Reading Seminar on Automorphism Groups of Manifolds : Department of Mathematics and Statistics : UMass Amherst

Spring 2024

Date	Speaker	Title
Tue. 2/6		Organizational meeting
Tue. 2/13	Kevin Sackel	Thurston's work on surfaces
Tue. 2/20	Jie Min	Braid group and diffeomorphism of pair of pants
Tue. 2/27	Porter Morgan	Crash course on hyperbolic geometry in dimension two
Tue. 3/12	Inanc Baykur	Space of curves on a surface
Tue. 3/19	Mihail Arabadji	Measured foliations
Tue. 4/2	Mihail Arabadji	Measured foliations (part 2)
Tue. 4/9	Kevin Sackel	The Classification of Measured Foliations
Tue. 4/16	Marina Ville Université de Tours	Branched surfaces in 4-manifolds
Tue. 4/23	Takuto Sato	Teichmuller Space
Tue. 4/30	Kerem Inal	The Thurston’s Compactification of Teichmüller space (Unusual time!)

Fall 2023

Date	Speaker	Title
Tue. 9/19	Organizational meeting	Organizational meeting
Tue. 9/26	Mihail Arabadji	Dehn twists
Tue. 10/3	Jie Min	Dehn twists and symplectic mapping class groups
Tue. 10/17	Kevin Sackel	Contact manifolds and automorphisms
Tue. 10/24	Mihail Arabadji	Nielsen Realization
Tue. 11/7	Porter Morgan	Extendable diffeomorphisms in the 4-sphere
Tue. 11/14	Weimin Chen	Finite group actions in dimension 4
Tue. 11/21	Miriam Kuzbary	Mapping class groups of 3-manifolds
Tue. 11/28	Kerem Inal	Torelli group in dimension two

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