Geometry/Topology at Michigan State University
 

 MSU - UM Spring Graduate Student Geometry/Topology Conference

Saturday, March 31 -- All talks in A304 Wells Hall on MSU Campus

 
9:30 - 10:00, A204 Wells Hall: Coffee - Bagels
 
10:30 - 10:40 - Oh Hoon Kwon, MSU, 'Applications of positive curvature and a Synge type theorem'
10:50 - 11:30 - Aaron Magid, UM, 'The deformation space of a hyperbolic 3-manifold'
 
11:40 - 12:20 - Chris Cornwell, MSU, 'Spanning trees and Khovanov homology'
 
12:20 - 2:00 - Lunch
 
2:10 - 2:50 - Dave Constantine, UM, 'Consequences of ergodic frame flow for rank rigidity in negative curvature'
 
3:00 - 3:40 - Inanc Baykur, MSU, 'Exotica on small 4-manifolds'
3:50 - 4:30 - Johanna Mangahas, UM, '(The cartoon story of) Why the mapping class group is finitely generated by Dehn twists'
4:40 - 5:20 - Andrew Cooper, MSU, 'Scalar curvature and the Seiberg-Witten equations'
 
5:30 - 6:10 - Onur Agirseven, MSU, 'Matsumoto's presentation of the mapping class group'
 
6:30 - Dinner