Dear colleagues:

We announce the following seminar at IPMU
(the Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe).

Regards,

Satoshi Kondo (IPMU)

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Speaker:        Sergei Galkin (IPMU)
Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA
Date:   June 4, 2009, 10:30 - 12:00
Place:  Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
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Speaker: 	 Joseph Maher (visiting Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Title: 	Generic elements of the mapping class group.
Date: 	Jun 04, 2009, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: 	Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B
Abstract: 	The mapping class group of a surface is the group of all
maps from a surface to itself, and occurs naturally in a variety of
areas of mathematics. We discuss what it might mean for a group
element to be generic, and show that the irreducible elements of the
mapping class group are generic for certain definitions of generic.
This uses recent results on the large scale geometry of the mapping
class group, and has applications to 3-manifolds.
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You can check the location from
http://www.ipmu.jp/access/img/KashiwaCampusMap.png

The schedule of the seminar can be checked from
http://db.ipmu.jp/seminar/?mode=seminar_recent