Topology Seminar

 

SPRING  2004

Thursdays 4:30-5:30 pm
Fine Hall 314


Date
Speaker
Title
Feb. 19

Igor Mineyev, University of Illinois, Urbana and the Institute for Advanced Study

Bounded cohomology and hyperbolic groups

Feb. 26 Tom Mrowka, MIT
Witten's conjecture and Property P
March 4 Diarmuid J. Crowley, Pennylvania State University On classifying simply connected 7-manifolds
March 11 Jongil Park, Konkuk University and  Michigan State University New symplectic 4-manifolds with $b_2^+=1$
March 18  

March 25  
April 1 Jacob Rassmussen,
Princeton University
TBA
April 8 Cameron Gordon,
University of Texas, Austin
Knots with unknotting number 1
Bill Browder Birthday Topology Seminar Doubleheader - Note special times
April 15
3:00 p.m.
Alejandro Adem,
University of Wisconsin
Representations and K-Theory of the Braid Group
April 15
4:30 p.m.
Bernhard Hanke, Universitat Muenchen Enlargeability and Index Theory
April 22 Peter Milley,
Princeton University
Small volume cusped hyperbolic three-manifolds
April 29 Igor Mineyev,
University of Illinois, Urbana and IAS
Bounded cohomology and hyperbolic groups