Brown University Geometry/Topology Seminar, Spring 2024
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
Jan 24: Willie Rush Lim (Stony Brook), Degeneration of Herman Rings
Jan 31: Aaron Landesman (Harvard), The algebraic geometry of the Putman Wieland Conjecture
Feb 7: Martin Bridgeman (Boston College) The Weil_Petersson gradient flow of renormalized volume uniformizes relatively acylindrical manifolds
Feb 14
Feb 21
Feb 28: Elizabeth Denne (Washington and Lee) ribbonlength of folded ribbon knots
Mar 6
Mar 13: Nathan Dunfield (UIUC) counting essential surfaces in 3-manifolds
Mar 20:
Mar 27: (Spring Break)
Apr 3: Lorenzo Ruffoni (Tufts) The Singer Conjecture for Hyperbolic 3-pseudomanifoldss
Apr 10: Mona Merling (UPenn) Higher Scissors congruence invariants of manifolds
Apr 17: Kasra Rafi (UToronto) Binyamini_Schramm Limits of High Genus Translation Surfaces
Apr 24; Seraphina Lee (U Chicago)
Examples of Lefshetz Fibrations with infinitely many sections
May 1: Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner (U Maryland) TBA