Xtreme Geometry Seminar



Brown Math Dept. Kassar 105
Roughly every other Tuesday at 4
(Note: this semester, some talks
will be on Thursday.)
Contact: Jeff Brock or Rich Schwartz

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
Current Schedule

• 3/1
  Christina Sormani, CUNY Grad Center and Lehman College
  Covering Spectra of Riemannian Manifolds and Length Spaces
  abstract
  
  
• 3/15
  Manfred Einsiedler, Ohio State
  Effective Equidistribution of closed orbits under semisimple groups
  abstract
  
  
• 3/22
  John Smillie, Cornell
  Scissors congruence and translation surfaces
  (Note: special time, 11AM)
  
  
• 4/5
  Martin Bridgeman, Boston College
  Hausdorff Dimension and the Weil Peterson metric
  
  
• 4/10
  Sergei Tabachnikov, Penn State
  Ellipsoids, Complete Integrability, and hyperbolic geometry
  
  
• 4/19
  Mike Wolf, Rice
  Minimal Desingularizations of planes in space
  
  
• 5/3
  Scott Wolpert, University of Maryland
  TBA