January 23

Chris Cashen, U of Utah

Quasi-isometries between tubular groups

January 30

Chris Cashen, U of Utah

Quasi-isometries between tubular groups II

February 6

Dariusz Wilczynski, Utah State U

Composition Algebras and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra for Polynomial Equations with a Tame Tail

February 13

Mladen Bestvina, U of Utah

Can higher rank lattices embed in Out(F_n)?

Feruary 27

Benson Farb, U Chicago

Analogies and contrasts between Riemann's moduli space and locally symmetric spaces

March 5

Yves de Cornulier, U of Rennes

Lie groups, their Dehn functions, and their asymptotic cones

April 2

Kevin Wortman, U of Utah

Cohomology of rank one arithmetic groups over function fields

April 10, 2:30, LCB 323 Special day/time/place!

Alexander Fel'shtyn, Boise State U

Groups with property R_∞ and twisted Burnside-Frobenius theorem

April 16

Daniel Allcock, U Texas at Austin

The Hurwitz monodromy problem in degree 4