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The [[Geometry and Topology]] seminar meets in room 901 of Van Vleck Hall on Fridays from 1:20pm - 2:10pm.
The [[Geometry and Topology]] seminar meets in room '''901 of Van Vleck Hall''' on '''Fridays''' from '''1:20pm - 2:10pm'''.
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For more information, contact [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~dymarz Tullia Dymarz] or [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~kjuchukova Alexandra Kjuchukova].
For more information, contact Shaosai Huang.


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|<b>June 23 at 2pm in Van Vleck 901</b>
|Sept. 14
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/people/staff/david_epstein/ David Epstein] (Warwick)
|Teddy Einstein (UIC)
| [[#David Epstein (Warwick) |''Splines and manifolds.'']]
|Quasiconvex Hierarchies for Relatively Hyperbolic Non-Positively Curved Cube Complexes
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|Oct. 12
 
|Marissa Loving
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|TBA
 
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===David Epstein (Warwick)===
''Splines and manifolds.''
 
[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~rkent/Abstract.Epstein.2015.pdf Abstract (pdf)]
 
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Spring 2016: [[Geometry and Topology Seminar Spring 2016]]
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|September 11
| [https://uwm.edu/math/people/tran-hung-1/ Hung Tran] (UW Milwaukee)
| [[#Hung Tran|''Relative divergence, subgroup distortion, and geodesic divergence'']]
| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~dymarz T. Dymarz]
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|September 18
| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~dymarz Tullia Dymarz] (UW Madison)
| [[#Tullia Dymarz|''Non-rectifiable Delone sets in amenable groups'']]
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|September 25
| [https://jpwolfson.wordpress.com/ Jesse Wolfson] (Uchicago)
| [[#Jesse Wolfson|''Counting Problems and Homological Stability'']]
| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mmwood/ M. Matchett Wood]
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|October 2
| [https://riemann.unizar.es/~jicogo/ Jose Ignacio Cogolludo Agustín] (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
| [[#Jose Ignacio Cogolludo Agustín|''Topology of curve complements and combinatorial aspects'']]
|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~maxim L. Maxim]
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|October 9
| [http://people.brandeis.edu/~mcordes/ Matthew Cordes] (Brandeis)
| [[#Matthew Cordes|''Morse boundaries of geodesic metric spaces'']]
| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~dymarz T. Dymarz]
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|October 16
| [http://www.math.jhu.edu/~bernstein/ Jacob Bernstein] (Johns Hopkins University)
| [[#Jacob Bernstein (Johns Hopkins University)|''Hypersurfaces of low entropy'']]
| [http://www.sites.google.com/a/wisc.edu/lu-wang/ L. Wang]
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|October 23
| [https://sites.google.com/a/wisc.edu/ysu/ Yun Su] (UW Madison)
| [[#Yun Su (Brandeis)|''Higher-order degrees of hypersurface complements.'']]
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|October 30
| [http://www.math.stonybrook.edu/phd-student-directory Gao Chen] (Stony Brook University)
| [[#Gao Chen(Stony Brook University)|''Classification of gravitational instantons '']]
| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~bwang B.Wang]
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|November 6
| [http://scholar.harvard.edu/gardiner Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner] (Harvard)
| [[#Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner|''Higher-dimensional symplectic embeddings and the Fibonacci staircase'']]
| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~kjuchukova Kjuchukova]
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|November 13
|Oct. 19
| [http://people.brandeis.edu/~ruberman/ Danny Ruberman] (Brandeis)
|Sara Maloni
| [[#Danny Ruberman|''Configurations of embedded spheres'']]
|TBA
| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~kjuchukova Kjuchukova]
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|November 20
|Nov. 16
| [https://www.math.toronto.edu/cms/izosimov-anton/ Anton Izosimov] (University of Toronto)
|Xiangdong Xie
| [[#Anton Izosimov (University of Toronto)|''TBA'']]
|TBA
| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~maribeff/ Mari-Beffa]
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|December 4
| [http://www.math.wisc.edu/~westrich/ Quinton Westrich] (UW Madison)
| [[#Quinton Westrich (UW Madison) |''Harmonic Chern Forms on Polarized Kähler Manifolds'']]
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|December 11
|[http://kaihowong.weebly.com/ Tommy Wong] (UW Madison)
| [[#Tommy Wong (UW Madison)|''Milnor Fiber of Complex Hyperplane Arrangement.'']]
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== Fall Abstracts ==
== Fall Abstracts ==


