GEAR Seminars

Geometry, Groups and Dynamics/GEAR Seminars

The following is an archived list of seminars. The talks are listed here alphabetically by speaker’s last name.

Name/Affiliation Title of Talk Date Links
Alessandrini, Daniele
(Heidelberg University)
Introduction to Spectral Networks, Lecture 1 12/8/14 Video
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Alessandrini, Daniele
(Heidelberg University)
Introduction to Spectral Networks, Lecture 2 12/10/14 Video
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Alessandrini, Daniele
(Heidelberg University)
Introduction to Spectral Networks, Lecture 3 12/11/14 Video
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Alexander, Stephanie
(Illinois)
Themes and directions in Alexandrov geometry 11/4/14 Video
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Aougab, Tarik

(Brown University)

Weil-Petersson analogs for graphs 4/2/19 Video(unavailable)

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Aramayona, Javier

(Madrid)

The abelianization of automorphism groups of right-angled Artin groups 12/1/15 Video
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Athreya, Jayadev

(Illinois)

Homogeneous dynamics and applications to number theory 4/21/15 Video
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Athreya, Jayadev
(Illinois)
Trajectories on suraces and moduli spaces: a survey in honor of Miryam Mirzakhani’s Fields medal 9/23/14 Video

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Athreya, Jayadev
(University of Washington)
Siegel-Veech transforms are in L2 10/26/17 Video
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Bell, Mark

(Illinois)

The conjugacy problem for Mod(S) 4/11/17 Video

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Bell, Mark

(Illinois)

Polynomial-time curve reduction 3/9/17 Video

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Bell, Mark

(Illinois)

Finding paths in graphs of triangulations 9/29/15 Video
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Bell, Mark
(Illinois)
Slowly converging Pseudo-Anosovs 1/26/16 Video
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Bell, Mark
(Illinois)
Polynomial-time Nielsen–Thurston classification 11/15/16 Video
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Bell, Mark
(University of Warwick)
Planes, Trains & Automorphisms 2/24/15 Video
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Berg, David
(Illinois)
Characterization of Aleksandrov Spaces of Curvature Bounded Above by Means of the Metric Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality; part II 2/25/16 Video
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Berg, David
(Illinois)
Characterization of Aleksandrov Spaces of Curvature Bounded Above by Means of the Metric Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality 2/11/16 Video
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Bergeron, Maxime
(University of Chicago)
The Topology of Representation Varieties 10/19/17 Video
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Bering, Edgar

(UIC)

Compatibility of length functions and the geometry of their deformation spaces 4/18/17 Video

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Bernhart, Frank
(Illinois)
Flattening equations for Chromatic Polynomials 2/4/16 Video
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Bestvina, Mladen

(University of Utah)

Boundaries of (some) Out(Fn)-complexes 4/16/15 Video(unavailable)

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Bishop, Richard

(Illinois)

Clairaut’s theorem and potential mechanics on metric spaces 4/9/15 Video
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Boca, Florin

(Illinois)

Some statistical properties of digits in continued fractions 9/10/15 Video
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Bou-Rabee, Khalid

(City College of CUNY)

The topology of local commensurability graphs 10/13/15 Video
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Bradlow, Steven
(Illinois)
Higgs bundles and flexibility of surface group representations 2/16/16 Video
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Branco, Lucas
(Oxford University)
Higgs bundles, Lagrangians and mirror symmetry 12/1/16 Video
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Canary, Richard

(University of Michigan)

Topological Restrictions on Anosov Representations 4/30/19 Video(unavailable)

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Cantrell, Michael

(UIC)

Ergodic Theory and Rigidity of Nilpotent Groups 11/3/15 Video
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Ceccerini-Silberstein, Tullio
(University of Sannio)
A Garden of Eden Theorem for Abelian Harmonic Models 1/23/18 Video
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Cellarosi, Francesco
(Queens University, Canada) 
Central Limit Theorem for odometers and B-free integers 4/10/18 Video
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Charette, Virginie
(University of Sherbrooke)
Some symplectic geometry in the 3-d Einstein Universe 3/1/16 Video
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Chas, Moira

