BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR

FALL 2004

• September 2:
  Speaker: (none)
  
  
• September 9:
  Speaker: Indira Chatterji (Cornell)
  Title: On the Geoghegan conjecture. (abstract)
• September 16:
  ROSH HASHANAH
  
  
• September 23:
  Speaker: James Belk (Cornell)
  Title: Forest diagrams for Thompson's group F
• September 30:
  Speaker: L. Brian Lawrence (George Mason University)
  Title: A rigid subspace of the real line whose square is a homogeneous subspace of the plane.
• October 7:
  Speaker: Erik Pedersen (Binghamton)
  Title: The Hauptvermutung Revisited (first of three talks) (abstract)
• October 14:
  Speaker: Erik Pedersen (Binghamton)
  Title: The Hauptvermutung Revisited (second of three talks) (abstract)
• October 21:
  Speaker: Erik Pedersen (Binghamton)
  Title: The Hauptvermutung Revisited (third of three talks) (abstract)
• October 28:
  Speaker: David Fisher (CUNY-Lehman)
  Title: Local Rigidity of Group Actions (abstract)
• November 4:
  Speaker: Stratos Prassidis (Canisius College)
  Title: Metric Roundness in Analysis and Topology. (abstract)
• November 9: NOTE: This is a Tuesday. This is joint with the algebra seminar.
  Speaker: Alejandro Adem (IAS Princeton and Univ. of British Columbia)
  Title: Representation Varieties and K-theory
• November 11:
  Speaker: Peter Hilton (Binghamton)
  Title: Serre's unique contribution to the development of homotopy theory
• November 18:
  Speaker: Paul Loya (Binghamton)
  Title: On the gluing problem or Mayor-Vietoris sequence for the spectral invariants of Dirac operators
• November 25:
  THANKSGIVING
  
  
• December 2:
  Speaker: Richard Hind (Notre Dame and NYU)
  Title: Lagrangian spheres in symplectic manifolds
• December 9:
  NO TALK. NEXT TALK ON JANUARY 27, 2005.
  
  

SPRING 2005

• January 27:
  Speaker: Ross Geoghegan (Binghamton)
  Title: Cocompact proper CAT(0) spaces abstract
• February 3:
  Speaker: Craig Westerland (Institute for Advanced Study)
  Title: Homology operations on free loop spaces and other mapping spaces
• February 10:
  Speaker: John Meier (Lafayette College)
  Title: The homology of the group of loops Abstract
• February 17:
  Speaker: Mohan Ramachandran (SUNY Buffalo)
  Title: Filtered ends of Kahler groups and surjective morphisms to Fuchsian groups Abstract
• February 24:
  Speaker: Brendan Owens (Cornell)
  Title: Unknotting numbers and Heegaard Floer theory Abstract
• March 3:
  Speaker: Paul Loya (Binghamton)
  Title: Eta invariants for manifolds with cone points Abstract
• March 10:
  Speaker: Emily Proctor (Swarthmore)
  Title: Isospectral Metrics and Potentials on Lie Groups. Abstract
• March 17:
  Speaker: Paul Loya (Binghamton)
  Title: Eta invariants for manifolds with cone points (second of two talks) Abstract
• March 24:
  SPRING BREAK
  
  
• March 25: THIS IS A FRIDAY DURING SPRING BREAK
  Special Spring Break Talks (two of them) at special times
  • 2:00 PM
    Speaker: John Roe (Penn State)
    Title: From surgery to analysis
  • 3:30 PM
    Speakers: Andrew Ranicki (Edinburgh)
    Titles: The signature mod 2,4 and 8
• March 31:
  Speaker: Craig Sutton (U.Penn)
  Title: Methods of constructing isospectral manifolds Abstract
• April 7:
  Speaker: Tom Klein (Binghamton)
  Title: Monod's work on super-rigidity
• April 14:
  Speaker: William Browder (Princeton)
  Title: Fixed points, p-groups, and free actions on products of spheres.
• April 21:
  Speaker: Ben Schmidt (University of Michigan)
  Title: Weakly hyperbolic group actions. Abstract
• April 26: TUESDAY, 4:25 PM. NOTE THE UNUSUAL DAY AND TIME.
  Speaker: James Davis (Indiana University)
  Title: Isomorphism Conjecture for Crystallographic Groups
• April 28:
  Speaker: Jean-Francois Lafont (Binghamton)
  Title: Simplicial norm of non-positively curved locally symmetric spaces. Abstract
• May 5:
  Speaker: Etienne Ghys (Ecole Normale Superieur de Lyon)
  Title: The Rademacher function on SL(2,Z) : a topological interpretation

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