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Stefan Friedl’s talk at the Geometry/Topology seminar (4pm Tuesday, October 16th)

In 2007, Agol showed that any irreducible 3-manifold such that its fundamental groups is ‘virtually RFRS’ is virtually fibered. I will give a somewhat different proof using complexities of sutured manifolds. This is joint work with Takahiro Kitayama.

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Igor Rivin speaking at the Geometry and Dynamics seminar at Penn State

Igor will be speaking in the Geometry and Dynamics Seminar at Penn State on November 28th, on the topic of “counting curves on usually hyperbolic) surfaces.”

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Igor Rivin speaking at Penn State MASS Colloquium

Igor will be speaking at the MASS Colloquium on November 29th. Watch this space for more details

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Patricia Cahn’s talk at the Geometry/Topology seminar (October 9th, 4pm)

Title: Algebras counting intersections and self-intersections of curves Abstract: Goldman and Turaev discovered a Lie bialgebra structure on the vector space generated by free homotopy classes of loops on an oriented surface. Goldman’s Lie bracket gives a lower bound on … Continue reading

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Bill Floyd Speaks! (Tuesday, October 2, 4pm)

Speaker: Bill Floyd, Virginia Tech Title: Finite subdivision rules and rational maps Abstract: A finite subdivision rule gives an essentially combinatorial method for recursively subdividing planar complexes. The theory was developed (as part of an approach to Cannon’s conjecture) as … Continue reading

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PATCH mini-conference, Friday, September 21

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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New York Hyperbolic Geometry/Teichmuller theory conference.

Igor Rivin and Dave Futer are both speaking at the Hyperbolic Geometry conference at FDR’s house.

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Geometry Colloquium

Speaker: Dieter Kotschick, U. of Munich Title: Fundamental groups of Kahler manifolds and combinatorial group theory. Abstract:  The study of fundamental groups of Kähler manifolds is a fascinating enterprise at the crossroads of various branches of geometry and topology, with … Continue reading

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Brian Rushton’s talks

Brian will speak September 4th and 11th (at 3:30pm) Title: An introduction to subdivision rules and Cannon’s conjecture Abstract: Hyperbolic 3-space has a useful sphere at infinity, and any group acting geometrically on it has a sphere at infinity as … Continue reading

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Igor’s Mathematics in Science and Society Colloquium at University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana

Igor Rivin will speak at the UIUC Mathematics in Science and Society Colloquium on April 3. Title: Conformal matching of proteins Abstract: The question of whether two proteins can bind, and how, is one of the canonical problems in molecular … Continue reading

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