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28 August
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Daniel Allcock
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Introduction to the Octave Hyperbolic Plane
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4 September
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No meeting
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11 September
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Misha Kapovich
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3:40PM
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On representation varieties of
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18 September
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Sung Yil Yoon
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Another lower bound to the action dimension of a group
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25 September
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Misha Kapovich
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On representation varieties of
3-manifolds II |
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2 October
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Sung Yil Yoon
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Another lower bound to the action dimension of a group II
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9 October
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Mladen Bestvina
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The work of Sela on Tarski Conjectures: Limit groups
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16 October
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Mladen Bestvina
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The work of Sela on Tarski Conjectures: Limit groups (cont'd)
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23 October
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Grigori Soifer
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Affine crystallographic groups preserving quadratic
forms of the signature (n,2)
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30 October
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Martin Deraux
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The universal cover of certain negatively curved complex surfaces
Abstract: One dimensional complex manifolds are also known as Riemann
surfaces. It is well known that the universal cover of a compact Riemann
surface with a metric of negative curvature is biholomorphic to the unit
disc in the complex plane. In higher dimensions, the situation is
considerably more complicated, as was first illustrated by Mostow and
Siu, who constructed negatively curved Kahler surfaces that are not
diffeomorphic to any locally symmetric space.
I will briefly present some of the issues involved in constructing
such "exotic" surfaces, and describe some of their topological and complex
analytic properties.
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6 November
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Martin Deraux
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The universal cover of certain negatively curved
complex surfaces (cont'd)
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13 November
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Sonjong Hwang
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Mobius structures on 3-manifolds
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20 November
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no meeting
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27 November
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Tom Graber (Harvard)
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JTB140
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Rationally connected varieties
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4 December
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Domingo Toledo
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Arithmeticity of Fake Projective Planes
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14-15 December
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Wasatch topology conference
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