Fall 2000 Lectures

  29 August  
  Xiangdong Xie (Utah)
 
  Tits boundary and quasi-isometries between CAT(0) 2-complexes
  5 September  
  Misha Kapovich (Utah)
 
  On the size of hyperbolic manifolds
  12 September  
  Koji Fujiwara
 
  Bounded cohomology of Haken manifolds
  19 September  
  Misha Kapovich (Utah)
 
  On the size of hyperbolic manifolds II
  26 September  
  Misha Kapovich (Utah)
 
  On the size of hyperbolic manifolds III
  3 October  
  Grisha Mikhalkin (Utah)
 
  Topology of algebraic hypersurfaces:
Maslov's dequantization
  10 October  
  Domingo Toledo
 
  Residual finiteness of line arrangements
(after E. Hironaka)
  17 October  
  Kai-Uwe Bux (Utah)
 
  Contractibility of Outer Space
(after Steiner and Skora)
  24 October  
  Kai-Uwe Bux
 
  Contractibility of Auter Space
  31 October  
  Grisha Mikhalkin (Utah)
 
  Maslov's dequantization, Viro's patchworking and amoebas
  7 November  
  Emina Alibegovic
 
  Translation lengths in Out(F_n)
  14 November  
  Mladen Bestvina
 
  Bounded cohomology of subgroups of mapping class groups
  21 November  
  No meeting
 
 
  28 November  
  Zlil Sela (Hebrew University)
 
  Diophantine geometry over groups and
the elementary theory of a free group
  5 December  
 Eric Swenson (BYU)
 
  An example of a word hyperbolic free-by-cyclic group
with a surface subgroup
  12 December  
  Bruce Kleiner
  2:00 PM
  Uniformizing metric 2-spheres
  12 December  
  Panos Papasoglu (Paris-Sud)
  4:15 PM
JWB335
  Asymptotic topology and group splittings