State University)
  Title: Kreck's modified surgery theory and the classification of simply connected 7-manifolds
• November 14:
  Speaker: Tara Brendle (Cornell University)
  Title: On the linearity question for mapping class groups Abstract
• November 21:
  Speaker: Matt Brin (Binghamton)
  Title: The braided Thompson group is of type F_infinity
• November 28:
  THANKSGIVING
  
  
• December 5:
  Speaker: Ethan Berkove (Lafayette College)
  Title: The Integral Cohomology of the Bianchi groups Abstract
• December 12:
  Speaker: Thalia Jeffres (Universidad Michoacana, Morelia, Mexico)
  Title: Schwarz Lemma for Kahler Cone Metrics Abstract

SPRING 2003

• January 23:
  NO SPEAKER
  
  
• January 30:
  Speaker: Kai-Uwe Bux (Cornell)
  Title: Thompsonīs group F is maximally non-convex Abstract
• February 6:
  Speaker: James Conant (Cornell University)
  Title: Topological interpretations of Vassiliev invariants Abstract
• February 13:
  Speaker: Heather Johnston (Vassar College)
  Title: Non-resolvable homology manifolds in dimension five
• February 20:
  Speaker: Michael Mihalik (Vanderbilt University)
  Title: Centralizers of Coxeter groups
• February 27:
  Speaker: Paul Loya (Binghamton) First of two talks
  Title: The heat equation on conic manifolds Abstract
• March 6:
  Speaker: Paul Loya (Binghamton) Second of two talks
  Title: The heat equation on conic manifolds Abstract
• March 13:
  SPRING BREAK
  
  
• March 20:
  Speaker: Jean-Francois Lafont (Binghamton)
  Title: Finite automorphisms of negatively curved Poincare duality groups
• March 27:
  Speaker: Ilya Kapovich (University of Illinois - Urbana)
  Title: On generic properties of one-relator groups. Abstract
• April 3:
  Speaker: Elizabeth Klodginski (University of Michigan)
  Title: Essential surfaces in surface bundles over the circle Abstract
• April 10:
  Speaker: CANCELLED
  Title:
• April 17:
  HOLIDAY RECESS
  
  
• April 22 (This is a Tuesday) Joint with the Algebra Seminar:
  Speaker: Dani Wise (McGill University)
  Title: Nonpositive immersions, local indicability and coherence Abstract
• April 24:
  Speaker: Kim Ruane (Tufts University)
  Title: An Introduction to CAT(0) Boundaries and more Abstract
• April 29 (This is a Tuesday):
  Speaker: Ivonne Ortiz (Binghamton)
  Title: The lower algebraic K-theory of GAMMA_3 Abstract
  (This is Ms Ortiz's dissertation defense)
• May 1:
  CORNELL TOPOLOGY FESTIVAL
  
  
• Monday, May 5 (joint with the Combinatorics and Number Theory Seminar) (Note special day.)
  Speaker: Isabel Cristina Ruiz (Binghamton)
  Title: Combinatorializing Vector Bundles
  Time: 1:10 - 2:10
  Room: LN-2205
  This is the first part of Ms. Ruiz's doctoral candidacy exam.
• Tuesday, May 6 (joint with the Combinatorics and Number Theory Seminar) (Note special day.)
  Speaker: Isabel Cristina Ruiz (Binghamton)
  Title: Topologizing Combinatorial Bundles
  Time: 1:15 - 2:15
  Room: LN-2205
  This is the second part of Ms. Ruiz's doctoral candidacy exam.
• May 8:
  Speaker: Laura Anderson (Binghamton)
  Title: Linked Spheres in Oriented Matroids Abstract

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