Brown University Geometry/Topology Seminar, Fall 2023

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

  • Sept 13: Jeremy Kahn (Brown) Limit measures for topologically and geometrically random surfaces

  • Sept 20: Josh Greene (Boston College) From ball fillings to cube tilings

  • Sept 27: Alex Kapiamba (Brown) Elephants all the way down: The near-parabolic geometry of the Mandelbrot set

  • Oct 4: Changjie Chen (Brown) C^2 Morse functions on the compactified moduli space M_{g,n} bar

  • Oct 11: Jason Behrstock (CUNY) Random graphs and applications to Coxeter groups.

  • Oct 18: Ying Hu (University of Nebraska) Stir fry Homeo_+(S^1) representations from pseudo-Anosov flows

  • Oct 25: no talk

  • Nov 1 Kathryn Lindsey (Boston College) Topological Entropy, Thurston Sets, and the Mandelbrot Set

  • Nov 8: no talk

  • Nov 15 Ethan Dlugie (U C Berkeley) The Burau Representation and Shapes of Polyhedra

  • Nov 22: Thanksgiving break

  • Nov 29: no talk

  • Dec 6 Trent Lucas (Brown) Veech Fibrations