Geometry/Topology Seminar

Spring 2000

March 30

Gennadi Kasparov,
The Novikov conjecture for "bolic" groups.

April 6

Nadya Shirokova, UIUC
"Geodesic flows and contact toric manifolds."

April 10 (SPECIAL LECTURE at 1:30 in Eck 203 -- in place of Geometric Literacy)

Kai Cieliebak, Stanford
TBA

April 13

Alex Gamburd
On spectral gap for infinite index congruence subgroups

April 20

Dima Jakobson
Extremal problems on graphs

May 4

Igor Rivin
Simple curves on surfaces

May 11

Mohan Ramachandran
Finiteness theorems for complex hyperbolic manifolds

May 18

Steve Ferry
Topological rigidity and convergence of Riemannian manifolds

June 1

Daniel Allcock, Harvard
Hyperbolic geometry of the moduli space of real cubic surfaces.

• Benson Farb, farb@math.uchicago.edu, or
  
• Kevin Corlette, kevin@math.uchicago.edu, or
  
• Alex Eskin, eskin@math.uchicago.edu, or
  
• Mel Rothenberg, mel@math.uchicago.edu, or
  
• Shmuel Weinberger, shmuel@math.uchicago.edu