OU Geometry and Topology Seminar

The Geometry and Topology Seminar normally meets on Wednesday afternoons in PHSC 809. When the speaker is from OU, the talk normally begins at 3:45pm. When the speaker is from outside OU, the talk normally begins at 4:00pm, with tea at 3:30pm in PHSC 424. For more information about the seminar, contact Jeff Meyer.

Earlier semesters (Fall 2005 - Fall 2013)

Spring 2015 Talks

1/21	Henry Segerman (Oklahoma State)	Pachner moves and crushing normal surfaces
1/28	Jing Tao	Growth Tight Actions
2/4	no seminar
2/11	no seminar
2/18	Catherine Pfaff (Bielefeld)	When Outer Space behaves like Teichmuller space (or hyperbolic spaces) & how we can use this to understand Out(F_n)
2/25	no seminar
3/4	no seminar
3/11	no seminar
3/18		Spring Break
3/25	Funda Gultepe (UIUC)	Constructing fully irreducible automorphisms of the free group via geometric Dehn twisting
4/1	Thomas Koberda (Yale)	Convex cocompactness in right-angled Artin groups
4/8	no seminar
4/15	no seminar
4/22	Benjamin Linowitz (Michigan)	Effective rigidity in spectral geometry
4/29

Fall 2014 Talks

8/20	Lina Wu (CUNY)	Studying harmonic differential forms by extending the scope of L^q growth
8/27		Organizational meeting
9/3	Robert Tang	Shadows of Teichmueller discs in the curve graph
9/10	Garrett Alston	Holomorphic curves in symplectic and contact geometry, I
9/17	Garrett Alston	Holomorphic curves in symplectic and contact geometry, II
9/24	Jing Tao	Uniform growth rate
10/1	Talia Fernós (UNC Greensboro)	Rigidity of actions on CAT(0) cube complexes
10/8	Noel Brady	Hyperbolic Hydra
10/15	no seminar	week of Distinguished Lecture Series with David E. Rowe
10/22	no seminar
10/29	talk rescheduled
11/5	Chenxu He	Infinitesimal rigidity of gradient steady Ricci soliton in dimension three
11/12	Ignat Soroko	Virtually special free-by-cyclic groups
11/19
11/26		Thanksgiving Holiday
12/3	Michael Jablonski	Einstein solvmanifolds have maximal symmetry

Spring 2014 Talks

1/17	Dan Knopf (Texas)	Type-II singularities of Ricci flow
1/22	John Harvey (Notre Dame)	Orbifolds and Alexandrov geometry
1/29	Will Wylie (Syracuse)	Sectional curvature for Riemannian manifolds with density
2/5	Trent Schirmer (Oklahoma State)	Heegaard splittings, free tangle decompositions, and the fundamental group of knots
2/12	Mark Feighn (Rutgers-Newark)	Folding paths in Outer space
2/19	Max Forester	Trees and stable commutator length
2/25	Vera Tonic (Ben Gurion)	Introduction to asymptotic dimension theory for discrete groups
2/26	Mark Hagen (Michigan)	Cubulating some free-by-Z groups
3/5	no seminar
3/12	no seminar	some people are traveling to STDC
3/19		Spring Break
3/26	Michael Jablonski	A step towards the Alekseevskii Conjecture
4/2	Danielle O'Donnol (Oklahoma State)	Legendrian Graphs
4/9	Sean Bowman (Oklahoma State)	Knots in the page of an open book
4/11-13		Spring Redbud Topology Conference
4/16	no seminar
4/23	Scott Thuong	All Four-Dimensional Infra-Solvmanifolds are Boundaries
4/30	Ignat Soroko	A new linearity criterion of Bou-Rabee and McReynolds