(Stony Brook)

The generalization of the Goldman bracket to three manifold and its relation to Geometrization 9/20/18 Video(unavailable)

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Chen, Xiuxiong
(Stony Brook)
A Liouville theorem on Kaehler Ricci flat metric in Cn with conical singularities along {0} x Cn-1 2/12/15 Video
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Chu, Michelle

(UT Austin)

Special subgroups of Bianchi groups 4/20/17 Video

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Clarkson, Corrin
(Indiana University)
Heegaard Floer homology and 3-manifold mutation 3/17/16 Video
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Clay, Matt
(University of Arkansas)
Stable Commutator Length in Baumslag-Solitar groups 11/13/14 Video
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Clay, Matthew
(University of Arkansas)
L^2-torsion of free-by-cyclic groups 2/9/16 Video
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Collier, Brian

(University of Maryland)

The geometry of maximal SO(2,n) representations 5/4/17 Video

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Collier, Brian
(Illinois)
SO(n,n+1) surface group representations 3/15/16 Video(unavailable)
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Collier, Brian
(Illinois)
A mapping class group invariant parameterization of maximal Sp ( 4, ℝ) representations 2/17/15 Video
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Connell, Christopher
(Indiana University)
Lower hyperbolic rank rigidity of quarter-pinched manifolds 2/5/18 Video(unavailable)
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D’Angelo, John P.

(Illinois)

Groups Associated with Rational Proper Maps 2/21/17 Video

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D’Angelo, John P.

(Illinois)

Proper holomorphic mappings throughout mathematics 11/5/15 Video(unavailable)
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Davison, Ben
(Lausanne)
Higgs bundles, character varieties and cohomological Hall algebras 12/4/13 Video
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Delman, Charles

(EIU)

Alternating knots and Montesinos knots satisfy the L-space knot conjecture 3/28/17 Video

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Disarlo, Valentina

(Indiana)

Combinatorial rigidity of the arc complex 10/6/15 Video
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Dowdall, Spencer
(Illinois)
Hyperbolic extensions of free groups 11/11/14 Video
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Dowdall, Spencer
(Vanderbilt University)
The geometry of hyperbolic free group extensions 4/26/16 Video(unavailable)
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Duchin, Moon
(Tufts University)
Curvature of graphs 9/5/17 Video(unavailable)
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Dumas, David
(UIC)
Recurrent Weil-Petersson geodesics with non-uniquely ergodic ending laminations 10/14/14 Video
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Dumas, David
(UIC)
Limits of cubic differentials and projective structures 9/26/17 Video
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Dunfield, Nathan
(Illinois)
Certifying the Thurston norm via twisted homology 1/29/15 Video
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Dunfield, Nathan
(Illinois)
Floer homology, group orders, and taut foliations of hyperbolic 3-manifolds 9/8/16 Video
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Dunfield, Nathan
(Illinois)
A tale of two norms 8/27/15 Video
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Durham, Matthew

(Michigan)

Convex cocompactness in finitely generated groups 5/2/17 Video

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Erlandsson, Viveka

(University of Bristol)

Mirzakhani’s curve counting 4/25/19 Video(unavailable)

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Farb, Benson

(University of Chicago)

How to make predictions in topology (resp. arithmetic) using arithmetic (resp. topology) 10/15/15 Video
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Filip, Simion
(Harvard)
Hodge theory and its applications in Teichmuller dynamics 10/6/16 Video
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Fredrickson, Laura

(University of Texas – Austin)

Constructing solutions of Hitchin’s equations near the ends of the moduli space 11/17/15 Video(unavailable)
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Frohman, Charles
(University of Iowa)
Skeins and Characters 11/14/17

 

