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 We meet **Thursdays** at **2:45--3:45 pm** in **Whitney Hall 100E**. This semester's organizers are James Hyde and Lorenzo Ruffoni. The seminar has an announcement [[https://groups.google.com/a/binghamton.edu/g/topsem|mailing list]] open to all. We meet **Thursdays** at **2:45--3:45 pm** in **Whitney Hall 100E**. This semester's organizers are James Hyde and Lorenzo Ruffoni. The seminar has an announcement [[https://groups.google.com/a/binghamton.edu/g/topsem|mailing list]] open to all.
  
-Topics include: geometric group theory, differential geometry and topology, low-dimensional topology, algebraic topology, and homotopy theory.+Topics include: geometric group theory, differential geometry and topology, low-dimensional topology, algebraic topology, and homotopy theory. 
  
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-  * **January 29h** \\ Speaker: ** Juliet Aygun (Cornell) ** \\ Title: **Counting geodesics on prime-order k-differentials ** <WRAP box>// Abstract: //  +=====Fall 2026=====
-It has been of popular interest over the last several decades to count geodesics with respect to their length on flat surfaces. Asymptotics of these counting functions for generic translation surfaces, which are Riemann surfaces with a holomorphic one form, have been determined by the pioneering work of Eskin-Masur-Zorich. There is a more general type of flat surface called a (1/k)-translation surface, which is a Riemann surface with a k-differential. Equivalently, a (1/k)-translation surface is a collection of polygons in the complex plane with sides identified pairwise by translation and possible rotations of 2pi/k. In this talk, we will discuss asymptotics of these counting functions on generic (1/k)-translation surfaces when k is prime and genus is more than two. The main tools I will discuss are GL+(2,R)-orbit closures and a result of Eskin-Mirzakhani-Mohammadi which relates asymptotics to GL+(2,R)-orbit closures.  \\ </WRAP> +
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-  * **February 5th** \\ Speaker: ** Barry Minemyer (Commonwealth University - Bloomsburg) ** \\ Title: ** Negatively Curved Metrics on Complex Hyperbolic Branched Covers ** <WRAP box>// Abstract: // Gromov and Thurston used hyperbolic branched cover manifolds to construct the first known examples of compact manifolds which admit a pinched negatively curved metric, but do not admit a hyperbolic metric.  Fine and Premoselli (n=4) and Hamenstadt and Jackel (n > 4) later used these same manifolds to construct the first known examples of negatively curved Einstein metrics (in these respective dimensions) that are not locally symmetric.   +
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-Recently, Stover and Toledo proved that analogous complex hyperbolic branched cover manifolds exist.  They also proved that these manifolds do not admit a locally symmetric metric, and a result of Zheng shows that these manifolds are Kahler.  In this talk I will present recent work proving the existence of pinched negatively curved metrics, as well as the existence of negatively curved Kahler-Einstein metrics (due to Guenancia and Hamenstadt) on these complex hyperbolic branched cover manifolds.  Part of my presented work is joint with Lafont.    \\ </WRAP> +
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-  * **February 12th** \\ Speaker: **  ** \\ Title: **  ** <WRAP box>// Abstract: //   \\ </WRAP> +
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-  * **February 19th** \\ Speaker: ** Satya Howladar (University of Florida) ** \\ Title: ** Gromov’s Conjecture for Product of Baumslag-Solitar Groups and some other One relator groups ** <WRAP box>// Abstract: //  Gromov introduced macroscopic dimension of metric spaces in order to study large scale properties of manifolds. He conjectured that a closed $n$-manifold which admits Positive Scaler Curvature metric, should have its universal cover to be of macroscopic dimension at most $n-2$, with respect to the pull back metric on it. This conjecture depends a lot on the fundamental group of the base manifold. For $n>4$, closed spin $n$-manifolds $M$, we developed sufficient condition on $\pi_1(M)$, to verify the conjecture. When $\pi_1(M)$ is product of $2$-dimensional groups (i.e. groups with classifying space a $2$-dimensional CW complex), $\mathbb Z_2$-summands in their homology creates a problem for application of our technique. We could resolve this in the case of certain one-relator groups, including Baumslag-Solitar, and certain others, by passing to some finite index subgroup of them not admitting $\mathbb Z_2$-torsion in homology. This is done by the well-known technique of Fox calculus, to analyze boundary maps of cells of finite index covers. I will try to revisit this technique and sketch a proof our result. \\ </WRAP> +
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-  * **February 26th** \\ Speaker: ** Lucas Williams (Binghamton University) ** \\ Title: ** TBA ** <WRAP box>// Abstract: //   \\ </WRAP> +
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-  * **March 5th** \\ Speaker: ** Oliver Wang (University of Virginia) ** \\ Title: **  ** <WRAP box>// Abstract: //   \\ </WRAP> +
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-  * **March 12th** \\ Speaker: ** Sofia Martinez (Bryn Mawr College) ** \\ Title: **  ** <WRAP box>// Abstract: //   \\ </WRAP>+
    
