Topology & Geometry Seminar: Fall 2009 Schedule

Seminars are held Tuesdays from 3:35-4:35PM in LOV 201. Here's the tentative schedule. Click on the speaker for the abstract.

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• August 25: organizational meeting
• September 1: Stephen Bigelow (UCSB) : An Introduction to Braid Groups
• September 8: Stephen Bigelow (UCSB): Representations of Braid Groups
• September 15: Daniel Robinson (FSU): Differentiable Banach Manifolds
• September 22: Aaron Valdivia (FSU): Pseudo-Anosov Dilitations
• September 29: Randy Heaton (FSU): Arithmetic and Topological Genus
• October 6: Mike Gagliardo (Jacksonville University): Geometry in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
• October 13:John George (FSU): Surface Foliations & Quadratic Differentials I
• October 20:John George (FSU): Surface Foliations & Quadratic Differentials II
• October 27: No Seminar
• November 3: Crystal White (FSU) : Finding Geodesics on Submanifolds of S^2
• November 10: Kyle Armstrong (FSU):Coxeter Links
• November 17: Ettore Aldrovandi (FSU):Categories and homotopy types
• November 24: No Seminar
• December 1: Wolfgang Heil (FSU)