Student Geometry and Topology Archives for Fall 2018 to Spring 2019


Organizational Meeting

When: Tue, September 5, 2017 - 4:30pm
Where: Math Grad Lounge
Speaker: () -


Lines of irrational slope are sparse on the once-punctured torus

When: Mon, September 11, 2017 - 11:00am
Where: Math 1310
Speaker: Stephen Gilles (UMD) -


Intro to Hodge Theory

When: Mon, September 18, 2017 - 11:00am
Where: Math 1310
Speaker: Daniel Kaufman (UMD) -


Hodge Theory Continued

When: Mon, September 25, 2017 - 11:00am
Where: Math 1310
Speaker: Daniel Kaufman (UMD) -


Quasiconformal Mappings

When: Mon, October 2, 2017 - 11:00am
Where: Math 1310
Speaker: Jenny Rustad (UMD) -


Differentiability of path structure preserving maps in dimension 2

When: Mon, October 9, 2017 - 10:00am
Where: Math 1310
Speaker: Julius Lang (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena) -


Finsler geometry: Monochromatic metrics are generalized Berwald

When: Mon, October 9, 2017 - 11:00am
Where: Math 1310
Speaker: Nina Bartelmeß (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena) -


Intro to Fibre Bundles

When: Mon, October 16, 2017 - 11:00am
Where: Math 2400
Speaker: Zachary Greenberg (UMD) -


Cohomology Classes Represented by Measured Foliations

When: Mon, November 13, 2017 - 11:00am
Where: Math 1310
Speaker: Jenny Rustad (UMD) -


Čech Yourself Before You W̌rech Yourself (An introduction to Čech Cohomology)

When: Mon, November 20, 2017 - 11:00am
Where: Math 1310
Speaker: Danny Kaufman (UMD) -


An Introduction to Three Manifolds

When: Wed, February 7, 2018 - 1:00pm
Where: Math 1310
Speaker: Zachary Greenberg (UMD) -


The dilogarithm function and hyperbolic volume

When: Wed, February 21, 2018 - 1:00pm
Where: Kirwan Hall 1310
Speaker: Laura Iosip () -


Gromov's invariant

When: Wed, February 28, 2018 - 1:00pm
Where: Kirwan Hall 1310
Speaker: S. Gilles (UMD) -


An Introduction to Orbifolds

When: Wed, March 7, 2018 - 1:00pm
Where: Kirwan Hall 1310
Speaker: Danny Kaufman (UMD) -


Intro to Coxeter Groups

When: Wed, April 4, 2018 - 1:00pm
Where: Kirwan Hall 1310
Speaker: Danny Kaufman (UMD) -


Train Tracks and Laminations

When: Wed, April 11, 2018 - 1:00pm
Where: Kirwan Hall 1310
Speaker: S. Gilles (UMD) -


Moduli spaces of dilation surfaces

When: Wed, April 18, 2018 - 1:00pm
Where: Kirwan Hall 1310
Speaker: Jenny Rustad (UMD) -


Moduli spaces of dilation surfaces

When: Wed, April 25, 2018 - 1:00pm
Where: Kirwan Hall 1310
Speaker: Jenny Rustad (UMD) -


Thurston's Pictures of Orbifolds

When: Wed, May 2, 2018 - 1:00pm
Where: Kirwan Hall 1310
Speaker: Zachary Greenberg (UMD) -