Robert Tang


Talks given

Conferences and Workshops

  • On various projections maps in the curve complex,
    Geometry and Groups after Thurston, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (August 2013)
  • Thurston’s compactication of Teichmuller space,
    Geometric Group Theory Student Workshop, Bedlewo, Poland (May 2013)
  • Projections in the curve complex arising from covering maps,
    North British Geometric Group Theory, University of Glasgow, UK (August 2012).
  • Coarse geometry of the curve complex via intersection numbers,
    Young Researchers in Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK (April 2012).
  • The mapping class group and the curve complex,
    TCC Algebra Event Day, University of Oxford, UK (April 2011)
  • Maps between curve complexes induced by covers,
    Young Researchers in Mathematics, University of Warwick, UK (April 2011)
  • The curve complex and covers,
    TCC Geometry Event Day, Imperial College London, UK (March 2011)
  • Covering relations between curve complexes,
    Fourth de Brun Workshop: Group Actions, National University of Ireland, Galway (December 2010)

Seminars

  • Geometry and Topology Seminar, Yale University (December 2013)
  • Geometric Group Theory and Topology Seminar, Tufts University (November 2013)
  • Geometry and Topology Seminar at Brown and Yale, ICERM (October 2013)
  • Postdoc and Graduate Student Seminar, ICERM (October 2013)
  • Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar, University of Wroclaw (June 2013)
  • Geometric Group Theory Seminar, IMPAN (April 2013)
  • Group Actions Seminar, University of Sydney (February 2013)
  • Geometry and Topology Seminar, University of Warwick (November 2012)
  • Postgraduate Seminar, University of Warwick (January 2012)
  • Postgraduate Seminar, University of Sydney (September 2011)
  • Postgraduate Seminar, University of Warwick (January 2011)
  • Postgraduate Seminar, University of Sydney (September 2010)

Conferences and Workshops attended

  • Geometric Structures in Low-Dimensional Dynamics, ICERM, Providence, RI, USA (November 2013)
  • Topology, Geometry and Group Theory, Informed by Experiment, ICERM, Prov- idence, RI, USA (October 2013)
  • Exotic Geometric Structures, ICERM, Providence, RI, USA (September 2013)
  • Geometric and Cohomological Group Theory, University of Durham, UK (August 2013)
  • Interactions between low dimensional topology and mapping class groups, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany (July 2013)
  • Cube complexes and 3–manifolds, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA (May 2013)
  • British topology meeting, University of Cambridge, UK (September 2012)
  • Measure and asymptotics in group theory and low-dimensional geometry, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (August - September 2012)
  • Progress in low-dimensional topology, Centre for Quantum Geometry of Moduli Spaces, Aarhus University, Denmark (August 2012)
  • Cubical complexes and applications, International Centre for Mathematics Sciences, Edinburgh, UK (July 2012)
  • Topology and Groups (conference and summer school), Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany (June 2012)
  • Rigidity and Flexibility in Dimensions 2, 3 and 4, Centre International de Rencontres Mathematiques, Luminy, France (May 2012)
  • The Geometry and Dynamics of Teichmuller Spaces, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (August - September 2011)
  • Aspects of hyperbolicity in geometry, topology, and dynamics, University of Warwick, UK (July 2011)
  • Geometric presentations of finite and infinite groups, University of Birmingham, UK (July 2011)
  • Geometry and Arithmetic of Lattices, University of Durham, UK (July 2011)
  • Recent advances in geometric group theory, University of Southampton, UK (June - July 2011)
  • Geometry and Analysis on Graphs and Groups, University of Oxford, UK (November 2010)
  • Postgraduate Group Theory Conference, University of St. Andrews, UK (June 2010)
  • Geometry, Analysis and Logic of Groups, University of Newcastle, UK (April 2010)
  • Young Researchers in Mathematics, University of Cambridge, UK (March 2010)
  • AMSI Summer School in Mathematics, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia (Jan - Feb 2009)
  • ICE-EM/AMSI Summer School in Mathematics, Monash University, VIC, Australia (Jan - Feb 2008)





My "Hair-Raiser" puzzle from the 2011 ΣUMS Puzzle Hunt.