SPRING 1998
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January 29 :
Speaker: Prof. Dani Wise, Cornell University
Title: Coherent Groups and the Perimeter of 2-Complexes
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February 12 :
Speaker: Prof. Shmuel Weinberger, University of Chicago
Title: Arithmetic Groups And Critical Points Of Riemannian
Functionals.
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February 19 :
Speaker: Prof. Martin Bridson, Oxford
Title: The geometry of the word problem in finitely presented
groups
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February 26 :
Speaker: Prof. Mladen Bestvina, U. of Utah and Texas
Title: Local connectivity of limit sets
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March 5 :
Speaker: Prof. Alejandro Adem, University of Wisconsin
Title: Groups, Fields and Topological Symmetries
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March 12 :
Speaker: Prof. Jozef Siran, Slovak University of Technology,
Bratislava
Title: Large Graphs of Given Diameter and Degree
Abstract
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March 24 :
Speaker: Prof. Hermann Heineken, , University of Wuerzburg
Title: On Normal Embeddings Of p-Groups Into p-Groups
Abstract
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March 26 :
Speaker: Prof. George Casella, Cornell University
Title: Date-driven Gibbs sampling
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April 23:
Speaker: Prof. Kenneth S. Brown, Cornell University
Title: Geometry and Probability in Three Dimensions.
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May 7 :
Speaker: Prof. Ron Fintushel, Michigan State University
Title: Knot theory and 4-manifolds