UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN GEOMETRY - WINTER 2010

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





Schedule of Talks



January 8, 3:10-4 pm
Khalid Bou-Rabee (U Chicago)
Number Theory on Groups
January 29, 3:10-4 pm
Junfang Li (UAB)
Isoperimetric quermassintegral inequalities and fully nonlinear geometric PDE
February 5, 3:10-4 pm
Yanir Rubinstein (Stanford)
The Cauchy problem for the homogeneous Monge-Ampere equation
February 11, 4:10-5 pm, EH 4096
Pierre Albin (NYU)
Equivariant cohomology and resolution
February 12, 3:10-4 pm
Pierre Albin (NYU)
Ricci flow and the determinant of the Laplacian on non-compact surfaces
February 19, 3:10-4 pm
Sean Paul (Wisconsin)
Hyperdiscriminant polytopes, Chow Polytopes, and K-energy asymptotics on Algebraic manifolds
March 12, 3:10-4 pm
Tim Austin (UCLA)
Rational group ring elements with kernels having irrational dimension
March 19, 3:10-4 pm
Ravi Shankar (U Oklahoma)
Riemannian submersions from compact Lie groups
March 26, 3:10-4 pm
Lars Louder
Definable subsets and cyclic subgroups of the free group
April 2, 3:10-4 pm
Zeno Huang (CUNY)
Mean Curvature Flows in Quasi-Fuchsian Manifolds
April 5, 3:10-4 pm, EH 3866
Soren Galatius (Stanford)
RTG-lectures: Cobordism and Madsen-Weiss' theorem I
April 7, 3:10-4 pm
Soren Galatius (Stanford)
RTG-lectures: Cobordism and Madsen-Weiss' theorem II
April 9, 3:10-4 pm
Soren Galatius (Stanford)
RTG-lectures: Cobordism and Madsen-Weiss' theorem III
April 12, 2:10-3 pm, Special Room: EH 4096
Alexander Gorodnik (Bristol U)
Diophantine approximation and automorphic spectrum
April 13, 3:10-4 pm, special room: 4088 EH
Pete Storm (Jane Street Capital)
Infinitesimal rigidity of hyperbolic manifolds with totally geodesic boundary
April 14, 3:10-4 pm
Anders Karllson (U of Geneva)
Spanning trees and heights of tori
April 14, 4:10-5 pm
Moon Duchin (U of Michigan)
Round versus pointy in geometric group theory and convex geometry
April 16, 3:10-4 pm
Zuoqin Wang (Johns Hopkins U)
Semi-Classical Spectral Invariant of Schroedinger Operators



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