BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR

SPRING 2007

• January 25:
  Speaker: Speaker: Chris Dwyer (Binghamton)
  TItle: A review of twisted equvariant K-theory
• February 1:
  Speaker: Speaker: Chris Dwyer (Binghamton)
  TItle: A completion theorem for twisted equivariant K-theory
• February 8:
  Speaker: Dorin Dutkay (U. Central Florida)
  TItle: Wavelets and Fourier series on fractals Abstract
• February 15:
  Speaker: Steve Ferry (Rutgers)
  Title: Desingularizing Homology Manifolds (joint with Bryant, Mio, and Weinberger) Abstract
• February 22: POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH 15
  Speaker: Craig Johnson (Marywood University)
  Title: A Computer Search for Free Actions on Surfaces by Finite Groups
• March 1:
  Speaker: Craig Guilbault (U. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
  Title: Taming manifolds that are wild at infinity Abstract
• March 8:
  SPRING BREAK
  
• March 15:
  Speaker: Craig Johnson (Marywood University)
  Title: A Computer Search for Free Actions on Surfaces by Finite Groups
• March 22:
  Speaker: Matt Brin (Binghamton)
  Title: Operads, fractions, Thompson groups and categories with multiplication
• March 29:
  Speaker: Collin Bleak (Cornell)
  Title: Structure theorems for groups of homeomorphisms of the circle
• April 5:
  HOLIDAY
  
• April 10 (This is a Tuesday): Joint with the algebra seminar
  Speaker: Sarah Rees (University of Newcastle, England)
  Title: Group geodesics: regularity, star-freedom and local testability Abstract
• April 12:
  Speaker: Nansen Petrosyan (Indiana University)
  Title: Jumps in Cohomology of Groups and Group Actions Abstract
• April 19:
  Speaker: Mohan Ramachandran (SUNY Buffalo)
  Title: Filtered ends of Kahler groups and L^2 holomorphic one forms Abstract
• April 26:
  Speaker: Roman Sauer (University of Chicago)
  Title: Simplicial volume of finite volume locally symmetric manifolds and the proportionality principle in the non-compact case Abstract
• May 3:
  Speaker: Bruce Hughes (Vanderbilt University)
  Title: Local similarities and the Haagerup property Abstract
• May 4: (This is a Friday. Meeting is at 4:30 PM)
  Speaker: Jean-Francois Lafont (Ohio State University)
  Title: Ultralimit rigidity for locally symmetric spaces Abstract
• May 10:
  Speaker: Francesco Matucci (Cornell)
  Title: Conjugacy and dynamics in Thompson's groups Abstract

FALL 2006

• August 31:
  
  
• September 7:
  Speaker: Jean Lafont (Ohio)
  Title: A boundary version of Cartan-Hadamard and applications Abstract
• September 14:
  Speaker: Gabriel Picioroaga (Binghamton)
  Title: An introduction to operator algebras of a countable discrete group.
• September 21:
  Speaker: Gabriel Picioroaga (Binghamton)
  Title: (Non)Amenability from the operator algebras point of view: an application to Thompson's groups F(p).
• September 28:
  NO MEETING
  
• October 5:
  Speaker: Sharma Pallekonda (Binghamton)
  Title: Algebraic K-Theory and the delooping of exact categories (First of two talks, the second at 4.30 the same day)
• October 12:
  Speaker: Paul Loya (Binghamton)
  Title: Elementary complex analysis made a little complicated: The Cauchy integral and transform on regions with corners Abstract
• October 19:
  Speaker: Kai-Uwe Bux (Virginia)
  Title: Connectivity of Spheres and Horospheres in Euclidean Buildings (joint work with Kevin Wortman) Abstract
• October 26:
  Speaker: Marco Varisco (Binghamton)
  Title: On the Isomorphism Conjecture in Algebraic K-Theory and Topological Cyclic Homology Abstract
• November 2:
  Speaker: Marco Varisco (Binghamton)
  Title: On the Isomorphism Conjecture in Algebraic K-Theory and Topological Cyclic Homology (cont.) Abstract
• November 5-7: (Sunday-Tuesday)
  Frank Quinn's 60th Birthday conference
  
  
• November 7: (This is a Tuesday)
  Speaker: Masayuki Yamasaki (Okayama University of Science)
  Title: 3-manifolds and 4-dimensional surgery
• November 16:
  Speaker: Christophe Pittet (Marseille and Cornell)
  Title: Which Lie groups have every cohomology class of their classifying space bounded?
• November 23:
  THANKSGIVING
  
• November 30:
  Speaker: Efstratios Prassidis (Canisius College)
  Title: On monomorphisms of groups Abstract
• December 7:
  
  

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