Xtreme Geometry Seminar

Brown Math Dept. Kassar 105
Roughly every other Tuesday at 4

Contact: Jeff Brock or Rich Schwartz
(Actually, Jeff is on sabbatical this semester.
So, contact Rich.)

The purpose of this seminar is to give speakers
a chance to present their work and ideas, for an
indefinite (but sane) period of time, in a relaxed,
friendly, and interactive setting.

Seminar Guidelines

• Naive questions are encouraged.
• The audience gets access to the blackboard during the talk.
• Concentrate on simple examples.
• Well prepared lectures with many pictures are welcome.

Fall 05 Schedule
Spr. 06 Schedule
Fall 06 Schedule
Spring 07 Schedule
Current Schedule

• 2/21 Lionel Levine (Berkeley) abstract
  The smash sum of two domains in R^d
  Note: talk is Thursday at 4
  
  
• 3/4 Mark Sapir (Vanderbilt)
  Asymptotic cones of groups
  
  
• 3/11 Jeremy Kahn (Stony Brook)
  covering surfaces and Weil-Petersson distance
  
  
• 4/1 Jeff Brock (Brown)
  Asymptotic Geometry of Weil-Petersson geodesics
  
  
• 4/8 Jeff Brock (Brown)
  Asymptotic Geometry of Weil-Petersson geodesics, cont.
  
  
• 4/15 Jean-Marc Schlenker (Toulouse) abstract
  Particles and black holes, as tools for Teichmuller Theory
  
  
• 5/6 Ramin Naimi, (Occidental) abstract
  intrinsically knotted and linked graphs