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


Spring 2010 Schedule


The seminar is held weekly on Tuesday, 3:30-4:30 in Hill Center 425 .





Date Speaker
Title/abstract


1/19

1/26
Prof. S. Fenley, Florida State and Princeton, title: Quasigeodesic pseudo-Anosov flows abstract

2/2

abstract

2/9 Dr. Zhongtao Wu, Princeton University Title: Cosmetic Surgery Conjecture on S^3
abstract

2/16
Dr. Jie Xiao, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
abstract

2/23
no speaker


3/2 Dr. Chris Atkinson, Temple University

Title: A combinatorial lower bound on the volume of hyperbolic Coxeter polyhedra

abstract

3/9 Dan Staley, Rutgers

Title: Geodesic rays in CAT(0) groups

abstract

3/16

spring break


3/23 Prof. Yi Ni, Caltech,

Title: Zero-crossing and one-crossing knots in thickened surfaces

abstract

3/30 Prof. David Futer, Temple University, Title: Cusp volume of fibered 3-manifolds


abstract

4/6 Nan Li, Rutgers, title: Alexandrov Spaces with Relatively Maximal Volume


abstract

4/13 Prof. Daryl Cooper, UC Santa Barbara, title: The marked length spectrum of a projective manifold or orbifold.


abstract

4/20 Dr. HE Chengxu, Univ. Penn., Title: Non-negatively curved cohomogeneity one manifolds.


abstract

4/27 special time and room: 2-3pm, Hill 313

Professor Guofang Wei, University of California, Santa Barbara, title: On volume of hyperbolic orbifolds

abstract

5/4 No more seminar this semester