The geometric group theory seminar takes place on Tuesday, 15:45 - 17:15,
room 1C-01, Allianzgebäude (05.20).
Summer 2013
Tuesday, June 25: Michael Puschnigg (Heidelberg and Marseille)
Die Baum-Connes-Vermutung
Tuesday, June 11: Kevin Wortman (University of Utah)
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Tuesday, May 21: Sara Maloni (Université Paris-Sud 11)
Plumbing construction and slices of Quasifuchsian groups
Tuesday, May 14: David Wraith (National University of Ireland Maynooth)
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Tuesday, April 30: Łukasz Grabowski (University of Oxford)
Some spectral computations of random walk operators
Winter 2012/13
Tuesday, January 29: Daniel Haase (KIT)
Enttwistete Zetafunktionen für abelsche Varietäten
Tuesday, January 22: Javier Aramayona (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Finite rigid sets in curve complexes
Tuesday, December 11: Stefan Wenger (Universität Freiburg/CH)
Nilpotent groups without exactly polynomial Dehn function
Summer 2012
Tuesday, July 10: W. Kohnen (Universität Heidelberg)
Tuesday, June 5: Robert Young (University of Toronto)
Filling inequalities and non-positive curvature
Tuesday, May 22: Moon Duchin (Tufts University, Medord, MA, USA)
Fine asymptotic geometry
Winter 2011/12
Tuesday, December 6: Igor Rivin (IAS, Princeton)
Asymptotic properties of infinite groups
Tuesday, November 29: Vincent Emery (MPI, Bonn)
Covolumes of non-uniform arithmetic lattices in PU(n,1)
Tuesday, November 22: Fabian Januszewski
Von L-Funktionen und Familien
Summer 2011
Thursday, May 5: Ruth Charney (Brandeis/ETHZ)
Length functions of right-angled Artin groups
Thursday, May 19: Ferran Valdez (Morelia)
Veech groups and arithmetic of infinite translation surfaces
Thursday, June 16: Lizhen Ji (Michigan)
Arithmetic groups vs. mapping class groups
Thursday, June 28: Tobias Strubel (Zürich)
Fenchel-Nielsen Koordinaten für Darstellungsvarietäten
Winter 2010/11
Tuesday, November 2: Anton Zorich (Rennes):
Square-tiled cyclic covers
Summer 2010
Tuesday, April 20: Jürgen Wolfart (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Tuesday, May 4: Cornelia Drutu (Oxford):
Kazhdan and Haagerup properties from the viewpoint of median spaces, applications to the mapping class groups
Tuesday, May 18: Christopher Leininger (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign):
Flat structures and degenerations
Tuesday, June 29: Christoph Pittet (Université Marseille):
Dehn functions detect some large scale geometry features of groups