UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN GEOMETRY - WINTER 2010

The seminar meets Fridays in East Hall 3096, 3:10 pm. FALL 2010





Schedule of Talks



September 17, 3:10-4 pm
Howard Masur (U Chicago)
The Weil-Petersson geodesic flow on the moduli space of riemann surfaces
September 24, 3:10-4 pm
Alexander Gorodnik (U Bristol)
Property tau, counting lattice points, and applications
September 30, 3:10-4 pm
Sucharit Sarkar (Columbia)
Cobordism maps on knot Floer homology.
October 8, 3:10-4 pm
Juan Souto (Michigan)
Homomorphisms between mapping class groups
October 15, 3:10-4 pm
Hanna Bennett (Michigan)
Volume distortion in polycyclic abelian-by-cyclic groups
October 22, 3:10-4 pm
Ian Biringer (Yale)
Extending pseudo-Anosov maps into handlebodies
October 29, 3:10-4 pm
Bill Breslin (Michigan)
Short geodesics and Heegaard surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds
November 3, 3:10-4 pm Special Room: EH 4096
Anna Wienhard (Princeton)
Higher Teichmueller spaces -- from SL(2,R) to other Lie groups
November 5, 3:10-4 pm
Martin Bridgeman (Boston College)
The orthospectra of finite volume hyperbolic manifolds with totally geodesic boundary and associated volume identities.
November 12, 3:10-4 pm
Matthew Stover (Michigan)
Arithmetic groups and complex reflections
November 19, 3:10-4 pm
Richard Canary (Michigan)
Dynamics on PSL(2,C)-character varieties
December 3, 3:10-4 pm
Yuanqi Wang (U Wisconsin)
On the K\"ahler-Ricci flow near a K\"ahler-Einstein metric
December 10, 3:10-4 pm
Pat Boland (Michigan)
Geometry and Topology of Toroidal Compactifications



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