Spring 2000 Lectures

 25 January 
 G. Mikhalkin (Utah)
 
 Surfaces in 3-space and their amoebas
 01 February 
 Mladen Bestvina (Utah)
 
 Proper actions of SL_n(Z) on contractible manifolds
08 February 
no meeting 
 
 
15 February 
Kai-Uwe Bux (Utah) 
 
 Connectivity of fibers
22 February 
no meeting 
 
 
 29 February
Kai-Uwe Bux (Utah)
 
 Connectivity of fibers II
 28 March
Blake Thornton (Utah) 
 
 Asymptotic cones of symmetric spaces
 04 April
Kai-Uwe Bux (Utah)
 
 The FP_3 conjecture for metabelian groups
11 April 
 Mladen Bestvina (Utah)
 
 Braid groups are linear [d'apres Stephen Bigelow]
18 April 
Mladen Bestvina (Utah) 
 
 Braid groups are linear [d'apres Stephen Bigelow] (continued)
25 April
Martin Deraux 
 
 TBA