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Fuchs, Elena
(Illinois)
Thin Monodromy Groups 1/20/15 Video
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Gao, Xinghua

(Illinois)

Orders from PSL_2(ℝ) Representations and Non-examples 1/19/17 Video

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Gekhtman, Ilya
(Yale University)
Green metric, Ancona inequalities and Martin boundary for relatively hyperbolic groups 11/30/17 Video
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Golan, Gili

(Vanderbilt)

The generation problem in Thompson group F 2/7/17 Video

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Goldman, Bill
(University of Maryland)
Three-dimensional affine crystals 9/16/14 Video
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Goujard, Elise
(Rennes)
Counting closed geodesics on flat surfaces 9/18/14 Video
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Gultepe, Funde
(Illinois)
Fully irreducible Automorphisms of the Free Group via Dehn twisting in $\sharp_k(S^2 \times S^1)$ 1/27/15 Video
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Gupta, Neha
(Illinois)
The primitivity index function for a free group, and untangling closed curves on surfaces 2/5/15 Video
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Gur, Alper
(Indiana University)
Hypersurfaces with Central Convex Cross-Sections 10/11/16 Video
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Guzman, Rosemary
(Illinois)
Extending the $\log (2k-1)$-Theorem 1/28/16 Video
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Hartman, Yair
(Northwestern University)
Which groups have bounded harmonic functions? 2/20/18 Video
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Heersink, Byron

(Illinois)

An effective asymptotic result for the Lebesgue measure of the sum-level sets for continued fractions 4/28/15 Video
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Hoffman, Neil
(Melbourne)
Knot Complement Commensurability 12/17/15 Video
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Horbez, Camille
(Rennes)
The Tits alternative for the automorphism group of a free product 2/19/15 Video
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Hoskins, Vicky
(Freie Universität Berlin)
Group actions on quiver varieties and applications 3/13/18 Video
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Hu, Ying

(University of Nebraska-Omaha)

Taut foliations and left-orderability of 3 manifold groups 2/21/19 Video(unavailable)

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Hull, Michael
(UIC)
Acylindrically hyperbolic groups and small cancellation quotients 9/4/14 Video
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Kapovich, Ilya

(Hunter College)

Index properties of random automorphisms of free groups 1/17/19 Video(unavailable)

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Kapovich, Ilya

(Illinois)

On purely loxodromic actions 9/3/15 Video
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Kapovich, Ilya
(Illinois)
Counting conjugacy classes of fully irreducibles in Out(Fr) 1/30/18 Video
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Kelsey, Gregory
(Bellarmine University)
The horofunction boundary of the lamplighter group 11/17/16 Video
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Kent, Autumn

(University of Wisconsin)

Congruence subgroups in genus one 2/26/19 Video(unavailable)

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Kent, Autumn

(Wisconsin)

Crash course in convex cocompactness 4/6/17 Video

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Kharlampovich, Olga
(Hunter College of CUNY)
Equations in free associative algebras and group algebras of hyperbolic groups 3/3/16 Video
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Kielak, Dawid
(University of Bielefeld)
Fibering of 3-manifolds and related groups 5/29/18 Video

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Kim, Heejoung
(Illinois)
Stable subgroups and Morse subgroups of mapping class groups 3/6/18 Video
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Koberda, Thomas
(University of Virginia)
Mapping class group and right-angled Artin group actions on the circle 3/8/16 Video
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Kossovskiy, Ilya

(University of Vienna)

Dynamics and Cauchy-Riemann Geometry 10/27/15 Video
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Kravchenko, Rostyslav
(Northwestern University)
Characteristic random subgroups and their applications 12/5/17 Video
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Kydonakis, Georgios
(Illinois)
A Higgs bundle construction for representations in exceptional components of Sp(4,R)-character varieties 1/16/18 Video(unavailable)
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La Nave, Gabriel

(Illinois)

