TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
SPRING 2008
THURSDAY 4:30-5:30 pm

Fine Hall 314


DATE
SPEAKER
TOPIC
Feb. 21
Peter Storm, University of Pennsylvania
Deformation of a hyperbolic 4-orbifold
Feb. 28
Andras Stipsicz,
Columbia University
Invariants of Legendrian knots in Heegaard Floer homology
Mar. 6
Daryl Cooper,
UCSB
Real Projective Structures and Non-standard analysis
Mar. 13
Feng Luo,
Rutgers University
Variational principles on triangulated surfaces
Mar. 27
Ian Biringer,
University of Chicago
Sequences of Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds with Unfaithful Markings
Apr. 3
Chris Leininger,
University of Illinois, Urbana
Length Spectrum of a Flat Metric
April 10
Jean-Marc Schlenker,
Toulouse
On the renormalized volume of quasifuchsian manifolds
April 17
Nancy Hingston, College of New Jersey
Loop products and closed geodesics
April 24
Kenneth Bromberg,
University of Utah
The convexity of length functions on Fenchel-Neilsen coordinates for Teichmuller space
May 1
Robert Lipshitz,
Columbia University
HF-hat for 3-manifolds with boundary, via a toy example