Geometry Topology Seminar

This seminar meets Wednesdays 2-3 in Kassar 105
Contact: Rich Schwartz

Current Schedule (Spring 08)

• 1/30 Stephen Miller (Brown) abstract
  Calculus of (Co)homology
  
  
• 2/6 George Daskalopolous (Brown)
  Harmonic Maps between Singular Spaces -- An Overview
  
  
• 2/13 Richard Kent (Brown)
  Geometry and the mapping class group
  
  
• 2/20 Andrew Snowden (Princeton) abstract
  The equations for the GIT quotient (P^1)^n/GL(2)
  
  
• 2/27 Bruce Kleiner (Yale) abstract
  A new proof of Gromov's theorem on groups of polynomial growth
  
  
• 3/5 (double header)
  • 2:00 Ben Weinkove (Harvard) abstract
    The Calabi-Yau Equation and symplectic forms
    
  • 4:00 Felix Schulze (Berlin) abstract
    No mass drop for mean curvature flow of mean convex hypersurfaces
  
  
• 3/12 Araceli Bonifant (URI)
  Schwarzian derivatives and cylinder maps
  
  
• 3/19 Mu-Tao Wang (Columbia) abstract
  Isometric embeddings and quasi-local mass
  
  3/26 spring break
  
  
• 4/2 Mark Feighn (Rutgers-Newark) abstract
  Definable subsets of Free Groups
  
  
• 4/9 (no talk)
  
  
• 4/16 David Dumas (Brown)
  Grafting and the Teichmuller Metric
  
  
• 4/23 Roland Roeder (Toronto)
  Computing Arithmetic Invariants for Hyperbolic Reflection Groups
  
  
• 4/30 Yael Karshon (Toronto)
  TBA
  
  
• 5/7 (no talk)