A new continuity flow of Monge-Ampere type, Gromov-Hausdorff limits and Minimal Model program 4/30/15 Video
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Lakeland, Grant
(Eastern Illinois University)
Cheeger constants of arithmetic hyperbolic surfaces 2/23/16 Video
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Lanier, Justin

(Georgia Tech)

Normal generators for mapping class groups are abundant 9/25/18 Video(unavailable)

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Leininger, Chris

(Illinois)

Marked length rigidity for NPC Euclidean cone metrics 4/7/15 Video
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Leininger, Chris
(Illinois)
Limits of Teichmüller geodesics 1/21/16 Video
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Leininger, Chris
(Illinois) 
Polygonal billiards, Liouville currents, and rigidity 5/1/18 Video(unavailable)
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Leininger, Chris
(Illinois)
Homology and dynamics of pseudo-Anosovs 3/5/15 Video
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Liu, Chih-Chung
(National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
Vortex Moduli Spaces and the Space of Holomorphic Maps 4/7/16 Video
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Lodha, Yash
(Cornell University)
A new solution to the von Neumann-Day problem for finitely presented groups 12/2/14 Video(unavailable)

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Logares, Marina
(Oxford)
Character Varieties and the Hodge Monodromy Representation 10/25/16 Video
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Loja Fernandes, Rui

(Illinois)

Poisson manifolds of compact types 9/24/15 Video
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Loustau, Brice
(Rutgers-Newark)
(Hyper-)Kähler geometry of character varieties 4/14/16 Video(unavailable)
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Loving, Marissa

(University of Illinois)

Spectral Rigidity of q-differential Metrics 2/14/19 Video(unavailable)

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Loving, Marissa
(Illinois)
Least Dilatation of Pure Surface Braids 12/7/17 Video
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Lukyanenko, Anton
(University of Michigan)
Separated nets in the Heisenberg group 4/19/16 Video(unavailable)
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Lustig, Martin
(Université Aix-Marseille III)
Long turns and the index of irreducible free group automorphisms 11/20/14 Video
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Malestein, Justin
(Universitat Bonn)
Arithmetic quotients of the mapping class group from covers 10/9/14 Video
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Merriman, Claire
(Illinois)
Coding geodesic flows and various continued fractions 2/15/18 Video
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Mihailescu, Eugen
(Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy)
Dynamics for Smale skew products and conformal systems with overlaps 4/20/18 Video(unavailable)
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Miller, Nicholas

(Purdue University)

Arithmetic progressions in the primitive length spectrum 9/8/15 Video
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Minemyer, Barry
(Ohio State University)
The isometric embedding problem for length metric spaces 11/3/16 Video
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Minsky, Yair

(Yale University)

Fibrations, subsurfaces and triangulations 11/19/15 Video
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Modami, Babak
(Illinois)
Recurrent Weil-Petersson geodesics with non-uniquely ergodic ending laminations 10/21/14 Video
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Mousley, Sarah

(Illinois)

Boundary maps for some hierarchically hyperbolic spaces 1/24/17 Video

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Movshovich, Yevgenya
(EIU)
On /\-positioning of arcs between parallel support planes 3/29/16 Video(unavailable)
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Mrowka, Tomasz
(MIT)
Gauge theory for webs and foams 9/1/16 Video
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Mukamel, Ronen
(Chicago)
Billiards, the square root of eleven and a Teichmuller curve of genus one 12/9/14 Video
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Mutanguha, Jean-Pierre

(University of Arkansas)

Immersions and Laminations on Free Groups 4/18/19 Video(unavailable)

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Myasnikov, Alexei

(Stevens Institute of Technology)

Complexity of finitely generated residually finite groups 4/2/15 Video
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Neitzke, Andy
(University of Texas at Austin)
Spectral Networks and harmonic maps 8/25/14 Video
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Nichols, Margaret

(University of Chicago)

Taut sutured handlebodies as twisted homology products 11/13/18 Video(unavailable)