-  * **March 19th** \\ Speaker: ** Francesco Lin (Columbia) ** \\ Title: **  ** <WRAP box>// Abstract: //   \\ </WRAP>+  * **8/20/2026** \\ Speaker: ** Yu-Chan Chang (Ohio State) ** \\ Title: **Dehn Functions of Bestvina--Brady Groups** <WRAP box> //Abstract:// Dehn functions are quasi-isometry invariants of finitely presented groups that measure the complexity of the word problem and capture geometric properties of groups. For example, hyperbolic groups are characterized by having linear Dehn function. Subgroups can have larger Dehn functions than their ambient groups. For instance, CAT(0) groups have at most quadratic Dehn function, but their subgroups can have polynomial Dehn functions of arbitrary degree. In this talk, I will review some results on Dehn functions and then present a complete classification of the Dehn functions of Bestvina--Brady groups. This is joint work with Jeronimo Garcia-Mejia and Matteo Migliorini.  \\ </WRAP>
  
-  * **March 26th** \\ Speaker: ** ** \\ Title: **  ** <WRAP box>// Abstract: //   \\ </WRAP>+  * **10/15/2026** \\ no seminar (Fall break) \\ 
  
-  * **April 2nd**   <WRAP box>//  // (Spring break - no seminar)  \\ </WRAP>+  * **10/22/2026** \\ Speaker: ** Meenakshy Jyothis (University of Oklahoma) ** \\ Title: **TBA** <WRAP box>// Abstract: //  
 +TBA\\ </WRAP>
  
-  * **April 9th** \\ Speaker: **Sanjana Agarwal (Indiana University, Bloomington) ** \\ Title: **  ** <WRAP box>// Abstract: //  \\ </WRAP>+  * **11/26/2026** \\ no seminar (Thanksgiving) \\ 
  
-  * **April 16th** \\ Speaker: **Josefien Kuijper (University of Toronto)** \\ Title: **  ** <WRAP box>// Abstract: //  \\ </WRAP> 
  
-  * **April 23th** \\ Speaker: ** ** \\ Title: **  ** <WRAP box>// Abstract: //  \\ </WRAP>+-----
  
-  * **April 30th** \\ Speaker: ** Urshita Pal (University of Michigan) ** \\ Title: **  ** <WRAP box>// Abstract: //  \\ </WRAP>+=====Past Semesters=====
  
 +[[seminars:topsem:topsem_spring2026|Spring 2026]] | [[seminars:topsem:topsem_fall2025|Fall 2025]] | [[seminars:topsem:topsem_spring2025|Spring 2025]] | [[seminars:topsem:topsem_fall2024|Fall 2024]] | [[seminars:topsem:topsem_spring2024|Spring 2024]] | [[seminars:topsem:topsem_fall2023|Fall 2023]] | [[seminars:topsem:topsem_spring2023|Spring 2023]] | [[seminars:topsem:topsem_fall2022|Fall 2022]] | [[seminars:topsem:topsem_spring2022|Spring 2022]] | [[seminars:topsem:topsem_fall2021|Fall 2021]] | [[seminars:topsem:topsem_spring2021|Spring 2021]] | [[seminars:topsem:topsem_fall2020|Fall 2020]] | [[seminars:topsem:topsem_spring2020|Spring 2020]] | [[seminars:topsem:topsem_fall2019|Fall 2019]] | [[seminars:topsem:topsem_spring2019|Spring 2019]] | [[seminars:topsem:topsem_fall2018|Fall 2018]] | [[seminars:topsem:topsem_spring2018|Spring 2018]] | [[seminars:topsem:topsem_fall2017|Fall 2017]] | [[seminars:topsem:topsem_spring2017|Spring 2017]] | [[seminars:topsem:topsem_f16|Fall 2016]] | [[seminars:topsem:topsem_s16|Spring-Summer 2016]] | [[seminars:topsem:topsem_f15|Fall 2015]] | [[seminars:topsem:topsem_s15|Spring 2015]] | [[seminars:topsem:topsem_f14|Fall 2014]] 
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