Curriculum Vitae for Danny Calegari

Contents

• Education
• Research Interests
• Teaching/Research Experience
• Fellowships/Awards/Grants
• PhD students supervised
• Papers and Preprints
• Books
• Other relevant activities and skills
• References
• Invited Talks

Education

• May 2000: PhD from UC Berkeley
• December 1994: BA degree with honors at the University of Melbourne

Research Interests

• Geometry, Dynamics and Topology in low dimensions
• Geometric group theory

Teaching/Research Experience

Academic Positions

• 2007-: Richard Merkin Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at California Institute of Technology
• 2006-2007: Professor at California Institute of Technology
• 2003-2006: Associate Professor at California Institute of Technology
• 2002: Assistant Professor at California Institute of Technology
• 2000-2002: Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor at Harvard

Visiting Positions

• 2007 April-September: Visiting Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology
• 2000 May-June: Visiting researcher at UC Davis
• 2000 January-February: Consultant for Microsoft Research
• 1996-1997: Student member at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
• 1995 January-February: Research assistant at the University of Melbourne
• 1994 January-February: Research assistant at the University of Melbourne
• 1990 January: Research assistant at Comalco Research Laboratories

Fellowships/Awards/Grants

• 2009-2010: Clay Lecturer
• 2009: Clay Research Award, and Scholarship
• 2007-2010: NSF grant DMS 0707130
• 2004-2007: NSF grant DMS 0405491 (joint with N. Dunfield)
• 2003-2005: Sloan Research Fellow
• 2001: Awarded NSF Postdoctoral fellowship in mathematics (declined)
• 2000-2002: NSF-VIGRE grant recipient
• 2000: Clay Mathematical Institute Liftoff summer fellowship recipient
• 2000: Awarded NSF Postdoctoral fellowship in mathematics (declined)
• 1999-2000: Alfred P. Sloan dissertation fellowship in mathematics
• 1996-1999: NSF graduate fellowship in mathematics
• 1995-1996: Mary Stella Langford traveling fellowship
• 1995: A.O.Capell Scholarship
• 1994: Wyselaskie Scholarship and Nansen and Wilson prizes
• 1992: Winner of The Age Short Story Award
• 1991: Francis Frewin academic Scholarship

PhD students supervised

• 2006: Thomas Mack, Quasiconvex subgroups and nets in hyperbolic groups
• 2007: Roberto Pelayo, Diameter bounds on the complex of minimal genus Seifert surfaces for hyperbolic knots
• 2008: Rupert Venzke, Braid forcing, hyperbolic geometry, and pseudo-Anosov sequences of low entropy
• 2009: Dongping Zhuang, A geometric study of commutator subgroups

