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PATCH Day April 20: Watson and Gay

Posted on April 17, 2012

The PATCH seminar, a joint venture with Bryn Mawr College, Haverford College, and the University of Pennsylvania, has its last meeting of Spring 2012 on Friday, April 20, at Haverford. The two speakers are Liam Watson of UCLA and David … Continue reading →

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Seminar on Tuesday, April 17: Jeff Brock

Posted on April 17, 2012

This Tuesday at 5:00, the seminar hosts Jeff Brock of Brown University. Title: Fat, exhausted integer homology spheres Abstract: Since Perelman’s groundbreaking proof of the geometrization conjecture for three-manifolds, the possibility of exploring tighter correspondences between geometric and algebraic invariants … Continue reading →

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Dave Futer’s talk at Stony Brook

Posted on April 10, 2012

On Thursday, April 12, Dave Futer is speaking in the Thursday Topology seminar at Stony Brook University. Title: The Jones polynomial and surfaces far from fibers Abstract: This talk explores relations between colored Jones polynomials and the topology of incompressible … Continue reading →

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Dave Futer’s talk at Michigan State

Posted on April 6, 2012

This Monday, April 9, Dave Futer is speaking in the Low-Dimensional Topology seminar at Michigan State University. Title: Small volume link orbifolds Abstract: I will discuss recent investigations of small volume hyperbolic 3-orbifolds whose singular locus is a link. An … Continue reading →

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Seminar on Tuesday, April 3: Scott Wolpert

Posted on April 1, 2012

This Tuesday at 4:30, the seminar hosts Scott Wolpert of the University of Maryland. Title: Weil-Petersson Riemannian and symplectic geometry: geodesic-lengths, Fenchel-Nielsen twists and Thurston shears Abstract: We discuss the correspondence between Weil-Petersson geometry on Teichmuller space and the hyperbolic … Continue reading →

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Dave Futer’s talk at AMS Meeting in Lawrence, KS

Posted on March 27, 2012

This Friday, March 30, Dave Futer is speaking in the special session on Geometric Topology and Group Theory at the AMS Central Section Meeting in Lawrence, KS. Title: Cusp geometry of fibered 3-manifolds Abstract: Let be a surface with punctures, … Continue reading →

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Dave Futer’s talk at Penn

Posted on March 27, 2012

This Thursday, March 29, Dave Futer is speaking in the geometry-topology seminar at UPenn. The talk will be in DRL 4C8 at 4:30 PM. Title: The Jones polynomial and surfaces far from fibers Abstract: This talk explores relations between colored … Continue reading →

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Seminar on Tuesday, March 27: Igor Rivin

Posted on March 24, 2012

This Tuesday at 5:00, our very own Igor Rivin is speaking in the seminar. Title: How many ways can you fiber a manifold? Abstract: Can a manifold fiber in more than one way? Can a group be an extension in … Continue reading →

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Seminar on Tuesday, March 20: Genevieve Walsh

Posted on March 18, 2012

This Tuesday at 5:00, the seminar hosts Genevieve Walsh of Tufts University. Title: Right-angled Coxeter groups and acute triangulations Abstract: A triangulation of yields a right-angled Coxeter group whose defining graph is the one-skeleton of that triangulation. In this case, … Continue reading →

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Seminar on Tuesday, March 13: Darlan Girao

Posted on March 11, 2012

This Tuesday at 5:00, the seminar hosts Darlan Girao of Universidade Federal do Ceara. Title: Rank gradient of hyperbolic 3-manifolds Abstract: An important line of research in 3-dimensional topology is the study of the behavior of the rank of the … Continue reading →

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