Christopher Cashen

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Spring 2007

Heegaard Splittings, the Virtually Haken Conjecture, and Property Tau

Monday 1-2 in SEO 512

References:
@unpublished{AbeNik07, Author = {Abert, Miklos and Nikolov, Nikolay}, Month = {January}, Note = {prepreint}, Title = {Rank Gradient, Cost of Groups and the Rank Versus Heegaard Genus Problem}, Url = {http://arXiv.org/pdf/math.GR/0701361}, Year = {2007}}

@article{BacCooWhi04, Author = {Bachman, David and Cooper, Daryl and White, Matthew E.}, Journal = {Algebraic & Geometric Topology}, Keywords = {Heegaard splitting, injectivity radius}, Pages = {31-47}, Title = {Large Embedded Balls and Heegaard Genus in Negative Curvature}, Url = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0305290}, Volume = {4}, Year = {2004}}

@unpublished{DooGol06, Author = {A.H. Dooley and V. Ya. Golodets}, Keywords = {equivalence relation, equivalence subrelation, finite index, cost,treeable action, free group}, Month = {September}, Note = {preprint}, Title = {The cost of an equivalence relation is determined by the cost of a finite index subrelation}, Year = {2006}}

@article{Lac05, Author = {Lackenby, Marc}, Journal = {Invent. Math.}, Month = {September}, Note = {preprint}, Pages = {317-359}, Title = {Heegaard Splittings, the Virtual Haken Conjecture and Property Tau}, Url = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/math.GT/0205327}, Volume = {164}, Year = {2006}}

@unpublished{LubZuk03, Author = {Alexander Lubotzky and Andrzej Zuk}, Month = {September}, Note = {Preliminary Version}, Title = {On Property Tau}, Url = {http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~alexlub/BOOKS/On%20property/On%20property.pdf}, Year = {2003}}

Summer 2006

Novikov-Shubin Invariants

Cancelled due to scheduling conflicts.

References:
@article{Efr90, Author = {A. V. Efremov}, Journal = {Communications of the Moscow Mathematical Society}, Title = {Cellular Decompositions and Novikov-Shubin Invariants}, Year = {1990}}

@unpublished{LotLuc, Author = {John Lott and Wolfgang Luck}, Title = {L2-Topological Invariants of 3-Manifolds}, Url = {http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~lott/invv.pdf}}

@article{Luc94, Author = {Wolfgang Luck}, Journal = {Topology}, Pages = {203-214}, Title = {L2-Betti Numbers of Mapping Tori and Groups}, Volume = {33}, Year = {1994}}

Spring 2006

Pot Luck

Prior to 2006

Older topics which I can remember, in no particular order:
The Smith Conjecture
Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces
PL-Minimal Surfaces
Hyperbolic Groups
Mostow Rigidity



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