I am Professor in the
Mathematics Department
at the University of Maryland.
- Office: 3106 William E. Kirwan Hall, 4176 Campus Drive,
College Park, MD 20742-4015
- TEL: (301)-405-5124, FAX: (301)-314-0827
- EMAIL: wmg AT umd DOT edu
Recent and Upcoming activities:
- Meetings and Conferences before 2021.
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Colloquium talk,
Indian Institute of Science, Education and Resarch, Mohali,
12 February 2021
- Seminar talk,
Indian Institute of Science, Education and Resarch, Mohali,
Wednesday 17 February 2021
- Seminar talk, University of Heidelberg, Tuesday 23 February 2021
- Organizing Committee,
``Analysis and Geometry: A symposium in honor of the
70th birthday of Scott Wolpert", University of Maryland, 8 March
- Greater Washington Topology Seminar, George Washington University,
7 May 2021
- Colloquium, University of California, Santa Cruz, 25 May 2021
-
Computational Aspects of Discrete Subgroups of Lie groups,
ICERM, 14-18 June 2021.
Here are the slides from my talk,
and written version here.
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International Conference on Discrete Groups, Geometry and Arithmetic:
A virtual event in honour of M.S. Raghunathan's 80th birthday
9-11 August 2021.
- Seminar talk,
University of Maryland Dynamics Seminar,
2:00pm Thursday 7 October 2021
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Introductory talk "Dyanmics on Character Varieties" in
"Character Varieties, Dynamics and Arithmetic"
Seminar,
Institute for Advanced Study, Wednesday 10 November
and 17 November 2021,
Zoom link
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24 January 2022,
Members Colloquium,
School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study
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28 February 2022,
Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar
- 2 March 2022, Mathematical Conversations (IAS)
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Colloquium talk, Rutgers University, Newark,
27 April 2022
- I have been invited to give the
Burton Jones Distinguished Lectures
at the University of California, Riverside in May 11-14, 2022.
-
``Geometry, Groups and Mathematical Philosophy ---
An International Conference in Honor of Ravi S. Kulkarni's
80th Birthday", May 21-24, 2022
- Recent Administrative Activities:
- Member-At-Large of the Council of the
American Mathematical Society
and member of the Committee on Publications.
- Member, Scientific Advisory Board,
Brin Mathematics Research Center
at the University of Maryland.
- Administrative activities before 2015
- Network Executive Committee (and original co-PI, and director
of Maryland hub),
GEAR Network, an NSF Research Network in the Mathematical Sciences.
- Scientific Advisory Board (2020-2022),
Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics
(ICERM), Brown University.
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research papers
- Selected reviews
- Previous research students
Check out Evan Goldman's art
Recent draft of
Proper actions of discrete groups of affine transformations,
coauthored with Jeffrey Danciger, Todd Drumm and Ilia Smilga,
from the Margulis Festschrift,
``Dynamics, Geometry, Number Theory: The Impact of Margulis in Modern Mathematics," University of Chicago Press.
See also http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09520.
A preliminary draft of
``Flat Affine,Projective and Conformal Structures on Manifolds: A Historial Perspective"
a recent survey, from ``Geometries in History" (S. Dani and A. Papadopoulos, eds.
Springer 2019)
Last updated: Monday 9 May 2022