Seminar

Geometry & Topology Seminar Speaker:  Alex Margolis (Technion) Topic:   Quasi-isometric rigidity of groups containing almost normal subgroups Place:    room 614 in the Science & Education Building Time   12:10 Date:  Thursday, March 7, 2019   Abstract: A goal of geometric group theory is to…
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Geometry & Topology Seminar Speaker:  Shachar Carmeli  (The Weizmann Institute of Science) Topic:  Etale Obstructions to Rational Points on Arithmetic Spheres Place:    room 614 in the Science & Education Building Time   12:10 Date:  Thursday, February 28, 2019                                                    Abstract: Etale homotopy theory attaches to every…
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Geometry & Topology Seminar Speaker:  Azez Kharoof (University of Haifa) Topic:  Higher order Toda brackets Place:    room 614 in the Science & Education Building Time   12:10 Date:  Thursday, January 17, 2019                                                    Abstract: After reviewing the construction and properties of the classical Toda bracket, we…
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Geometry & Topology Seminar Speaker:  Misha Polyak (Technion) Topic: Enumerative geometry and Lie (super)algebras Place:    room 614 in the Science & Education Building Time   12:10 Date:  Monday, January 14, 2019                                                    Abstract: One of the classical enumerative problems in algebraic geometry is that of counting of…
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Geometry & Topology Seminar Speaker:  Ivan Levcovitz (Technion) Topic: Coarse geometry of right-angled Coxeter groups Place:    room 614 in the Science & Education Building Time   12:10 Date:  Monday, January 7, 2019                                                    Abstract: A main goal of geometric group theory is to understand finitely…
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Geometry & Topology Seminar Speaker:  Boris Chorny (University of Haifa) Topic: Recognition of mapping algebras and representability theorems, up to homotopy Place:    room 614 in the Science & Education Building Time   12:10 Date:  Thursday, January 3, 2019                                                    Abstract: A mapping algebra is a space…
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Geometry & Topology Seminar Speaker:  Vladimir Hinich (University of Haifa) Topic: So, what is a derived functor? Place:    room 614 in the Science & Education Building Time   12:10 Date:  Thursday, December 27, 2018                                                    Abstract: In the context of infinity categories, we rethink the notion…
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Geometry & Topology Seminar Speaker:  Lior Yanovski (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Topic: Higher semi-additivity and chromatic homotopy theory Place:    room 614 in the Science & Education Building Time   12:10 Date:  Monday, November 20, 2018                                                    Abstract: In ordinary algebra, characteristic zero behaves…
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   Geometry & Topology Seminar Speaker:  Chandrika Sadanand (Technion) Topic: You can hear the shape of a polygonal billiard table Place:    room 614 in the Science & Education Building Time   12:10 Date:  Monday, December 3, 2018                                                    Abstract: Consider a polygon-shaped billiard table on which a ball can…
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Geometry & Topology Seminar Speaker:  Daniel Woodhouse(Technion) Topic:  Residually finite tubular groups Place:    room 614 in the Science & Education Building Time   12:10 Date:  Monday, November 19, 2018                                                    Abstract: I will present recent joint work with Nima Hoda and Dani Wise. In…
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