Fall 1999 Lectures


 
07 September 
 Mladen Bestvina (University of Utah)
 
 Van Kampen's Embedding Obstruction for Discrete Groups 
14 September
 
   
21 September
 Sung Yil Yoon (University of Utah)
 
Accessibility of Groups
28 September
 
   
05 October
 
   
12 October
 Kari Vilonen (Brandeis)
 (joint session with algebraic geometry)
 Representation theory of algebraic groups and the affine Grassmannian
19 October
 Domingo Toledo (University of Utah)
 
 Moduli of real cubic surfaces
26 October
 Kevin Whyte (University of Utah)
 
 Quasi-isometric rigidity of graphs of groups
02 November
 Kevin Whyte (University of Utah)
 
 Quasi-isometric rigidity of graphs of groups II
09 November
 Kai-Uwe Bux
 
 Deterministic aperiodic tile sets (J. Kari and P. Papasoglu)
16 November
 Kevin Whyte
 postponed
 Quasi-isometric rigidity of graphs of groups III
23 November
 Tadeusz Januszkiewicz (Wroclaw University and Polish Academy of Sciences)
 
 Cohomology of buildings and continous cohomology of their automorphism groups (joint work with Jan Dymara)   (click here for the abstract)
30 November
 
   
07 December
 Misha Kapovich (University of Utah)
 
 On periods of abelian  differentials