The graduate student Geometry-Topology seminar was started in the spring of 2005 to provide students in geometry and topology a place for presenting their research to their peers. If you are interested in presenting to the group, please contact Jeff Frazier (jfrazier@math.umd.edu) or Andy Sanders (sanderandy@gmail.com) for details.

NEWS: As of Fall 2008, the Student Geometry-Topology Seminar will once again be separate from the Faculty Geometry-Topology seminar. The regular meeting time for the seminar will be Wednesdays at 3pm, in room 1311 of the math building. Anyone with an interest in the subject is welcome to attend and to give a talk. Our group is informal, friendly, and low-pressure.

Day: Wednesday
Time: 3:00pm
Place: Math 1313

Future talks: TBA
Wednesday Mar. 25 2009	Domingo Ruiz - UMCP
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Wednesday Mar. 11 2009	Jeff Frazier - UMCP
Compactifications of Teichmuller space via surface group actions on R-trees II
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Wednesday Mar. 4 2009	No seminar - Ryan Hoban's thesis defense
Wednesday Feb. 25 2009	Jeff Frazier - UMCP
Compactifications of Teichmuller space via surface group actions on R-trees I
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Wednesday Feb. 18 2009	Ryan Hoban - UMCP
Local Rigidity of Triangle Groups in Sp (4, R)
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Wednesday Feb. 11 2009	Andy Sanders - UMCP
Rank-1 Higgs bundles over Riemann surfaces
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Wednesday Dec. 3 2008	Steve Balady - UMCP
A categorical approach to van Kampen's theorem
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Wednesday Nov. 19 2008	Jeff Frazier - UMCP
An introduction to Bass-Serre theory
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Wednesday Nov. 12 2008	Aaron Magid - Michigan
Quasifuchsian hyperbolic 3-manifolds and Bers's simultaneous uniformization
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Wednesday Nov. 5 2008	Rob Delgado - UMCP
Some facts about SL(2,R) representations of the genus two surface group
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Wednesday Oct. 29 2008	Andy Sanders - UMCP
Thurston's Classification of Surface Diffeomorphisms
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Wednesday Oct. 22 2008	Jeff Frazier - UMCP
An Introduction to Measured Foliations, Part II
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Wednesday Oct. 15 2008	Andy Sanders - UMCP
An Introduction to Measured Foliations, Part I
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Wednesday Oct. 8 2008	David Aulicino - UMCP
An Introduction to Teichmuller Space
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Wednesday Oct. 1 2008	Jeff Frazier - UMCP
The Symplectic Representation of Mod(S) and the Torelli Group
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Wednesday Sept. 24 2008	Weiqiang Wu - UMCP
Complex of Curves and the Birman Exact Sequence
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Wednesday Sept. 17 2008	Andy Sanders - UMCP
The Dehn-Nielsen-Baer Theorem
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Wednesday Sept. 10 2008	Jeff Frazier - UMCP
An Introduction to Mapping Class Groups with Some Hyperbolic Geometry
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