Jan. 14
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Organizational meeting
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No speaker
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Jan. 21
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Curt McMullen
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Billards and Hilbert modular surfaces (4pm in 636 SEO)
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Jan. 28
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Peter Shalen
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Hyperbolic volume and the lattice of subgroups of a free group
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Feb. 4
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Ian Agol
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Tameness of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
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Feb. 11
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Ian Agol
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Tameness of hyperbolic 3-manifolds II
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Feb. 18
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Saul Schleimer
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H + nK: Sequences of strongly irreducible Heegaard splittings
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Feb. 25
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Yoav Moriah
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More H + nK
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Mar. 3
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Stephan Tillmann
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Degeneration of hyperbolic structures and normal surfaces in 3-manifolds
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Mar. 10
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Juan Souto
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Short curves in hyperbolic handlebodies are unknotted
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Mar. 12
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Nathan Broaddus
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Noncyclic covers of knot complements
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Mar. 17
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Jian Chen
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On Thurston's compactness theorem
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Mar. 24
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Spring Break
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No speaker
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Mar. 31
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Dave Bachman
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Heegaard stability in amalgamated 3-manifolds
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Apr. 7
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Ian Agol
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Ricci flow and volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
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Apr. 14
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Tao Li
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Compression branched surfaces and tight laminations
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Apr. 21
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Elmas Irmak
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Complexes of curves and mapping class groups
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Apr. 28
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Greg McShane
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Geodesic length series
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May 5
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Exams
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No speaker
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