Geometry/Topology Seminar 1997-98



This seminar is funded as one of 18 Dean's Workshops In Harpur College (College of Arts and Sciences) at Binghamton University.


First Semester

DateSpeakerTitle
9/11 John Meier (Lafayette College) Connectivity at infinity and right-angled Artin groups
9/18 Peter Hilton (Binghamton) The legacy of Henry Whitehead
9/25 Matt Brin (Binghamton) A non-professional introduction to wavelets
10/2 No meeting Rosh Hashanah
10/9 David Gauld (New Zealand) Non-metrizable manifolds
10/16 Tom Farrell (Binghamton) Surgery Groups of Knot Groups
10/23 Dan Farley (Binghamton student) Cohomology of cocompact simplicial complexes I
10/30 Dan Farley (Binghamton student) Cohomology of cocompact simplicial complexes II
11/6 Heather Johnston (Rutgers U) Homology manifold bordism
11/13 Barbara Shipman (Rochester) Convex polytopes in the geometry of generalized flag manifolds
11/20 Mike Davis (Ohio State U) When is a Coxeter system determined by its Coxeter group?
This lecture will take place in Public Service Room D
11/27 no meeting Thanksgiving
12/4 Jim Davis (U of Indiana) Assembly maps and isomorphism conjectures
12/11 Len Vanwyk (Lafayette College) What happened to my dissertation?



Second Semester

DateSpeakerTitle
1/22 no meeting Curt McMullen is speaking at Cornell.
1/29 D. Wise (Cornell) Subgroup Separability of the Figure 8 Knot Group
2/5 Ranja Roy (Binghamton student) Asphericalization of Polyhedra
2/12 Shmuel Weinberger (U of Chicago) Equivariant Classification Problems
2/19 M. Bridson (Oxford) Non-positive curvature, subgroups and compact cores
2/26 M. Bestvina (Utah & Texas) Artin groups of finite type
This lecture will take place in Public Service Room D
3/5 A. Adem (U of Wisconsin & Bonn) Topological Models for Galois Cohomology
3/12 R. Bieri (Frankfurt) Commutative Algebra and Topology throw Light
on a Group Theoretic Scene
3/19 no meeting spring break
3/26 Simon Norton (Cambridge U & Montreal) Monstrous Moonshine
4/2 Dan Farley (Binghamton student) Two theorems on automorphism groups of trees
4/9 Dan Farley (Binghamton student) Two theorems on automorphism groups of trees
4/16 Craig Jensen (Cornell student) Cohomology of Aut(F_n) and Moduli Spaces of Graphs
4/23 Steve Ferry On a conjecture of Higson and Roe
4/30 no meeting Cornell Topology Festival                                                                                     
5/7 Ron Fintushel (Michigan State U) Exotic surfaces in 4-manifolds
5/21 Kai-Uwe Bux (University of Frankfurt) Finiteness Properties of Solvable S-arithmetic Groups

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