Brown University Geometry/Topology Seminar, Spring 2024

The seminar meets Wednesdays 3-4 in Kassar 105

organizers:
Rich Schwartz (Richard.Evan.Schwartz@gmail.com)
Bena Tshishiku (Bena_Tshishiku@brown.edu)

Current Schedule

  • Jan 24: Willie Rush Lim (Stony Brook), Degeneration of Herman Rings
  • Jan 31: Aaron Landesman (Harvard), The algebraic geometry of the Putman Wieland Conjecture
  • Feb 7: Martin Bridgeman (Boston College) The Weil_Petersson gradient flow of renormalized volume uniformizes relatively acylindrical manifolds
  • Feb 14
  • Feb 21
  • Feb 28: Elizabeth Denne (Washington and Lee) ribbonlength of folded ribbon knots
  • Mar 6
  • Mar 13: Nathan Dunfield (UIUC) counting essential surfaces in 3-manifolds
  • Mar 20:
  • Mar 27: (Spring Break)
  • Apr 3: Lorenzo Ruffoni (Tufts) The Singer Conjecture for Hyperbolic 3-pseudomanifoldss
  • Apr 10: Mona Merling (UPenn) Higher Scissors congruence invariants of manifolds
  • Apr 17: Kasra Rafi (UToronto) Binyamini_Schramm Limits of High Genus Translation Surfaces
  • Apr 24; Seraphina Lee (U Chicago) Examples of Lefshetz Fibrations with infinitely many sections
  • May 1: Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner (U Maryland) The Symplectic Packing Numbers