Spring 2005 Schedule

• April 26: Andy Haas, UConn, The Lenstra conjecture for Fuchsian groups and the distribution of geodesic excursions out the end of a hyperbolic 2-orbifold
• April 19: Craig Westerland, Institute for Advanced Study, Framed disk operads and Koszul duality
• April 12: Ralph Kaufmann, UConn, Moduli spaces and cell models for operads
• April 5: Cancelled!! Fred Gardiner, CUNY, Horseshoe and baker maps and hyperelliptic surfaces of infinite genus
• 3:30pm, April 1 (special day and time): Saul Schleimer Sphere recognition lies in NP
• March 22: John Sullivan, T. U. Berlin, Ropelength and Distortion of Knots using Essential Secants
• March 14, 15 (joint with the Colloquium, special room, MSB 118): Paul Yang and Alice Chang, Princeton University,
• March 1: Jesse Razkin, UConn, How many drunk cops does it take to catch one drunk thief?
• March 1: Rob Kusner, U. Mass. Amherst, Conformal structures and necksizes of CMC surfaces II (this talk was cancelled due to bad weather; see the previous item for the replacement talk.)
• Feb. 22 (Special room: MSB 319): Katrin Lescheke, U. Mass. Amherst, Willmore tori with non-trivial normal bundles
• Feb. 8: Hossein Namazi, Yale University, Heegaard splittings and automorphisms of surfaces
• Feb. 1 (Special time: 2:30): Rob Kusner, U. Mass. Amherst, Conformal structures and necksizes of CMC surfaces