Tag Archives: Mapping Class Group

PATCH mini-conference, Friday, September 21

Posted on September 15, 2012 by

We have Thomas Koberda (Yale), Eriko Hironaka (Florida State) and Andy Putman (Rice) speaking on things vaguely related to the mapping class group: 2pm: Speaker Thomas Koberda Title: The complex of curves for a right-angled Artin group Abstract: I will … Continue reading →

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Justin Malestein’s talk at OSU

Posted on April 29, 2011 by

Justin Malestein will be giving a talk at the OSU workshop on the Torelli group, mapping class group, and Out(Fn) on May 5th. Title: On genericity of pseudo-Anosovs in the Torelli group Abstract: We will show that, for any (symmetric) … Continue reading →

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Dave Futer’s March 1 talk at Rutgers

Posted on February 26, 2011 by

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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Seminar February 15 – Johanna Mangahas Kutluhan

Posted on February 16, 2011 by

Our Spring 2011 seminar continued on Feb. 15th with Johanna Mangahas Kutluhan from Brown University. Title: Geometry of right-angled Artin groups in mapping class groups Abstract: I’ll describe joint work with Matt Clay and Chris Leininger. We give sufficient conditions for … Continue reading →

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PATCH Day on September 28

Posted on September 22, 2010 by

Our speakers on September 28th are:  Joan Birman, who will be talking on: Title: A polynomial invariant of pseudo-Anosov maps. Abstract:  Pseudo-Anosov mapping classes on surfaces have a rich structure, uncovered by William Thurston in the 1980’s. We will discuss the … Continue reading →

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