University of Michigan Differential Geometry Seminar

The University of Michigan Differential Geometry Seminar
Fall 2003: Tuesdays 3:10-4:00, 3096 East Hall

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Information for speakers
East Hall, the home of the Department of Mathematics, stands at the corner of Church St. and South University Ave. in Ann Arbor. Check out maps and directions, dining advice, the calendar of local events, the weather forecast, and the lowest fares to/from Detroit (DTW). Lodging options include the university-operated Michigan League and Oxford Conference Center (both within walking distance of East Hall), as well as a number of hotels.

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UM Math seminars

September 9	Lizhen Ji (U. of M.)	Asymptotic dimension of arithmetic groups
September 16	Thomas Foertsch (University of Zurich, visiting U. of M.)	On the hyperbolic product construction of Gromov hyperbolic metric spaces
September 23	not meeting
September 30	Alex Gorodnik (U. of M.)	Orbits of lattices on symmetric spaces and their boundaries
October 7	Lizzie Burslem (U. of M.)	Rigidity of solvable group actions on the circle
October 14	"study" break
October 21	Guoliang Yu (Vanderbilt)	Uniform convexity and Novikov type conjectures
October 28	Marc Bourdon (University of Lille)	Hyperbolic groups with the fixed point property on Hadamard manifolds (after M. Gromov)
November 4	Ralf Spatzier (U. of M.)	Spherical rank rigidity
November 11	Bruce Kleiner (U. of M.)	The cohomology of G with ZG coefficients
November 18	Francois Ledrappier (Notre Dame)	Dimension of projections of invariant measures
November 25	Igor Rivin (Temple University)	Measuring ellipsoids
December 2	Bruno Klingler (University of Chicago)	Affine buildings and Poisson formula
January 20	Kevin Whyte (University of Illinois-Chicago Circle)