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Friday, February 14, 2020

3:00 pm in 347 Altgeld Hall,Friday, February 14, 2020

#### An Introduction to $L^2$ Cohomology

###### Gayana Jayasinghe (UIUC Math)

Abstract: We'll see how we can construct quasi isometry invariants and some conformal invariants with function spaces and operators on manifolds (and some more general spaces), and how we can use analysis to study geometric structures

4:00 pm in 341 Altgeld Hall,Friday, February 14, 2020

#### Prime Number Conjectures

###### Raghavendra Bhat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Abstract: Freshman math major and author (Math -- A Subtle Language of the Universe) Raghavendra Bhat will present some of his prime number conjectures, which he has presented on many platforms across the world. His talk will focus on his recent conjectures and thoughts on number theory research and math in general.

4:00 pm in 141 Altgeld Hall,Friday, February 14, 2020

#### Bounds on volumes of mapping tori

###### Heejoung Kim (UIUC)

Abstract: For a surface $S$ and a homeomorphism $f: S\to S$, the mapping torus of $S$ by $f$ is defined by $M_f=(S\times [0,1])/((x,0)\sim (f(x), 1))$. In particular, for a closed surface $S$ of genus at least 2 and a pseudo-Anosov element $f$ of the mapping class group of $S$, $M_f$ is a hyperbolic manifold. Brock provided bounds of the hyperbolic volume of $M_f$ from a hyperbolic structure on $M_f$ by using its Weil-Petersson metric. And then Agol gave a sharp upper bound for the volume in terms of the translation distance on the pants graph $P(S)$ which is associated with pants decomposition on $S$. In this talk, we will discuss mapping class groups and Agol's proof on the upper bound.