Geometry and Topology
Seminar
Fall 2006-Spring 2007
Seminars are held on Mondays, 4:10-5 p.m.,Bahen Centre, room 2165
(unless otherwise indicated)
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Abstract |
| September 25 |
Jeremy Wong, University of Toronto |
Fibering Manifolds-with-boundary |
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| October 2 |
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| October 16 |
Vitali Kapovitch, University of Toronto |
Almost nilpotency of almost nonnegtively curved spaces | html |
| October 23 |
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| October 30 4:10-5:00 |
Dmitri Burago, Pennsylvania State |
Boundary rigidity and volume
minimality for metrics close to a flat one |
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| October 30 5:10-6:00 (note: special time) |
Christoph Böhm, University of Münster |
Manifolds with positive
curvature operators are space forms |
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| November 6 |
Robert McCann, University of Toronto |
Towards a Ricci Flow on Metric
Measure Spaces |
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| November 13 |
Gad Naot, University of Toronto |
The Universal Approach to Link
Homology Theory |
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| November 20 |
Young Heon Kim, University of Toronto |
Determinants of Laplacians as
functions on spaces of metrics |
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| November 27 |
Rina Rotman, University of Toronto |
Estimates for the minimal length
of various 1-dimensional stationary objects in Riemannian geometry |
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| December 4 |
Roland Roeder, University of Toronto |
Constructing Hyperbolic
Polyhedra using Newton's Method |
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| January 8 |
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no meeting until January 29 |
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| January 29 |
Benjamin Stephens, University of Toronto |
Minimizing area subject to a
length constraint |
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| February 5 |
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no meeting this week |
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| February 12 |
Alex Nabutovsky, University of Toronto |
Lengths of Geodesic Segments and
Related Problems |
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| February 19 | ----------------- |
reading week--no seminar |
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| February 26 |
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| March 5 |
Vitali Kapovitch, University of Toronto |
Proof of Perelman's Stability
Theorem |
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| March 12 |
Wolfgang Ziller, University of Pennsylvania |
Defining manifolds via Lie groups |
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| March 19 |
Vitali Kapovitch, University of Toronto |
Proof of Perelman's Stability Theorem (continued) | |
| March 26 |
Uri Bader, University of Chicago |
Groups of automorphisms of
Cartan Geometries |
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| April 2 |
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| April 9 |
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| April 16 |
Carlo Petronio, University of Pisa |
Combinatorial and Geometric
Methods in Topology |
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| April 23 |
Elizabeth Denne, Harvard |
The distortion of a knotted curve |
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| April 24 3:10-4:00 room BA6183 (note: this is a Tuesday) |
Burkhard Wilking, University of Münster |
New Ricci flow invariant
curvature conditions in large dimensions |
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| April 30 |
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| May 7 |
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| May 8 3:10-4:00 BA6183 (note: this is a Tuesday) |
Larry Guth, Stanford |
Volumes of balls in large
Riemannian manifolds |
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