Time and Place

• Time: Wednesdays 3:00p.m.--3:50p.m.
• Place: 216 Milner Hall

Full schedule

• 8th of September, 2004
  Speaker: Gilles Pisier of Texas A&M University
  Title: Characterization of amenable C*-algebras by their similarity degree. Abstract.
• 15th of September, 2004
  Speaker: Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein of Universitá del Sannio, Benevento, Italy
  Title: Finite Gel'fand pairs: (new) examples and applications. Abstract.
• 22nd of September, 2004
  Speaker: Alexander Fel'shtyn of Univerität Siegen, Germany
  Title: Dynamical zeta functions and Nielsen-Reidemeister theory. Abstract.
• 6th of October, 2004
  Speaker: Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein of Universitá del Sannio, Benevento, Italy
  Title: Amenability and paradoxical decompositions: Tarski's alternative theorem. Abstract.
  
• 13th of October, 2004
  Speaker: Indira Chatterji of Cornell Univeristy
  Title: Some groups acting on CAT(0) cube complexes. Abstract.
• 20th of October, 2004
  Speaker: Nikita Karpenko of Université d'Artois, Lens, France and Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton
  Title: Some conjectures on quadratic forms proved by Steenrod operations. Abstract.
• 27th of October, 2004
  Speaker: Radoslav Dimitrić of Texas A&M University at Galveston
  Title: The idea of slenderness. Abstract.
• 3rd of November, 2004
  Speaker: Sarah Witherspoon of Texas A&M University
  Title: Reflection groups and graded Hecke algebras. Abstract.
• 6th of November, 2004, Saturday, 10:00 - 4:00
  Fall Workshop 1: Asymptotic group invariants and their applications. Schedule and abstracts.
• 10th of November, 2004
  Speaker: Filippo Tolli of Universitá di Roma Tre, Italy
  Title: Asymptotic behavior of convolution powers on semisimple groups. Abstract.
• 17th of November, 2004
  Speaker: Alexander Fel'shtyn of Univerität Siegen, Germany
  Title: Reidemeister torsion and dynamical zeta functions. Abstract.
• 1st of December, 2004
  Speaker: Henry Schenck of Texas A&M University
  Title: Fundamental group of hyperplane arangement complements. Abstract.
• 8th of December, 2004, Wednesday, 10:00 - 4:30
  Fall Workshop 2: Asymptotic group invariants and their applications. Schedule and abstracts.