Papers, published and in preparation

1. Strong geometric isolation in 3-orbifolds.
   Bull. Austral. Math. Soc. 53 (1996), no. 2, 271-280
2. R-covered foliations of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
   Geom. Topol. 3 (1999), 137-153
3. Foliations transverse to triangulations of 3-manifolds.
   Comm. Anal. Geom. 8 (2000), no. 1, 133-158
4. A degree one Borsuk-Ulam theorem.
   Bull. Austral. Math. Soc. 61 (2000), no. 2, 267-268
5. Geometry and topology of R-covered foliations.
   Electr. Res. Announc. Amer. math. Soc. 6 (2000), 31-39
6. The Gromov norm and foliations.
   Geom. Func. Anal. 10 (2000), no. 6, 1423-1447
7. The geometry of R-covered foliations.
   Geom. Topol. 4 (2000), 457-515
8. Napoleon in isolation.
   Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129 (2001), no. 10, 3109-3119
9. Leafwise smoothing laminations.
   Algebr. Geom. Topol. 1 (2001), 579-585
10. Almost continuous extension for taut foliations.
    Math. Res. Lett. 8 (2001), no. 5-6, 637-640
11. Distortion of leaves in product foliations.
    Top. Appl. 124 (2002), no. 2, 205-209
12. with N. Dunfield - Commensurability of 1-cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
    Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 354 (2002), no. 7, 2955-2969
13. Every orientable 3-manifold is a B&Gamma.
    Algebr. Geom. Topol. 2 (2002), 433-447
14. Problems in foliations and laminations of 3-manifolds.
    Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 74 (2003), 297-335
15. Foliations with one-sided branching.
    Geom. Dedicata 96 (2003), 1-53
16. with N. Dunfield - Laminations and groups of homeomorphisms of the circle.
    Invent. Math. 152 (2003), no. 1, 149-204
17. Circular groups, planar groups, and the Euler class.
    Geom. Topol. Mon. 7 (2004), 431-491
18. Dynamical forcing of circular groups.
    Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 358 (2006), no. 8, 3473-3491
19. with D. Gabai - Shrinkwrapping and the taming of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
    Jour. Amer. Math. Soc. 19 (2006), no. 2, 385-446
20. with M. Freedman, and an appendix by Y. de Cornulier - Distortion in transformation groups.
    Geom. Topol. 10 (2006), 267-293
21. Real places and torus bundles.
    Geom. Dedicata 118 (2006), no. 1, 209-227
22. with N. Dunfield - An ascending HNN extension of a free group in SL(2,C).
    Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 134 (2006), no. 11, 3131-3136
23. Promoting essential laminations.
    Invent. Math. 166 (2006), no. 3, 583-643
24. Universal circles for quasigeodesic flows.
    Geom. Topol. 10 (2006), 2271-2298
25. Denominator bounds in Thompson-like groups and flows.
    Groups, Geom., Dyn. 1 (2007) no. 2, 101-109
26. Stable commutator length in subgroups of PL(I).
    Pac. J. Math. 232 (2007) no. 3, 257-262
27. 3-manifold positivity and the topological Cauchy-Schwarz inequality.
    Proc. Conf. Osaka City Univ. (2007), 65-70
28. Length and stable length.
    Geom. Func. Anal. 18 (2008), no. 1, 50-76
29. Word length in surface groups with characteristic generating sets.
    Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 136 (2008), no. 7, 2631-2637
30. Nonsmoothable, locally indicable group actions on the interval.
    Algebr. Geom. Topol. 8 (2008), no. 1, 609-613
31. Surface subgroups from homology.
    Geom. Topol. 12 (2008), 1995-2007
32. What is . . . stable commutator length?
    Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (2008), no. 9, 1100-1101
33. with D. Zhuang - Large scale geometry of commutator subgroups.
    Algebr. Geom. Topol. 8 (2008), no. 3, 2131-2146
34. Faces of the scl norm ball.
    Geom. Topol. 13 (2009), no. 3, 1313-1336
35. Stable commutator length is rational in free groups.
    Jour. Amer. Math. Soc. 22 (2009), no. 4, 941-961
36. with M. Freedman and K. Walker - Positivity of the universal pairing in 3 dimensions.
    Jour. Amer. Math. Soc. to appear
37. The Euler class of planar groups.
    Contemp. Math. to appear
38. with K. Fujiwara - Stable commutator length in word-hyperbolic groups.
    Groups, Geom., Dyn. to appear
39. with K. Fujiwara - Combable functions, quasimorphisms, and the central limit theorem.
    Ergodic Theory Dyn. Systems to appear
40. Scl, sails and surgery.
    submitted preprint
41. with C. Gordon - Knots with small rational genus.
    in preparation
42. Hyperbolic 3-manifolds, tameness, and Ahlfors' measure conjecture.
    lecture notes from a minicourse at the IUM

Books

1. Foliations and the Geometry of 3-Manifolds.
   Oxford Mathematical Monographs, approx. 360pp; Published May 2007
2. scl.
   MSJ Memoirs, approx. 220pp; Published June 2009

Other relevant activities and skills

Conferences organized

• 2003 Southern California Topology Conference
• 2004 Southern California Topology Conference
• Complexofcurvesfest (2005)
• 2007 Southern California Topology Conference
• 2009 Southern California Topology Conference
• Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, AMS meeting at UNM (2010)

