September 12
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Richard Schwartz (U. Maryland, IAS)
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Spherical
CR Geometry and Dehn Surgery |
September 19
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Vladimir Chernov (Dartmouth) |
Vassiliev invariants of Legendrian, pseudo-Legendrian, transverse, and framed knots in contact 3-manifolds |
September 26
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Dani Wise (McGill) |
Nonpositive Immersions, the Strengthened Hannah Neumann Conjecture, and the coherence of one-relator groups with torsion |
October 3
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Sergei Gukov (Harvard) |
Quantum Geometry of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds |
October 10 Double Header 11am
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John Meier (Columbia) |
Asymptotic cohomology of the group of loops |
October 10 Double Header 1:15pm
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Jon McCammond (UCSB) |
Garside structures for free groups (and other Artin groups) |
October 17
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No seminar |
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October 24
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Joan Birman (Columbia) |
On transverse knots: transversal simplicity and its failure |
October 31 Double Header 11am
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Jason Behrstock (Stony Brook) |
Asymptotic geometry of mapping class groups |
October 31 Double Header 1:15pm
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Dick Canary (U. Michigan) |
Classification of hyperbolic 3-manifolds |
November 7
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Tao Li (Oklahoma State U.) |
Compression branched surfaces and tight laminations |
| November 14 |
Genevieve Walsh (UT Austin) |
Finite covers of two-bridge knot complements |
| November 21 11am |
Igor Mineyev (UIUC, IAS) |
Geodesic flows on hyperbolic spaces |
December 5
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Joe Masters (SUNY Buffalo) |
Heegaard splittings and virtually Haken 3-manifolds |
December 12
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Adam Sikora (SUNY Buffalo, IAS) |
Skein theory for SU_n-quantum invariants |