OU Geometry and Topology Seminar

The Geometry and Topology Seminar meets in PHSC 809 on Wednesdays, normally at 3:45pm. Some of our talks are part of a joint seminar series with Oklahoma State University (OSU), sometimes held at OSU in Stillwater. For more information about the seminar, contact Max Forester.

Earlier semesters (Fall 2005 - Fall 2008)

Fall 2009 Talks

9/2	Ravi Shankar	Riemannian submersions from compact Lie groups
9/9	Ravi Shankar	Riemannian submersions from compact Lie groups - II
9/16	Dmitri Scheglov	Triangle billiards
9/23	Dmitri Scheglov	Triangle billiards - II
9/30	~~Hyam Rubinstein (Melbourne and UC Berkeley)~~	~~The hyperbolic dodecahedral space a computational challenge of Haken~~ This talk is cancelled.
10/7
10/14	Jing Tao (Utah)	Linearly bounded conjugator property for mapping class groups
10/21	Nikolay Buskin	"Typical" subgroups and "economical" separability in free groups
10/28
11/4	Max Forester	Promotion, transgression, and transfer
11/11	Nitu Kitchloo (UCSD)	Morse-Bott theory in infinite dimensions
11/18	Philip Huling (St Louis University)	Conformal deformations of finite volume hyperbolic 3-orbifolds
11/25		Thanksgiving Holiday
12/2	Maggy Tomova (Iowa)	tba (OU-OSU series)
12/9

Spring 2009 Talks

2/11	Dan Guralnik	Cubulated CAT(0) spaces and their boundaries
2/18	Kasra Rafi	Convexity properties of the Teichmüller space
2/25	Dan Guralnik	Cubulated CAT(0) spaces and their boundaries - II
3/4	Murad Özaydin	Actions of p-tori and non-existence of equivariant maps
3/11	Murad Özaydin	Actions of p-tori and non-existence of equivariant maps - II
3/18		Spring Break
3/25	James Dover	The equivariant Csorba conjecture
4/1	James Dover	The equivariant Csorba conjecture - II
4/8	Hanna Bennett (U. Chicago)	Area distortion in groups
4/15	Darryl McCullough	Roots of Dehn twists
4/22	Darryl McCullough	Roots of Dehn twists - II
4/29	Matt Clay	Current twisting and nonsingular matrices
5/6	Max Forester	Smith theory revisited