2004-05
Date Speaker Title
5/13/05 M. White, Cal Poly More on Cat(K) spaces
5/6/05 A. Kaul, Cal Poly Cat(K) spaces II
4/29/05 A. Kaul, Cal Poly Cat(K) spaces I
4/22/05 M. White, Cal Poly Busemann Spaces II
4/15/05 M. White, Cal Poly Busemann Spaces I
4/8/05 Everyone Spring Quarter Organization Meeting
2/25/05 A. Kaul, Cal Poly Topological aspects of shellability
2/18/05 A. Mendes, Cal Poly Shellability of Posets II
1/27/05 A. Mendes, Cal Poly Shellability of Posets I
2005-06
Date Speaker Title
9/28/05 J. Girolo Extension Theorems for Cat(K) spaces
10/05/05 J. Girolo Extension Theorems for Cat(K) spaces II
10/12/05 K. Delp Flows, Foliations, and Seifert fibered spaces
10/19/05 K. Delp Flows, Foliations, and Seifert fibered spaces II
10/26/05 K. Delp Almost periodic flows on 3-manifolds
11/09/05 J. Borzellino Manifold Structures on Transformation Groups I
11/16/05 J. Borzellino Manifold Structures on Transformation Groups II
11/30/05 J. Borzellino Manifold Structures on Transformation Groups III
12/07/05 J. Borzellino A smooth diffeomorphism of S1 arbitrarily close to the identity that is not the time one map of a flow
1/11/06 M. White The Limit Length of a Finitely Presented Group
1/18/06 M. White The Limit Length of a Finitely Presented Group II
1/25/06 M. White The Limit Length of a Finitely Presented Group III
2/01/06 J. Alongi Circle Homeomorphisms
2/08/06 J. Alongi Circle Homeomorphisms II
2/15/06 J. Alongi Circle Homeomorphisms III
2/22/06 A. Kaul Decision Problems in Groups
3/1/06 A. Kaul Van Kampen diagrams and Dehn functions
3/8/06 A. Kaul Van Kampen diagrams and Dehn functions II
4/7/06 K. Delp Group actions on Trees I
4/14/06 K. Delp Postponed
4/21/06 K. Delp Group actions on Trees II
4/28/06 J. Borzellino Postponed
5/5/06 J. Borzellino Geodesics on Orbifolds of Revolution I
5/12/06 J. Borzellino Geodesics on Orbifolds of Revolution II
5/19/06 J. Borzellino The Geodesic Period Function and its Properties
2006-07
Date Speaker Title
10/20/06 Jack Girolo Embedding metric spaces into normed linear spaces
10/27/06 Joe Borzellino Filling Riemannian Manifolds and Systoles
11/3/06 Anton Kaul Products of Hyperbolic Metric Spaces I
12/8/06 Anton Kaul Products of Hyperbolic Metric Spaces II
1/19/07 Anton Kaul Products of Hyperbolic Metric Spaces III
1/26/07 Anton Kaul Products of Hyperbolic Metric Spaces IV
3/9/07 Joe Borzellino A Manifold Structure for the Group of Orbifold Diffeomorphisms
3/9/07 Anton Kaul Coxeter Groups
4/13/07 Anton Kaul Aspects of Serre's theorem
5/11/07 Joe Borzellino Introduction to Exotic Spheres I - Characterizations of Sn
5/18/07 Joe Borzellino Introduction to Exotic Spheres II - Smale's proof of the Poincaré Conjecture
6/1/07 Joe Borzellino Introduction to Exotic Spheres III - The Thom cobordism theorem and the Hirzebruch signature theorem
2008-09
Date Speaker Title
10/10/08 Jack Girolo A Generalization of the Circumcenter of a Set
10/17/08 Morgan Sherman An introduction to canonical metrics in Kähler geometry I
I10/24/08 Morgan Sherman An introduction to canonical metrics in Kähler geometry II
10/31/08 Vincent Bonini Hypersurfaces in Hyperbolic Space
11/7/08 Vincent Bonini Hyperbolic Gauss Map and Principal Curvature Radii
11/14/08 Vincent Bonini The Christoffel Problem in Hyperbolic Space
01/09/09 Joseph Borzellino A Manifold Structure for the Group of Orbifold Diffeomorphisms
01/30/09 Matthew White Some ways to use algebra and geometry against 3-Manifolds
02/06/09 Matthew White Some ways to use algebra and geometry against 3-Manifolds II
02/13/09 Matthew White Some ways to use algebra and geometry against 3-Manifolds III
02/27/09 Anton Kaul Introduction to Dehn functions
03/06/09 Anton Kaul Dehn functions and the word problem
03/13/09 Anton Kaul Dehn functions and Tietze transformations
04/03/09 Joseph Borzellino A Global View of Hydrodynamics I
04/10/09 Joseph Borzellino A Global View of Hydrodynamics II
05/08/09 Vincent Bonini Fundamentals of Hodge Theory
05/15/09 Vincent Bonini The Hodge Decomposition Theorem
2009-10
4/7/10 Vincent Bonini Intro to Riemannian Geometry I
4/14/10 Vincent Bonini Intro to Riemannian Geometry II
4/21/10 Joseph Borzellino Intro to Riemannian 2-manifolds
5/5/10 Joseph Borzellino Covariant Derivative and the Fundamental Theorem of Riemannian Geometry
5/12/10 Joseph Borzellino Parallel Transport, Geodesics and Holonomy
5/19/10 Joseph Borzellino The Gauss-Bonnet Theorem and Consequences
5/26/10 Matthew White Intro to Hyperbolic Geometry
6/2/10 Morgan Sherman Intro to Complex Geometry
2010-11
9/29/10 Vincent Bonini Review of Differential Geometry with an Eye Towards Minimal Surfaces
10/6/10 Richard Neufeld Minimal Surfaces via the Area Functional
10/13/10 Ryan Ward Minimal Surfaces Satisfying Certain Geometric Constraints
10/20/10 Vincent Bonini Weierstrass-Enneper Representation of Minimal Surfaces I
10/27/10 Vincent Bonini Weierstrass-Enneper Representation of Minimal Surfaces II
11/3/10 Joe Borzellino Geodesics I
11/10/10 Joe Borzellino Geodesics II
11/17/10 Joe Borzellino Geodesics III
4/6/11 Joe Borzellino Introduction to de Rham Cohomology I
4/13/11 Joe Borzellino Introduction to de Rham Cohomology II
4/20/11 Vince Bonini Differential Forms
4/27/11 Vince Bonini Differential Forms and de Rham Cohomology
5/4/11 Jack Girolo Chain Complexes and their Cohomology
5/11/11 Morgan Sherman The Mayer-Vietoris Sequence
5/18/11 Morgan Sherman Homotopy
5/25/11 Vince Bonini Applications of de Rham Cohomology I
6/1/11 Joe Borzellino Applications of de Rham Cohomology II