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Jan. 15
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Organizational Meeting
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No Speaker
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Jan. 29
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Ben Klaff
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Representation-volume rigidity for hyperbolic manifolds
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Feb. 5
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Ivan Dynnikov
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Recognizing the unknot by using a monotone reduction
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Feb. 12
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Elizabeth Klodginski
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Surfaces transverse to the flow in fibred 3-manifolds
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Feb. 19
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Sylvain Maillot
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Three-manifolds and orbifolds whose fundamental group has nontrivial center
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Feb. 26
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Ben Klaff
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Representation-volume rigidity for hyperbolic manifolds, II
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Mar. 12
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Gregory Leibon
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The symmetries of hyperbolic volume
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Mar. 14, Fri. 2pm
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Bill Goldman
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SL(2,C)-character varieties of some elementary surfaces
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Mar. 19
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Spring Break
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No Seminar
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Mar. 26
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Stephen Bigelow
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Representations of the symmetric group
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Apr. 2
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Ken Bromberg
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Geometric inflexibility and 3-manifolds that fibre over the circle
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Apr. 9
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Peter Scott
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The JSJ decomposition revisited
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Apr. 16
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Howie Masur
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Quasiconvexity in the curve complex
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Apr. 23
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Dan Knopf
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Singularity models for the Ricci flow
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Apr. 30
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Saul Schleimer
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Examples in the mapping class group
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May 7
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Exams
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No Seminar
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