Fall 2006 Schedule

• December 5: Ed Taylor, Weslyan University, TBA, Postponed
• November 28: Kristen Sellke, UConn, The Kauffman skein module of torus knots Postponed
• November 14: George Daskalopoulos, Brown University, Harmonic Maps into Singular Spaces
• October 31: Elizabeth Denne, Harvard University, Ropelength of Knots
• October 24: Dylan Thurston, Columbia University, A combinatorial definition of Heegaard-Floer homology for links
• October 10: Martin Bridgeman, Boston College, Hausdorff dimension under bending deformations and the Weil-Petersson metric
• October 17: no seminar
• October 3, MSB 311 (note the special room): Jane Gilman, Rutgers University and Yale University, Informative Words and Discreteness
• Sept. 19: Rob Kusner, UMass Amherst, How degenerate are CMC surfaces?
• Sept. 12: Kasra Rafi, UConn, Geodesic Rays in Teichmuller Space and the Mapping Class Group have Quadratic Divergence Rate