Rutgers University--Department of Mathematics
Topology/geometry seminar
organized by Steve Ferry, Xiao-chun Rong, Jian Song, Chris Woodward, and Feng Luo.

Spring 2009 Schedule


The seminar is held weekly on Tuesday, 3:30-4:30 in Hill Center 423 .

Date Speaker
Title/abstract
1/20 Robert Lipshitz, Columbia, NOTE: room 705, start at 4pm. Title: Locality in Morse theory and Heegaard Floer theory
abstract
1/27 Sergio Fenley, Princeton Univ. and Florida State Univ.

Title: Rigidity of pseudo-Anosov flows transverse to R-covered foliations abstract

2/3
Kim Ruane, Tufts, title: Aut(F_2) is a CAT(0) group. abstract
2/10
Tao LI, Boston College and Princeton University,

title: "A quadratic bound on the number of boundary slopes of essential surfaces"

2/17
2/24
David Futer, Temple University, Title: The geometry of unknotting tunnels 		abstract
2/27
Jesus Gonzalez, National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico,

a special topology-geometry seminar talk, 2-3pm, Hill 525

Title: Symmetric topological complexity and the embedding dimension of projective spaces

abstract
3/3
3/10 Feng Luo, Rutgers, title: Variational principles on polyhedral surfaces
abstract
3/17 Spring Break
3/24 Dr. Jie Qing, UC Santa Cruz, and IAS, title: Finiteness and gap theorems in conformal geometry
abstract
3/31 Roland Roeder, SUNY Stony Brook,
Title: Combinatorial Aspects of Andreev's Classification of Hyperbolic Polyhedra abstract
3/31 Dieter Kotschick, Ludwig Maxmilian University of Munich and IAS

A special topology seminar, 2-3pm, room SERC 216

Title: Bordism of projective space bundles and geometric applications

abstract
4/7 Professor Yuan Yu, university of washington, title: On special Lagrangian equations
4/14 Mark McConnell, title: "Hecke Operators for Arithmetic Groups via Cell Complexes"
abstract
4/21 Corey Hoelscher, Rutgers, title: The topology of low dimensional cohomogeneity one manifolds
abstract
4/28 Prof. Huai-dong Cao, Lehigh, Title: Geometry of shrinking Ricci solitons
abstract