This seminar is funded as one of 18 Dean's Workshops In Harpur
College (College of Arts and Sciences) at Binghamton University.
FALL 1999
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September 2:
No meeting
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September 9:
Speaker: Ross Geoghegan (Binghamton)
Title: Invariants of Group Actions on Non-Positively Curved Spaces
(first of two talks)
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September 16:
Speaker: Ross Geoghegan (Binghamton)
Title: Invariants of Group Actions on Non-Positively Curved
Spaces
(second of two talks)
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September 23:
Speaker: Robert Bieri (U. of Frankfurt)
Title: The FP_3 Conjecture for metabelian groups
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September 30:
Speaker: Dan Farley (Binghamton)
Title: Finiteness properties of diagram groups
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October 7:
Speaker: Qin Lu (Lafayette College)
Title: Periodicity of the punctured
mapping class group and some cohomology of the punctured mapping class
group
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October 14:
Speaker: Sergio Ardanza-Trevijano (Binghamton)
Title: Exotic smooth structures on manifolds with
negative sectional cuvature
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October 21:
Speaker: Peter Hilton (Binghamton)
Title: Some non-cancellation results for circle bundles
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October 28:
Speaker: Andrzej Zuk (Cornell and Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon)
Title: Generic hyperbolic groups with property (T)
Abstract.
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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.
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November 11:
Speaker: L. Gaunce Lewis (Syracuse)
Title: An introduction to Mackey functor commutative
algebra
Abstract
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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.
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November 25:
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
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December 2:
Speaker: John Roe (Penn State)
Title: Generalized amenability and assembly maps
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December 9:
Speaker: Jenifer Taback (SUNY Albany)
Title: The Geometry and Topology of PSL(2,Z[1/p])
SPRING 2000
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January 27: POSTPONED BECAUSE OF WEATHER TO MARCH 2
Speaker: Laurent Saloff-Coste (Cornell)
Title: Groups with exotic isoperimetric inequalities.
Abstract
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February 3: Joint with the
Combinatorics Seminar
Speaker: Eric Swartz (Cornell)
Title: Matroids and Quotients of Spheres.
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February 10:
Speaker: Matt Brin (Binghamton)
Title: The Chameleon Groups of Richard Thompson,
II. Categories (first of two talks)
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February 17:
Speaker: Matt Brin (Binghamton)
Title: The Chameleon Groups of Richard Thompson,
II. Categories (second of two talks)
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February 24:
Speaker: Alexander Fel'shtyn (Greifswald)
Title: Dynamical zeta functions, Nielsen theory and Reidemeister torsion
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March 2:
Speaker: Laurent Saloff-Coste (Cornell)
Title: Groups with exotic isoperimetric inequalities.
Abstract
Colloquium Title:
Random Walk on Finite Groups: Examples Abstract
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March 9:
Speaker: Mark Sapir (Vanderbilt)
Title: Aspherical embeddings of finitely generated groups into
finitely presented groups
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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
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March 23:
SPRING BREAK
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March 30: TWO TALKS - the first at 2:50, the second at 4:30
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Speaker: John Roe (Penn State)
Title: Generalized amenability and assembly maps II: Counterexamples
Abstract
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Speaker: Andrew Ranicki (Edinburgh)
Title: Noncommutative localization and manifolds
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April 6:
Speaker: Edward Formanek (Penn. State)
Title: Braid Group Representations of Low Degree
Abstract
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April 13:
Speaker: Victor Guba (Vologda and Binghamton)
Title: Structural
results about diagram groups
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April 20:
PASSOVER/EASTER HOLIDAY
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April 27:
Speaker: Lars Hesselholt (MIT)
Title: K-theory of local fields and the de Rham-Witt complex
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May 4:
Speaker: Peter Abramenko (Cornell)
Title: On (twin) buildings and (Kac-Moody) groups
Abstract
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May 11: Joint with the
Combinatorics Seminar
Speaker: Sinai Robins (Temple University)
Title: A tale twixt two titanic polynomials
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