Brown University
Geometry and Topology Seminar
Wednesdays – 2:00PM –
Kassar 105
Fall 2008
September 10
Ian Biringer,
U. Chicago
Rank and geometry
of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
September 17
No Seminar
September 23 (Joint with Group Actions – 4PM in Kassar 105!)
Hee Oh,
Brown
Counting
Apollonian circles of bounded curvature
October 1
Artem Pulemotov,
Cornell
The Li-Yau-Hamilton
estimate and the Yang-Mills heat flow
October 8
Dan Margalit,
Tufts
Dimensions of Torelli Groups
October 15
Ben Wieland,
Brown
The music of the spheres: Galois theory
of infinite ring spectra
October 22
Jorge Sotomayor,
University of S‹o Paolo and Brown
Recent developments on the geometry and dynamics of lines of
curvature on surfaces
October 29
Scott Wolpert,
U. Maryland
Topological dynamics of the
Weil-Petersson geodesic flow
October 30 (Note Special Room, Date and Time:4PM Foxboro)
Andy Putman, MIT
The second rational
homology group of the moduli space of curves with level structures
November 5
Rezza Seyadali,
Johns Hopkins
Chow stability of ruled
manifolds
November 12
Hugo Parlier,
Lausanne
TBA
November 18 (Joint
with Group Actions – 4PM Kassar 105)
Alan Reid,
U. Texas, Austin
TBA
November 19
Pat Hooper,
Northwestern
TBA
December 3
Garth Baker
Sepctra of topologically ordered
quantum states
December 10
Matt Hedden,
MIT and Michigan State
TBA
For details, contact Jeffrey Brock,
Georgios Daskalopoulos,
Nicos Kapouleas, or Hee Oh.