Fall 2008
Fridays from 3:30 to 4:30 pm in Room 370

Date
 Speaker
 Title
Aug 22 No seminar  
Aug 29 Dan Silver (USA) Alexander Polynomials, Homotheties, and Twisted Invariants (Abstract)
Sep 5 Dan Silver (USA) Alexander Polynomials, Homotheties, and Twisted Invariants, cont. (Abstract)
Sep 12 Josh Barnard (USA) Tameness of surface actions on hyperbolic spaces: introduction (Abstract)
Sep 19 Josh Barnard (USA) Tameness of surface actions on hyperbolic spaces: the geometrically infinite case (Abstract)
Sep 26 Josh Barnard (USA) Distorted surfaces in hyperbolic groups (Abstract)
Oct 3 Iain Moffatt (USA) The word problem for link groups (Abstract)
Oct 10 Iain Moffatt (USA) More on the word problem and other topics (Abstract)
Oct 17 No seminar  
Oct 24 No seminar Math/Stat party 3:30-5:30 at Intramural Pavilion
Oct 31 Scott Carter (USA) On Kuperberg's invariant for involutory Hopf algebras (Abstract)
Nov 7 Scott Carter (USA) On Kuperberg's invariant for involutory Hopf algebras, part 2 (Abstract)
Nov 13
Nov 14		 Noel Brady (OU) Filling invariants for groups and complexes (Colloquium)
Density of Isoperimetric Spectra (Abstracts)
Nov 21 Pallavi Dani (LSU & Emory) Morse theory and conjugacy classes of finite subgroups (Abstract)
Nov 28 No seminar Thanksgiving


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