This seminar is funded as one of 18 Dean's Workshops In Harpur
College (College of Arts and Sciences) at Binghamton University.
FALL 1998
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September 3:
No meeting
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September 10:
Speaker: Erik Pedersen (Binghamton)
Title: KK Theory and Topology
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September 17:
Speaker: Erik Pedersen (Binghamton)
Title: KK Theory and Topology (second of two talks)
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September 24:
Speaker: Boris Okun (Cornell)
Title: l_2 homology of Coxeter groups
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October 1:
Speaker: Ethan Berkove (West Point)
Title: The lower algebraic K-theory of cocompact Fuchsian groups
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October 8:
Speaker: Brian Bowditch (Southhampton)
Title: Boundaries of hyperbolic groups
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October 15:
Speaker: Robert F. Brown (UCLA)
Title: Nielsen fixed point theory on manifolds
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October 22:
Speaker: Peter Hilton (Binghamton)
Title: Calculating and interpreting the Mislin genus of a
certain class of fiber spaces I: Background explanations
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October 29:
Speaker: Peter Hilton (continued)
Title: Calculating and interpreting the Mislin genus of a
certain class of fiber spaces II: Recent calculations
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November 5:
Speaker: Min-Oo (McMaster)
Seminar title: Mass, scalar curvature and K-area
Colloquium title: K-area estimates for Hermitian symmetric spaces
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November 12:
Speaker: Paul Baum (Penn State)
Seminar title: Topological K-theory for discrete groups
Colloquium title: Trees, Buildings, Symmetric Spaces, and
K-theory for group C* algebras
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November 19:
Speaker: Karen Vogtmann (Cornell)
Seminar title: Rational homology of Aut(F_n)
Colloquium title: Automorphisms of free groups and
symmetries of outer space
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November 26:
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
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December 3:
Speaker: Thomas Schick (Penn State)
Seminar title: L^2-Betti numbers and L^2-Reidemeister torsion
Colloquium title: Which manifolds admit metrics with positive scalar
curvature (a counterexample to the Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg
conjecture)
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December 10:
Speaker: Sergio Ardanza (Binghamton)
Title: Negatively curved non-locally symmetric
spaces
SPRING 1999
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January 28:
No meeting
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February 4:
Speaker: Ted Turner (SUNY Albany)
Title: Test elements in torsion free hyperbolic groups
Abstract
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February 11:
Speaker: Ilia Kapovich (Rutgers)
Title: On the structure of two-generated hyperbolic groups
Abstract:
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February 18:
Speaker: Mike Mihalik (Vanderbilt)
Title: Visual decompositions of Coxeter groups
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February 25:
Speaker: Frank Connolly (Notre Dame)
Title: Regular Neighborhoods of subsets of Stratified Spaces
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March 4:
Speaker: John Klein (Wayne State U.)
Title: Dualizing spectra and fibrations
Abstract:
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March 11:
Speaker: L. F. McAuley (Binghamton)
Title: A proof of the Hilbert-Smith conjecture
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March 18:
SPRING BREAK
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March 25:
Speaker: Victor Guba (Vologda and Vanderbilt)
Title: Diagram groups
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April 1:
PASSOVER/EASTER HOLIDAY
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April 8:
Speaker: Richard Stanley (MIT)
Title: Volumes, mixed volumes, and lattice point
enumerators of convex polytopes
Abstract:
Colloquium title: Characteristic polynomials of hyperplane arrangements
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April 15:
Speaker: Nigel Higson (Penn State)
Title: Assembly maps in analysis
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April 22:
Speaker: Neil Robertson (Ohio State)
Title: Flexibility of polyhedral embeddings of graphs on a surface
Abstract:
Colloquium title: The 4-colour theorem
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April 30 (Friday):
Speaker: Werner Ballmann (Bonn)
Title: Geodesic Flows on Euclidean Buildings and Applications
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May 6:
Speaker: Christopher Stark, (Univ. of Florida and NSF)
Title: Desingularizing group actions
Abstract:
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May 10 (Monday - Room LN-2201): Note irregular room and day
Speaker: Tom Farrell (Binghamton University)
Title: Topological rigidity
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