===Teddy Einstein===


===Hung Tran===
"Quasiconvex Hierarchies for Relatively Hyperbolic Non-Positively Curved Cube Complexes"
''Relative divergence, subgroup distortion, and geodesic divergence''
 
In my presentation, I introduce three new invariants for pairs $(G;H)$ consisting of a finitely generated group $G$ and a subgroup $H$. The first invariant is the upper relative divergence which generalizes Gersten's notion of divergence. The second invariant is the lower relative divergence which generalizes a definition of Cooper-Mihalik. The third invariant is the lower subgroup distortion which parallels the standard notion
of subgroup distortion. We examine the relative divergence (both upper and lower) of a group with respect to a normal subgroup or a cyclic subgroup. We also explore relative divergence of $CAT(0)$ groups and relatively hyperbolic groups with respect to various subgroups to better understand geometric properties of these groups. We answer the question of Behrstock and Drutu about the existence of Morse geodesics in $CAT(0)$ spaces with divergence function strictly greater than $r^n$ and strictly less than $r^{n+1}$, where $n$ is an integer greater than $1$. More precisely, we show that for each real number $s>2$, there is a $CAT(0)$ space $X$ with a proper and cocompact action of some finitely generated group such that $X$ contains a Morse bi-infinite geodesic with the divergence equivalent to $r^s$.
 
 
===Tullia Dymarz===
''Non-rectifiable Delone sets in amenable groups''
 
In 1998 Burago-Kleiner and McMullen constructed the first
examples of coarsely dense and uniformly discrete subsets of R^n that are
not biLipschitz equivalent to the standard lattice Z^n. Similarly we
find subsets inside the three dimensional solvable Lie group SOL that are
not bilipschitz to any lattice in SOL. The techniques involve combining
ideas from Burago-Kleiner with quasi-isometric rigidity results from
geometric group theory.
 
===Jesse Wolfson===
''Counting Problems and Homological Stability''
 
In 1969, Arnold showed that the i^{th} homology of the space of un-ordered configurations of n points in the plane becomes independent of n for n>>i. A decade later, Segal extended Arnold's method to show that the i^{th} homology of the space of degree n holomorphic maps from \mathbb{P}^1 to itself also becomes independent of n for large n, and, moreover, that both sequences of spaces have the same limiting homology. We explain how, using Weil's number field/function field dictionary, one might have predicted this topological coincidence from easily verifiable statements about specific counting problems.  We then discuss ongoing joint work with Benson Farb and Melanie Wood in which we use other counting problems to predict and discover new instances of homological stability in the topology of complex manifolds.
 
 
===Matthew Cordes===
''Morse boundaries of geodesic metric spaces''
 
I will introduce a new type of boundary for proper geodesic spaces, called the Morse boundary, that is constructed with equivalence classes of geodesic rays that identify the ``hyperbolic directions" in that space. (A ray is Morse if quasi-geodesics with endpoints on the ray stay bounded distance from the ray.) This boundary is a quasi-isometry invariant and a visibility space. In the case of a proper CAT(0) space the Morse boundary generalizes the contracting boundary of Charney and Sultan and in the case of a proper Gromov hyperbolic space this boundary is the Gromov boundary. Time permitting I will also discuss some results on Morse boundary of the mapping class group and briefly describe joint work with David Hume developing a capacity dimension for the Morse boundary.
 
===Anton Izosimov===
''TBA''
 
===Jacob Bernstein===
''Hypersurfaces of low entropy''
 
The entropy is a quantity introduced by Colding and Minicozzi and may be thought of as a rough measure of the geometric complexity of a hypersurface of Euclidean space.  It is closely related to the mean curvature flow.  On the one hand, the entropy controls the dynamics of the flow. On the other hand, the mean curvature flow may be used to study the entropy.  In this talk I will survey some recent results with Lu Wang that show that hypersurfaces of low entropy really are simple.
 
===Yun Su===
''Higher-order degrees of hypersurface complements.''
 
===Gao Chen===
''Classification of gravitational instantons''
 
A gravitational instanton is a noncompact complete hyperkahler manifold of real dimension 4 with faster than quadratic curvature decay. In this talk, I will discuss the recent work towards the classification of gravitational instantons. This is a joint work with X. X. Chen.
 
===Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner===
''Higher-dimensional symplectic embeddings and the Fibonacci staircase''
 
McDuff and Schlenk determined when a four dimensional symplectic ellipsoid can be embedded into a ball, and found that when the ellipsoid is close to round, the answer is given by an infinite staircase determined by the odd-index Fibonacci numbers.  I will explain joint work with Richard Hind, showing that a generalization of this holds in all even dimensions.
 
===Danny Ruberman===
''Configurations of embedded spheres''


Configurations of lines in the plane have been studied since antiquity. In recent years, combinatorial methods have been used to decide if a specified incidence relation between certain objects ("lines") and other objects ("points") can be realized by actual points and lines in a projective plane over a field. For the real and complex fields, one can weaken the condition to look for topologically embedded lines (circles in the real case, spheres in the complex case) that meet according to a specified incidence relation. I will explain some joint work with Laura Starkston (Stanford) giving new topological restrictions on the realization of configurations of spheres in the complex projective plane.
Non-positively curved (NPC) cube complexes are important tools in low dimensional topology and group theory and play a prominent role in Agol's proof of the Virtual Haken Conjecture. Constructing a hierarchy for a NPC cube complex is a powerful method of decomposing its fundamental group essential to the theory of NPC cube complex theory. When a cube complex admits a hierarchy with nice properties, it becomes possible to use the hierarchy structure to make inductive arguments. I will explain what a quasiconvex hierarchy of an NPC cube complex is and briefly discuss some of the applications. We will see an outline of how to construct a quasiconvex hierarchy for a relatively hyperbolic NPC cube complex and some of the hyperbolic and relatively hyperbolic geometric tools used to ensure the hierarchy is indeed quasiconvex.


== Archive of past Geometry seminars ==
== Archive of past Geometry seminars ==
 
2017-2018 [[Geometry_and_Topology_Seminar_2017-2018]]
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2016-2017  [[Geometry_and_Topology_Seminar_2016-2017]]
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2015-2016: [[Geometry_and_Topology_Seminar_2015-2016]]
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2014-2015: [[Geometry_and_Topology_Seminar_2014-2015]]
2014-2015: [[Geometry_and_Topology_Seminar_2014-2015]]
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Revision as of 17:18, 7 September 2018

The Geometry and Topology seminar meets in room 901 of Van Vleck Hall on Fridays from 1:20pm - 2:10pm.
For more information, contact Shaosai Huang.

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Fall 2018

date speaker title host(s)
Sept. 14 Teddy Einstein (UIC) Quasiconvex Hierarchies for Relatively Hyperbolic Non-Positively Curved Cube Complexes (Dymarz)
Oct. 12 Marissa Loving TBA (Kent)
Oct. 19 Sara Maloni TBA (Kent)
Nov. 16 Xiangdong Xie TBA (Dymarz)

Fall Abstracts

Teddy Einstein

"Quasiconvex Hierarchies for Relatively Hyperbolic Non-Positively Curved Cube Complexes"

Non-positively curved (NPC) cube complexes are important tools in low dimensional topology and group theory and play a prominent role in Agol's proof of the Virtual Haken Conjecture. Constructing a hierarchy for a NPC cube complex is a powerful method of decomposing its fundamental group essential to the theory of NPC cube complex theory. When a cube complex admits a hierarchy with nice properties, it becomes possible to use the hierarchy structure to make inductive arguments. I will explain what a quasiconvex hierarchy of an NPC cube complex is and briefly discuss some of the applications. We will see an outline of how to construct a quasiconvex hierarchy for a relatively hyperbolic NPC cube complex and some of the hyperbolic and relatively hyperbolic geometric tools used to ensure the hierarchy is indeed quasiconvex.

Archive of past Geometry seminars

2017-2018 Geometry_and_Topology_Seminar_2017-2018

2016-2017 Geometry_and_Topology_Seminar_2016-2017

2015-2016: Geometry_and_Topology_Seminar_2015-2016

2014-2015: Geometry_and_Topology_Seminar_2014-2015

2013-2014: Geometry_and_Topology_Seminar_2013-2014

2012-2013: Geometry_and_Topology_Seminar_2012-2013

2011-2012: Geometry_and_Topology_Seminar_2011-2012

2010: Fall-2010-Geometry-Topology