# Geometry & Topology Seminar 2014

 Wednesday 3 December, 10:00–11:00 Mihai Tibar (Lille 1) Fibrations of polynomial functions and singularities at infinity Wednesday 3 December, 11:00–12:00 Jonathan Spreer (Queensland) Triangulations of the K3 surface Wednesday 19 November in the AGR Neil Hoffman (Melbourne) Verified canonical triangulations of hyperbolic 3-manifolds Wednesday 29 October Sasha Fish (Sydney) Ergodic theorems for amenable groups Wednesday 22 October Adam Piggott (Bucknell) The Bieri-Neumann-Strebel Invariant of the Pure Symmetric Automorphisms of a Right-Angled Artin Group Wednesday 15 October Jonathan Hillman (Sydney) Sections of Surface Bundles Wednesday 8 October Pep Burillo (Catalunya) The growth rate for Baumslag-Solitar groups: Metric estimates and lower bounds Wednesday 1 October Mid-semester break Wednesday 24 September Murray Elder (Newcastle) The complexity of solutions to equations in free groups Wednesday 17 September Satoshi Koike (Hyogo) Finiteness on semialgebraic types of Nash mappings defined on a Nash surface Wednesday 10 September James Parkinson (Sydney) A Multiplicative Ergodic Theorem for p-adic Lie groups Wednesday 3 September Alan McCarthy (UNSW) Flat Tori of Finite Type in $$S^3$$ Wednesday 27 August Emma Carberry (Sydney) Toroidal Soap Bubbles: Constant Mean Curvature Tori in $$S^3$$ and $$R^3$$ Wednesday 20 August Tony Bahri (Rider) Recent results about polyhedral products and toric spaces Wednesday 13 August Peter Abramenko (Virginia) On finite and elementary generation of $$SL_2(R)$$ Wednesday 6 August Anne Thomas (Glasgow) Quasi-isometry and commensurability for right-angled Coxeter groups Wednesday 30 July Joseph Maher (CUNY) The Casson invariants of random Heegaard splittings