BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR

FALL 1998

• September 3:
  No meeting
  
  
• September 10:
  Speaker: Erik Pedersen (Binghamton)
  Title: KK Theory and Topology
• September 17:
  Speaker: Erik Pedersen (Binghamton)
  Title: KK Theory and Topology (second of two talks)
• September 24:
  Speaker: Boris Okun (Cornell)
  Title: l_2 homology of Coxeter groups
• October 1:
  Speaker: Ethan Berkove (West Point)
  Title: The lower algebraic K-theory of cocompact Fuchsian groups
• October 8:
  Speaker: Brian Bowditch (Southhampton)
  Title: Boundaries of hyperbolic groups
• October 15:
  Speaker: Robert F. Brown (UCLA)
  Title: Nielsen fixed point theory on manifolds
• October 22:
  Speaker: Peter Hilton (Binghamton)
  Title: Calculating and interpreting the Mislin genus of a certain class of fiber spaces I: Background explanations
• October 29:
  Speaker: Peter Hilton (continued)
  Title: Calculating and interpreting the Mislin genus of a certain class of fiber spaces II: Recent calculations
• November 5:
  Speaker: Min-Oo (McMaster)
  Seminar title: Mass, scalar curvature and K-area
  Colloquium title: K-area estimates for Hermitian symmetric spaces
• 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
• 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
• November 26:
  THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
  
  
• 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)
• December 10:
  Speaker: Sergio Ardanza (Binghamton)
  Title: Negatively curved non-locally symmetric spaces

SPRING 1999

• January 28:
  No meeting
  
  
• February 4:
  Speaker: Ted Turner (SUNY Albany)
  Title: Test elements in torsion free hyperbolic groups
  Abstract
• February 11:
  Speaker: Ilia Kapovich (Rutgers)
  Title: On the structure of two-generated hyperbolic groups
  Abstract:
• February 18:
  Speaker: Mike Mihalik (Vanderbilt)
  Title: Visual decompositions of Coxeter groups
• February 25:
  Speaker: Frank Connolly (Notre Dame)
  Title: Regular Neighborhoods of subsets of Stratified Spaces
• March 4:
  Speaker: John Klein (Wayne State U.)
  Title: Dualizing spectra and fibrations
  Abstract:
• March 11:
  Speaker: L. F. McAuley (Binghamton)
  Title: A proof of the Hilbert-Smith conjecture
• March 18:
  SPRING BREAK
  
  
• March 25:
  Speaker: Victor Guba (Vologda and Vanderbilt)
  Title: Diagram groups
• April 1:
  PASSOVER/EASTER HOLIDAY
  
  
• 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
• April 15:
  Speaker: Nigel Higson (Penn State)
  Title: Assembly maps in analysis
• April 22:
  Speaker: Neil Robertson (Ohio State)
  Title: Flexibility of polyhedral embeddings of graphs on a surface
  Abstract:
  Colloquium title: The 4-colour theorem
• April 30 (Friday):
  Speaker: Werner Ballmann (Bonn)
  Title: Geodesic Flows on Euclidean Buildings and Applications
• May 6:
  Speaker: Christopher Stark, (Univ. of Florida and NSF)
  Title: Desingularizing group actions
  Abstract:
• May 10 (Monday - Room LN-2201): Note irregular room and day
  Speaker: Tom Farrell (Binghamton University)
  Title: Topological rigidity