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Obeidin, Malik

(Illinois)

Hyperbolic volumes of random links 3/2/17 Video

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Oliveira, Andre
(University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal)
The singular fibers of the Hitchin map 3/17/15 Video
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Osin, Denis
(Vanderbilt University)
Induced group actions 4/28/16 Video(unavailable)
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Pankau, Joshua

(University of Iowa)

Stretch Factors Coming From Thurston’s Construction 1/24/19 Video(unavailable)

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Pascaleff, James
(Illinois)
How can you have dynamics when all you have is a category? 3/10/15 Video
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Patel, Priyam
(Purdue University)
Effective separability for hyperbolic surface and 3-manifold groups 10/7/14 Video
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Pengitore, Mark
(Purdue University)
Effective Twisted Conjugacy Separability of Nilpotent Groups 9/28/17 Video(unavailable)
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Pfaff, Catherine

(UC Santa Barbara)

Stable Strata of Geodesics in Outer Space 4/13/17 Video

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Pfaff, Catherine
(Bielefeld)
Dense geodesic rays in the quotient of Outer space 3/3/15 Video
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Pfaff, Catherine
(University of California at Santa-Barbara) 
Random Walks on Out(Fr) 3/27/18 Video(unavailable)
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Pho-On, Witsarut

(Illinois)

Infinite unicorn paths and Gromov boundaries 12/8/15 Video
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Puder, Doron
(IAS Princeton)
Word Maps and Measure Preservation 3/12/15 Video
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Rachel Roberts
(Washington University)
Approximating codimension one foliations of 3-manifolds 3/31/15 Video
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Rafiqi, Ahmad
(Cornell)
Constructing surface homeomorphisms with given stretching factors 1/22/15 Video
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Randecker, Anja

(University of Toronto)

Asymptotics of the expected diameter of translation surfaces 2/5/19 Video(unavailable)

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Rousseau, Jerome
(Universidade Federal da Bahia/Illinois)
Hitting time statistics for observations and application to random dynamical systems 9/30/14 Video
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Salter, Nick

(University of Chicago)

4-manifolds can be surface bundles over surfaces in many ways 9/22/15 Video
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Samperton, Eric

(UCSB)

From the dynamics of surface automorphisms to the computational complexity of 3-manifolds 9/11/18 Video(unavailable)

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Sanders, Andy

(UIC)

Complex deformations of Anosov representations 12/3/15 Video
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Sapir, Jenya
(Illinois)
Counting non-simple closed curves on surfaces 9/2/14 Video
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Sapir, Mark

(Vanderbilt and Illinois)

Flat submaps in CAT(0) (p,q)-maps and maps with angles 3/14/17 Video

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Sapir, Mark
(Vanderbilt University)
On the Jones subgroup of Thompson’s group 3/19/15 Video
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Sasaki, Dounnu
(Waseda University, Tokyo)
Subset currents on surface groups 4/12/16 Video(unavailable)
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Schaposnik, Laura
(UIC)
On Cayley and Langlands type correspondences for Higgs bundles 11/28/17 Video
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Schleimer, Saul
(University of Warwick)
Recognizing three-manifolds 9/1/15 Video
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Schupp, Paul
(Illinois)
Finitely generated groups with co-c.e. word problem (d’apres Morozov) 4/21/16 Video(unavailable)
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Shalen, Peter
(University of Illinois at Chicago)
Homology and volume for hyperbolic 3-orbifolds, and enumeration of arithmetic groups 4/5/16 Video
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Shapiro, Boris
(Stockholm University)
Around Bochner-Krall problem 2/10/15 Video
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Shin, Hyunshik
(UIC Math)
Pseudo-Anosov mapping classes not arising from Penner’s construction 2/3/15 Video
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Shonkwiler, Clayton
(Colorado State University)
The Symplectic Geometry of Polygon Space and How to Use It 11/29/16 Video
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Sinaei, Zahra

(Northwestern University)

