BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR

FALL 2003

• September 11:
  Speaker: Erik Pedersen
  Title: Smoothing Loop Spaces (abstract)
• September 18:
  Speaker: Ross Geoghegan
  Title: Remarks on Finiteness Properties of Groups (abstract)
• September 25:
  Speaker: Erik Pedersen
  Title: Smoothing Loop Spaces (part 2) (abstract)
• October 2:
  Speaker: Nathan Broaddus (Cornell)
  Title: Noncyclic Covers of Knot Complements (abstract)
• October 10: (Friday 5:15 PM):
  Speaker: Octav Cornea (Montreal)
  Title: The Serre Spectral Sequence and Lagrangian Intersections (abstract)
• October 16 :
  Speaker: Woong Kook (University of Rhode Island)
  Title: Homology of Cycle Matroids of Complete Graphs (abstract)
• October 23:
  Speaker: J. Lafont
  Title: Rigidity and Negative Curvature
• October 30:
  Speaker: Alain Valette (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)
  Title: Harmonic maps and Property T for Sp(n,1) (after Gromov and Shalom) (abstract)
• November 6:
  Speaker: Pedro Ontaneda
  Title: Ricci Flow and Pinched Negative Curvature
• November 13:
  Speaker: Erik Pedersen
  Title: Smoothing Loop Spaces (part 3) (abstract)
• November 20:
  Speaker: Kevin Wortman (Cornell)
  Title: S-arithmetic lattices and quasi-isometric rigidity (abstract)
• November 24: (Monday 3:30 PM)
  Speaker: Pavle Blagojevic (University of Belgrade)
  Title: How to complicate a "simple" problem": Computational topology of equivariant maps from spheres to complement of arrangements (abstract)
• November 27:
  THANKSGIVING
  
  
• December 4:
  Speaker: Kai-Uwe Bux
  Title: Braiding the chessboard complex (abstract)
• December 11:
  Speaker: Christina W. Tonnesen-Friedman (Union)
  Title: Weakly Bochner Flat Kahler metrics - Kahler geometry meets symplectic topology (abstract)

SPRING 2004

• January 22:
  Speaker: (none)
  Title: (organizational meeting)
• January 29:
  Speaker: Tom Zaslavsky
  Title: Homotopy in Biased Graphs: Combinatorics vs. Topology (abstract)
• February 5:
  Speaker: Dikran Karagueuzian
  Title: The Components of a Variety of Matrices and Free Actions on Products of Spheres (abstract)
• February 12:
  Speaker: Matt Brin
  Title: Dehornoy's structure groups of algebraic identities (abstract)
• February 19:
  Speaker: Jean-Francois Lafont
  Title: Marked length rigidity for one-dimensional spaces (abstract)
• February 26:
  Speaker: Tara Brendle (Cornell)
  Title: The Birman-Craggs-Johnson homomorphism and abelian cycles in the Torelli group (abstract)
• March 4:
  Speaker: Adam Sikora (Buffalo)
  Title: An invitation to arithmetic topology (abstract)
• March 11:
  SPRING RECESS
  
  
• March 18:
  Speaker: Pat McAuley
  Title: Two Examples in the Theory of Hurewicz Fibrations (abstract)
• March 25:
  Speaker: Stratos Prassidis (Canisius)
  Title:Monomorphisms on Pure Braid Groups (abstract)
• March 31: (Wednesday at 4:40PM!)
  Speaker: Murray Elder (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
  Title:Regular, context-free and counter languages of geodesics (abstract)
• April 1:
  Speaker: Nic Koban
  Title: Topological Invariants of Translation Actions (abstract)
• April 8:
  SPRING HOLIDAYS
  
  
• April 15:
  Speaker: Julia Wilson (SUNY-Fredonia)
  Title: The Croke and Kleiner Boundaries (abstract)
• April 16 (3:30 PM):
  Speaker: Paul Gunnells (University of Massachusetts)
  Title: Signature defects, cusp singularities, and special values of L-functions (abstract)
• April 22:
  Speaker: Peter Linnell (Virginia Tech)
  Title: L^2 Betti Numbers of One-Relator Groups (abstract)
• April 29: (CANCELLED!)
  Speaker: David Fisher (CUNY-Lehman)
  Title: Local Rigidity of Group Actions (abstract)
• May 6:
  Speaker: Peter Ozsváth (Columbia)
  Title: Holomorphic Disks and Low-Dimensional Topology (abstract)

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