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Geometry and Topology Seminar

The Geometry and Topology Seminar normally meets on Wednesday afternoons in PHSC 809. When the speaker is from OU, the talk normally begins at 3:45pm. When the speaker is from outside OU, the talk normally begins at 4:00pm, with tea at 3:30pm in PHSC 424. For more information about the seminar, contact Joel Louwsma.

Earlier semesters (Fall 2005 - Spring 2012)

Spring 2014 Talks
1/17 (Friday!) Dan Knopf (Texas) Type-II singularities of Ricci flow
1/22 (4:00pm) John Harvey (Notre Dame) Orbifolds and Alexandrov geometry
1/29 (3:45pm) Will Wylie (Syracuse) Sectional curvature for Riemannian manifolds with density
2/5 (4:30pm) Trent Schirmer (Oklahoma State) Heegaard splittings, free tangle decompositions, and the fundamental group of knots
2/12 (4:00pm) Mark Feighn (Rutgers-Newark) Folding paths in Outer space
2/19 (3:45pm) Max Forester Trees and stable commutator length
2/25 (Tuesday!) Vera Tonic (Ben Gurion) Introduction to asymptotic dimension theory for discrete groups
2/26 (4:00pm) Mark Hagen (Michigan) Cubulating some free-by-Z groups
3/5 no seminar
3/12 no seminar some people are traveling to STDC
3/19 Spring Break
3/26 (3:45pm) Michael Jablonski A step towards the Alekseevskii Conjecture
4/2 (4:00pm) Danielle O'Donnol (Oklahoma State) Legendrian Graphs
4/9 (4:00pm) Sean Bowman (Oklahoma State) Knots in the page of an open book
4/11-13 Spring Redbud Topology Conference
4/16 no seminar
4/23 (3:45pm) Scott Thuong All Four-Dimensional Infra-Solvmanifolds are Boundaries
4/30 (3:45pm) Ignat Soroko A new linearity criterion of Bou-Rabee and McReynolds

Fall 2013 Talks
8/21 (3:45pm) organizational meeting
8/28 (3:45pm) Jeffrey Meyer A Geometric Introduction to Arithmetic Groups
9/4 (3:45pm) Jeffrey Meyer An Introduction to Spectral Geometry of Arithmetic Locally Symmetric Spaces
9/11 (3:45pm) Shihshu Walter Wei New Comparison Theorems and Cohomology Groups
9/18 (3:45pm) Matthew Lynam Extensional Maps
9/25 (4:00pm) Danny Calegari (Chicago) Some combinatorial constructions in random groups
10/2 (3:45pm) Ravi Shankar Rigidity of spherical rank for a lower curvature bound
10/9 (3:45pm) Michael Jablonski An equivalence of conjectures
10/16 (3:45pm) Michael Jablonski An equivalence of conjectures, II
10/23 (3:45pm) Chenxu He Linear stability of gradient shrinking Ricci solitons
10/30 (3:45pm) Joel Louwsma Stable commutator length in Baumslag-Solitar groups
11/6 (3:45pm) Noel Brady Homotopical and homological Dehn functions are different
11/13 (3:45pm) Chenxu He Linear stability of gradient shrinking Ricci solitons, II
11/20 (3:45pm) Leonard Rubin The Topology of Direct Limits of Direct Systems Induced by Maps
11/27 Thanksgiving Holiday
12/4 (4:00pm) Sam Taylor (Texas) Subfactor projections and fully irreducible automorphisms of free groups

Spring 2013 Talks
1/23 (3:45pm) Murad Özaydin Topological Robotics - Restricted Configuration Spaces
1/30 (3:45pm) Murad Özaydin Topological Robotics - Restricted Configuration Spaces, II
2/6 (3:45pm) Shihshu Walter Wei A generalized Bochner's method and its applications in real and complex geometry and topology
2/13 (3:45pm) Shihshu Walter Wei A generalized Bochner's method and its applications in real and complex geometry and topology, II
2/20 (4:00pm) Patrick Reynolds (Utah) "Curve complexes" for free groups
2/27 (4:00pm) Martin Kerin (Muenster) Rationally elliptic manifolds and torus actions
3/6 (3:45pm) Chenxu He Riemannian manifolds with positive or non-negative sectional curvature
3/13 (4:00pm) Ric Wade (Utah) Centralizers of Dehn twists on free groups
3/20 Spring Break
3/27 (4:00pm) Longzhi Lin (Rutgers) Dynamic stability of the surface area preserving mean curvature flow in Euclidean space
4/3 (3:45pm) Sean Paul (Wisconsin) A Numerical Criterion for lower bounds on K-energy maps
4/10 (4:00pm) Will Cavendish (Oxford) Topological methods for engulfing subgroups
4/17 (3:45pm) Jing Tao The shape of moduli space
4/24 (4:00pm) Mladen Bestvina (Utah) Stable commutator length in mapping class groups
5/1 (3:45pm) Yoe Herrera Intersection Numbers in a Surface
5/8 (4:00pm) Peter Petersen (UCLA) The Isoperimetric Inequality

Fall 2012 Talks
8/29 (3:45pm) organizational meeting
9/5 (4:00pm) Siraj Uddin (University of Malaya) Contact CR-warped product submanifolds of nearly trans-Sasakian manifolds
9/12 (4:00pm) Lee Kennard (UC Santa Barbara) Two conjectures of Hopf in the presence of symmetry
9/19 (3:45pm) Chenxu He Existence and uniqueness of Einstein metrics on warped products
9/26 (3:45pm) Jing Tao Thurston metric on Teichmuller space
10/3 no seminar due to Karcher Lecture Series
10/10 (4:00pm) Johanna Mangahas (Brown) Some Schottky subgroups of mapping class groups
10/17 (3:45pm) Jean Sun Growth, Projections and Bounded Generation of Mapping Class Groups
10/24 (3:45pm) Michael Jablonski How to build an isometry group
10/31 (3:45pm) William Carter Nice Examples of Non-Unique Product Groups
11/3 (Sat.) Fall Redbud Topology Conference
11/7 (3:45pm) Leonard Rubin Simplified Proofs of the Z/p- and Q-resolution Theorems
11/14 (4:00pm) Wu-Yi Hsiang (UC Berkeley) On Equivariant Riemannian Geometry and Ricci-flows
11/21 Thanksgiving Holiday
11/28 (4:00pm) Spencer Dowdall (UIUC) Kleinian convex cocompact subgroups of mapping class groups
12/5 (3:45pm) Rachel Wright Right-angled Artin groups as totally reflected systems
12/7 (4:00pm) Huai-Dong Cao (Lehigh) Stability of shrinking Ricci solitons

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