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Tag Archives: Hyperbolic Geometry
Seminar August 30 – Neil Hoffman
On August 30th, the Geometry-Topology Seminar will kick off the fall semester by hosting Neil Hoffman of Boston College. He will speak about: Title: Hidden symmetries and cyclic commensurability for small knot complements Abstract: Two hyperbolic orbifolds are commensurable if they share a … Continue reading
Seminar April 26 – Kusner and Roger
The Geometry-Topology Seminar concludes for the term with talks by Julien Roger of Rutgers and Rob Kusner of UMass, Amherst. Roger will speak on: Title: Quantum Teichmueller theory and conformal field theory Abstract: The aim of this talk is to investigate the … Continue reading
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Tagged Hyperbolic Geometry, Knot Theory, Teichmueller Space
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Seminar April 6 – Anne Thomas
On April 6th, the Geometry-Topology Seminar will have a special “away” meeting at the Institute for Advanced Study. Anne Thomas of the University of Sydney will speak on: Title: Infinite generation of non-cocompact lattices on right-angled buildings Abstract: Let Gamma be a … Continue reading
David Futer talks at the Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference
On April 2, David Futer will give a survey talk at the Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference at MSU. Title: Effective hyperbolic geometry Abstract: Powerful theorems of Thurston, Perelman, and Mostow tell us that almost every 3-dimensional manifold admits a … Continue reading
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Tagged 3-manifolds, Combinatorics, Hyperbolic Geometry, Knot Theory
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Dave Futer’s March 1 talk at Rutgers
Dave Futer will be speaking on Tuesday, March 1 at the Rutgers Geometry-Topology Seminar on, Title: Angle structures for veering triangulations Abstract: Casson and Rivin have proposed a program to explicitly construct the finite-volume hyperbolic metric on a 3-manifold given … Continue reading
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Tagged Angle structures, Hyperbolic Geometry, Mapping Class Group
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Dave Futer’s talk on 11/29
Dave Futer will be giving a talk at Yale on Monday, 11/29: Title: The geometry of unknotting tunnels Abstract: Given a knot K in S^3, an unknotting tunnel for K is an arc τ from K to K, such that … Continue reading
Geometry Seminar, November 2, 2010: David Gabai
After a week off for PATCH, the Geometry Seminar resumes with David Gabai of Princeton speaking on: Title: Topology of Ending Lamination Space Abstract: The Ending lamination space is a naturally defined space associated to a surface of negative Euler … Continue reading
First Geometry Seminar of Fall 2010
Adeboye: volumes of hyperbolic orbifolds. Continue reading
