STUDENT TOPOLOGY AND GEOMETRY SEMINAR
Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma
Fall 2008

Meeting time: Fridays, 3:30-4:20 p.m.
Room: PHSC 809
Date Speaker Title
29 August Organizational meeting
5 September TaraLee Mecham The geometry of Sol
(Picture Gallery of Tara's seminar)
12 September TaraLee Mecham The geometry of Sol II
19 September Sang Rae Lee Examples of groups that are quasi-isometric, but
have different cohomology of groups
26 September No meeting, time reserved for
Karcher special lecture
Karcher special lecture, by Dr. Chris Cashen
University of Utah
3 October James Dover Rigid Morphism Complexes and the Chromatic Number
10 October No meeting OU-Texas game holiday
17 October Sang Rae Lee Two interesting examples of groups of wreath product
Picture Archive 24 October Dr. Dan Guralnik Ends and boundaries of discrete groups (1)
(Picture Gallery of Dan's seminar)
ARCHIVE: 31 October Dr. Dan Guralnik Ends and boundaries of discrete groups (2)
Spring 2008 7 November Kashyap Rajeevsarathy Heegaard splittings of Haken manifolds have bounded distance
Fall 2007 14 November Peter Rowell The Gauss map: A fully illustrated, differentiable journey
through the land of surfaces
Spring 2007 17 November Antara Mukherjee Two-dimensional Isoperimetric Inequalities
Using Varopoulos Transport
Fall 2006 21 November Peter Rowell The Generalized Gauss Map
Spring 2006 28 November No meeting Thanksgiving break
Fall 2005 5 December Quan Tran Dehn functions and the theory of pictures
12 December Quan Tran Hyperbolic groups have linear second order Dehn functions

Happy holidays! See you all next semester!

For more information, email Vera Tonic (vtonic"at"math.ou.edu)
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