Previous Conferences & Workshops

Oct
08
2015

Workshop on Geometric Structures on 3-manifolds

Hyperbolic 3-manifolds of bounded volume and trace field degree
Bogwang Jeon
11:30am|Simonyi Hall 101
In this talk, I present my proof of the conjecture that there are only a finite number of hyperbolic 3-manifolds of bounded volume and trace field degree.
Oct
06
2015

Workshop on Geometric Structures on 3-manifolds

Virtual domination of 3-manifolds
Hongbin Sun
4:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101
By constructing certain immersed $\pi_1$-injective 2-complexes in closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds, we show the following statement: For any closed oriented hyperbolic 3-manifold $M$, and any closed oriented 3-manifold $N$, $M$ admits a finite cover $M...
Oct
06
2015

Workshop on Geometric Structures on 3-manifolds

Differential geometry on the character variety
Julien Marché
2:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

We study the character variety of 3-manifolds groups into SL_2(C) and some natural structures on it like symplectic and volume forms.

We will relate these structures to the Kauffman module at order 1 with some applications to the asymptotics of...

Oct
06
2015

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Invariants of random knots
Chaim Even Zohar
10:30am|West Bldg. Lect. Hall

A knot is a closed curve embedded in the three-dimensional space, like a rope whose two ends are joined together. As usual in Topology, two knots are equivalent if one can be deformed into the other by continuous moves, where stretching and...