Convergence of harmonic maps 11/12/15 Video
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Strenner, Balazs
(Wisconsin Math)
Pseudo-Anosov maps arising from Penner’s construction 9/25/14 Video
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Taha, Diaaeldin

(University of Washington)

The Farey Sequence Next-Term Algorithm, and the Boca-Cobeli-Zaharescu Map Analogue for Hecke Triangle Groups G_q 1/29/19 Video(unavailable)

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Tang, Robert

(Oklahoma)

Shadows of Teichmueller discs in the curve graph 10/8/15 Video
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Tao, Jing
(University of Oklahoma) 
Genus bounds in right-angled Artin groups 4/24/18 Video(unavailable)
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Taylor, Samuel

(Yale University)

Stability in mapping class groups and right-angled Artin groups 4/14/15 Video
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Tiozzo, Giulio

(Yale University)

Random walks and random group extensions 9/15/15 Video
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Toulisse, Jérémy

(University of Southern California)

Hitchin representations in Sp(4,R) and conformally flat space-times 5/3/16 Video(unavailable)
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Tseng, Jimmy

(University of Bristol)

Simultaneous dense and nondense orbits 5/7/15 Video
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Tserunyan, Anush

(Illinois)

Probability groups 10/1/15 Video
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Uyanik, Caglar

(Yale)

Atoroidal dynamics of subgroups of Out(FN) 3/7/19 Video(unavailable)

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Uyanik, Caglar
(Illinois)
Dynamics of free group automorphisms and a subgroup alternative for Out(F_N) 9/20/16 Video
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Vega, Carlos

(Saint Louis University)

Null distance on a spacetime 9/17/15 Video
(unavailable)
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Vinogradov, Ilya
(Bristol)
Directions in Hyperbolic Lattices 9/9/14 Video
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Vlamis, Nick

(University of Michigan)

Algebraic and topological properties of big mapping class groups 2/2/17 Video

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Watanabe, Yohsuke
(Utah Math)
Local finiteness of the curve complex and tight geodesics 11/6/14 Video

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Watts, Jordan
(University of Colorado Boulder)
Treating Limits as Colimits and Colimits as Limits … with Applications! 9/27/16 Video
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Will, Pierre

(Institut Fourier)

SL(3,C), SU(2,1) and the Whitehead link complement 3/14/19 Video(unavailable)

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Willis, George
(Newcastle)
Totally Disconnected, Locally Compact Groups 10/30/14 Video
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Wilson, Jenny
(Stanford University)
Stability in the homology of configuration spaces 11/13/17 Video
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Winarski, Rebecca
(University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
The twisted rabbit problem via the arc complex 8/29/17 Video(unavailable)
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Work, Grace
(Illinois)
Gap distribution for saddle connections on the octagon 10/28/14 Video
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Wright, Alex
(Stanford)
Dynamics, geometry, and the moduli space of Riemann surfaces 10/10/17 Video
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Xiao, Sunny

(Brown University)

Classifying incompressible surfaces in hyperbolic mapping tori 3/28/19 Video(unavailable)

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Yancey, Kelly
(Institute for Defense Analyses)
Self-Similar Interval Exchange Transformations 9/14/17 Video
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Yu, Haizi

(University of Illinois)

Geometry Group Theory in Music AI 4/9/19 Video(unavailable)

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Zhang, Xin

(Illinois)

Gap Distributions in Circle Packings 10/20/15 Video
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Zhang, Xin
(Illinois)
Pair correlation in Apollonian circle packings 9/21/17 Video(unavailable)
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Zharnitsky, Vadim

(Illinois)

Energy growth in discontinuous Hamiltonian systems 10/29/15 Video
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Zimmer, Andy
(University of Chicago)
Higher rank geometric structures 2/26/15 Video
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Zupan, Alex

(University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Generalized square knots and the 4-dimensional Poincare Conjecture 10/2/18 Video(unavailable)

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