Metric Geometry, Geometric Topology and Groups
Videos from BIRS Workshop
Matthew Kahle, The Ohio State University
Monday Aug 5, 2013 09:04 - 09:50
Recent progress on random groups
Yevgeny Liokumovich, University of Toronto
Monday Aug 5, 2013 09:56 - 10:42
Slicing of Riemannian 2-surfaces by short curves
Mohammad Ghomi, Georgia Institute of Technology
Monday Aug 5, 2013 10:58 - 11:47
Affine unfoldings of convex polyhedra
Tullia Dymarz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Monday Aug 5, 2013 15:18 - 16:00
Quasisymmetric vs Bi-Lipschitz maps
Fedor Manin, University of Chicago
Monday Aug 5, 2013 16:09 - 16:57
Algebraic versus geometric complexity in homotopy groups
Alexander Dranishnikov, University of Florida
Monday Aug 5, 2013 17:03 - 17:44
Scalar curvature, macroscopic dimension and inessential manifolds
Dmitry Jakobson, McGill University
Monday Aug 5, 2013 19:35 - 20:22
Gaussian measures no spaces of metrics
Herman Gluck, University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday Aug 6, 2013 09:07 - 09:49
Lipschitz minimality of group multiplication on the three-sphere
Greg Chambers, University of Toronto
Tuesday Aug 6, 2013 09:56 - 10:48
Optimal homotopies of curves on surfaces
Robert Young, University of Toronto
Tuesday Aug 6, 2013 11:07 - 11:50
Filling multiples of embedded curves
Florent Balacheff, Unversite de Lille 1
Tuesday Aug 6, 2013 13:35 - 14:20
Isosystolic inequalities for optical hypersurfaces
Regina Rotman, University of Toronto
Tuesday Aug 6, 2013 14:30 - 15:16
Short geodesic segments on closed Riemannian manifolds
Burkhard Wilking, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität
Tuesday Aug 6, 2013 16:36 - 17:18
A generalization of Gromov almost flat manifold theorem
Anton Petrunin, Pennsylvania State University
Tuesday Aug 6, 2013 17:28 - 18:02
Telescopic actions (joint work with D. Panov)
Assaf Naor, Princeton University
Wednesday Aug 7, 2013 09:05 - 09:57
Superexpanders
Igor Belegradek, Georgia Tech
Thursday Aug 8, 2013 09:05 - 09:46
Topology of open nonpositively curved manifolds
Grigori Avramidi, University of Chicago
Thursday Aug 8, 2013 09:55 - 10:35
Ends of negatively curved manifolds
Ursula Hamenstaedt, Universität Bonn
Thursday Aug 8, 2013 10:59 - 11:37
Surface bundles over surfaces do not admit real hyperbolic metrics
Stephane Sabourau, Universite Paris-Est Creteil
Thursday Aug 8, 2013 13:36 - 14:21
Growth of quotients of isometry groups
Michael Yampolsky, University of Toronto
Thursday Aug 8, 2013 14:31 - 15:16
Geometrization of branched coverings of the sphere and decidability of Thurston equivalence
John Roe, Penn State University
Thursday Aug 8, 2013 15:35 - 16:15
Ghostbusting and property A
Egor Shelukhin, Universite de Montreal
Thursday Aug 8, 2013 17:15 - 17:55
Braids and Lp-norms of area-preserving diffeomorphisms
