BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR

FALL 1999

• September 2:
  No meeting
  
  
• September 9:
  Speaker: Ross Geoghegan (Binghamton)
  Title: Invariants of Group Actions on Non-Positively Curved Spaces (first of two talks)
• September 16:
  Speaker: Ross Geoghegan (Binghamton)
  Title: Invariants of Group Actions on Non-Positively Curved Spaces (second of two talks)
• September 23:
  Speaker: Robert Bieri (U. of Frankfurt)
  Title: The FP_3 Conjecture for metabelian groups
• September 30:
  Speaker: Dan Farley (Binghamton)
  Title: Finiteness properties of diagram groups
• October 7:
  Speaker: Qin Lu (Lafayette College)
  Title: Periodicity of the punctured mapping class group and some cohomology of the punctured mapping class group
• October 14:
  Speaker: Sergio Ardanza-Trevijano (Binghamton)
  Title: Exotic smooth structures on manifolds with negative sectional cuvature
• October 21:
  Speaker: Peter Hilton (Binghamton)
  Title: Some non-cancellation results for circle bundles
• October 28:
  Speaker: Andrzej Zuk (Cornell and Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon)
  Title: Generic hyperbolic groups with property (T) Abstract.
• November 4:
  Speaker: Patricia McAuley (Binghamton)
  Title: Remarks related to a theorem of Hurewicz, a theorem of Michael and a theorem of Dold.
  Abstract: Each is a local-implies-global theorem.
• November 11:
  Speaker: L. Gaunce Lewis (Syracuse)
  Title: An introduction to Mackey functor commutative algebra
  Abstract
• November 18: Joint with the Combinatorics Seminar
  Speaker: Jack Graver (Syracuse)
  Title: Rigidity and matroids Abstract.
  Colloquium title: You May Rely on the Reliability Polynomial for Much More Than You Might Expect Abstract.
• November 25:
  THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
  
  
• December 2:
  Speaker: John Roe (Penn State)
  Title: Generalized amenability and assembly maps
• December 9:
  Speaker: Jenifer Taback (SUNY Albany)
  Title: The Geometry and Topology of PSL(2,Z[1/p])

SPRING 2000

• January 27: POSTPONED BECAUSE OF WEATHER TO MARCH 2
  Speaker: Laurent Saloff-Coste (Cornell)
  Title: Groups with exotic isoperimetric inequalities. Abstract
• February 3: Joint with the Combinatorics Seminar
  Speaker: Eric Swartz (Cornell)
  Title: Matroids and Quotients of Spheres.
• February 10:
  Speaker: Matt Brin (Binghamton)
  Title: The Chameleon Groups of Richard Thompson, II. Categories (first of two talks)
• February 17:
  Speaker: Matt Brin (Binghamton)
  Title: The Chameleon Groups of Richard Thompson, II. Categories (second of two talks)
• February 24:
  Speaker: Alexander Fel'shtyn (Greifswald)
  Title: Dynamical zeta functions, Nielsen theory and Reidemeister torsion
• March 2:
  Speaker: Laurent Saloff-Coste (Cornell)
  Title: Groups with exotic isoperimetric inequalities. Abstract
  Colloquium Title: Random Walk on Finite Groups: Examples Abstract
• March 9:
  Speaker: Mark Sapir (Vanderbilt)
  Title: Aspherical embeddings of finitely generated groups into finitely presented groups
• March 16:
  Speaker: Louis Kauffman (U. of Illinois at Chicago)
  Title: Virtual Knot Theory, Quantum Invariants and Vassiliev Invariants. Abstract
  Colloquium Title: State Models in Topology, Graph Theory and Statistical Mechanics
• March 23:
  SPRING BREAK
  
  
• March 30: TWO TALKS - the first at 2:50, the second at 4:30
  1. Speaker: John Roe (Penn State)
     Title: Generalized amenability and assembly maps II: Counterexamples Abstract
  2. Speaker: Andrew Ranicki (Edinburgh)
     Title: Noncommutative localization and manifolds
• April 6:
  Speaker: Edward Formanek (Penn. State)
  Title: Braid Group Representations of Low Degree Abstract
• April 13:
  Speaker: Victor Guba (Vologda and Binghamton)
  Title: Structural results about diagram groups
• April 20:
  PASSOVER/EASTER HOLIDAY
  
  
• April 27:
  Speaker: Lars Hesselholt (MIT)
  Title: K-theory of local fields and the de Rham-Witt complex
• May 4:
  Speaker: Peter Abramenko (Cornell)
  Title: On (twin) buildings and (Kac-Moody) groups Abstract
• May 11: Joint with the Combinatorics Seminar
  Speaker: Sinai Robins (Temple University)
  Title: A tale twixt two titanic polynomials