BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR

FALL 2005

• September 1:
  
  
• September 8:
  Speaker: Bi-Zhong Hu (Binghamton)
  Title: Relative hyperbolization and its applications to topology (first of two talks)
• September 15:
  Speaker: Bi-Zhong Hu (Binghamton)
  Title: Relative hyperbolization and its applications to topology (second of two talks)
• September 22:
  Speaker: Chris Dwyer (Binghamton)
  Title: Twisted Equivariant K-theory for Proper Actions of Discrete Groups (first of two talks) Abstract
• September 29:
  Speaker: Chris Dwyer (Binghamton)
  Title: Twisted Equivariant K-theory for Proper Actions of Discrete Groups (second of two talks) Abstract
• October 6:
  Speaker: Qin Lu (Lafayette College)
  Title: A study of L-2 Betti numbers and Bianchi Groups Abstract
• October 13:
  YOM KIPPUR
  
• October 20:
  Speaker: Bjørn Jahren (Oslo and Notre Dame)
  Title: Topological classification of free involutions on S¹ × S³
• October 27:
  Speaker: Tim Riley (Cornell)
  Title: Intrinsic versus extrinsic diameter in finitely presented groups Abstract
• November 1 (NOTE: This is a Tuesday):
  Speaker: Michael McCooey (Franklin and Marshall)
  Title: Concordance of Z_p x Z_p actions on the four-sphere. Abstract
• November 10:
  Speaker: Joseph Masters (SUNY Buffalo)
  TItle: Residual properties of free groups, with applications to hyperbolic knot manifolds Abstract
• November 17:
  Speaker: Francesco Matucci (Florence and Cornell)
  Title: The Simultaneous Conjugacy Problem for Thompson's Group F Abstract
• November 24:
  THANKSGIVING
  
  
• December 1:
  Speaker: Martin Kassabov (Cornell)
  Title: Finite simple groups and expander graphs
• December 8:
  Speaker: Tom Klein (Binghamton)
  Title: Filtered ends of groups

SPRING 2006

• January 26:
  Speaker: Pedro Ontaneda (Binghamton)
  Title: Is the space of negatively curved metrics path connected?
• February 2:
  Speaker: Pedro Ontaneda (Binghamton)
  Title: Is the Teichmuller space of of pinched negatively curved metrics contractible?
• February 9:
  Speaker: Pat McAuley (Binghamton)
  Title: Mary Ellen Rudin's proof that a metric space is paracompact - and a little history
• February 16:
  Speaker: Paul Loya (Binghamton)
  Title: Exotic expansions and pathological properties of zeta-functions on conic manifolds Abstract
• February 23:
  Speaker: Mike Mihalik (Vanderbilt)
  Title: Decompositions of Coxeter Groups over minimal splittings Abstract
• March 2:
  POSTPONED because of snow until April 6.
  
• March 9:
  Speaker: Tom Goodwillie (Brown)
  TItle: The category of spaces as a space: geometric language for functor calculus
• March 16: (NOTE: This talk starts at 2:30 PM)
  Speaker: Rafael Ramos (IMU Morelia, Mexico)
  Title: A characterization for the twisted Nil group NK₁^aZG Abstract
• March 21 (This is a Tuesday):
  Speaker: Xiaochun Rong (Rutgers)
  Title: Finite subgroups of compact Lie groups and equivariant embedding Abstract
• March 23:
  NO SEMINAR
• March 28 (This is a Tuesday): Joint talk with the Algebra Seminar
  Speaker: Zoran Sunik (Texas A&M)
  Title: Hanoi Towers, Schreier Graphs, Iterated Monodromy Groups and Julia sets Abstract
• March 30:
  Speaker: Risto Atanasov (Binghamton)
  Title: Gromov's link condition for cubical complexes
  (This is part of Mr. Atanasov's Admission to Candidacy examination).
• April 6:
  Speaker: Laurent Saloff-Coste (Cornell)
  Title: Lie groups having the ``rapid decay'' property
• April 13:
  HOLIDAY BREAK
  
• April 20:
  Speaker: Klaus Kirsten (Baylor University)
  Title: Spectral functions: Techniques and applications Abstract
• April 27:
  Speaker: Bi-Zhong Hu (Binghamton)
  Title: Complexity of parallelizable aspherical manifolds
• May 4:
  NO SEMINAR
• May 8 (Monday), 1:10 PM: (Note unusual date and time) (joint with the combinatorics seminar)
  Speaker: Daniel Biss (University of Chicago)
  Title: Annihilators in Cayley-Dickson algebras Abstract
• May 10 (Wednesday), 3:30 PM: (Note unusual date and time)
  Speaker: Ivonne Ortiz (Miami University of Ohio)
  Title: Lower algebraic K-theory of hyperbolic 3-simplex reflection groups Abstract
• May 11:
  Speaker: Nigar Tuncer (Binghamton)
  Title: On the Uniformization Theorem of Hurewicz
  A follow-up talk will be given on Friday May 12 at 3.30 in the same room.

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