Topology and Geometry Seminar Spring 2010- T 3:35-4:45

Topology and Geometry Seminar, Spring 2010

Organizer: Eriko Hironaka
Contact email: hironaka@math.fsu.edu

Date	Speaker	Title
1/12/09		Organizational Meeting
1/19/10	J.C. Gomez-Larranaga	Lusternik-Schnirelmann category: new developments and an intriguing link with systolic geometry
1/26/10	Kyounghee Kim	Linearization and Globalization
2/2/10	Dan Robinson	Elastic Shape Analysis of Open Planar Curves
2/9/10	Dan Robinson	Elastic Shape Analysis of Open Planar Curves
2/16/10	Randy Heaton	Perron-Frobenius Theorem
2/23/10	David Valdivia	Pseudo-Anosov Mapping classes and their asymptotic behavior
3/2/10	Eriko Hironaka	Lehmer's number and the simplest pseudo-Anosov braid
3/4/10 (Special Topology Seminar)	Susan Williams	Alexander-Lin twisted polynomials
3/5/10 (Colloquium)	Dan Silver	Twisted Alexander Invariants
3/18/10 (Special Topology Seminar)	Steve Ferry	Flexibility and Rigidity in Gromov-Hausdorff space
3/23/10	Jamil Mortada	Geometric subgroups of the mapping class group
3/30/10	Ken Baker (University of Miami)	Dehn surgery, cabling, and contact structures
4/6/10	Russ Waller	A Namioka-type Characterization of Baire Spaces
4/13/10	Dongxu Wang	Covering of 3manifold by Three open solid tori
4/20/10	Crystal White	A New Metric- Finding Geodesics between Open Curves