Service

• Editorial board of
  • Geometry and Topology
  • Journal of Topology and Analysis
• Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews, NSF grant proposals, Georgian-U.S. BGP
• Referee for
  • Advances in Geometry
  • Algebraic and Geometric Topology
  • American Journal of Mathematics
  • Annals of Mathematics
  • Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici
  • Communications in Analysis and Geometry
  • Experimental Mathematics
  • Geometry and Topology
  • Inventiones Mathematicae
  • Journal of the AMS
  • Journal of the LMS
  • Journal of Differential Geometry
  • Knot Theory and its Ramifications
  • Mathematichen Annalen
  • Mathematische Zeitschrift
  • Pacific Journal of Mathematics
  • Topology
  • Transactions of the AMS
  • Transformation groups
  • University of Chicago Monograph series

Miscellaneous

• Blog Geometry and the Imagination
• Wrote program scallop for computing stable commutator length in free groups
• Good knowledge of C++, LaTeX, HTML, and fundamentals of UNIX and Linux

References

Andrew J. Casson Department of Mathematics Yale University 10 Hillhouse Ave New Haven, CT 06520 andrew.casson@math.yale.edu	David Gabai Department of Mathematics Princeton University Fine Hall, Washington Road Princeton, NJ 08544 gabai@princeton.edu
Curtis T. McMullen Department of Mathematics Harvard University 1 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 ctm@math.harvard.edu	Clifford H. Taubes Department of Mathematics Harvard University 1 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 chtaubes@math.harvard.edu
Michael H. Freedman Theory Group Microsoft Research One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 michaelf@microsoft.edu	William P. Thurston Department of Mathematics Cornell University 310 Malott Hall Ithaca, NY 14853-4201 wpt@math.cornell.edu

Invited Talks

1. Berkeley Topology seminar, October 22 1997;
   Title: Foliations and normal surfaces
2. Berkeley Topology seminar, April 8 1998;
   Title: The geometry of R-covered foliations
3. Berkeley Topology seminar, September 2 1998;
   Title: Non-uniform R-covered foliations of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
4. UC Santa Barbara Topology seminar, September 29 1998;
   Title: Non-uniform R-covered foliations of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
5. Stanford Topology seminar, October 30 1998;
   Title: Non-uniform R-covered foliations of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
6. UC Davis Topology seminar, November 4 1998;
   Title: Non-uniform R-covered foliations of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
7. University of Melbourne Topology seminar, December 2 1998;
   Title: Perturbing non-smooth taut foliations to tight contact structures
8. Short course at the University of Melbourne, December 7-11 1998;
   Title: Foliations and 3-manifolds
9. University of Melbourne Topology seminar, January 14 1999;
   Title: Constructing laminations transverse to taut foliations (after Thurston)
10. Berkeley Topology seminar, February 24 1999;
    Title: The geometry of R-covered foliations II
11. Berkeley Geometric group theory seminar, April 2 1999;
    Title: Laminations and almost-periodic tilings
12. Georgia Topology conference, May 12-16 1999;
    Title: Foliations and global product structures on 3-manifolds
    
13. AMS international conference at Denton Texas, May 19-22 1999;
    Title: Foliations and global product structures on 3-manifolds
    
14. AMS international conference at Melbourne Australia, July 12-16 1999;
    Title: Foliations and global product structures on 3-manifolds
    
15. Microsoft research group seminar, September 8 1999;
    Title: Foliated norms, branching and deformation
    
16. Berkeley Geometric group theory seminar, September 14 1999;
    Title: Foliated Gromov norms and deformation
    
17. Berkeley Topology seminar, September 29 1999;
    Title: Napoleon in isolation
    
18. AMS conference at Austin Texas, October 8-10 1999;
    Title: Foliations and group actions on the circle and on R
    
19. Caltech Topology seminar, November 2 1999;
    Title: Topology and geometry of R-covered foliations I
    Title: Topology and geometry of R-covered foliations II
    
20. Ann Arbor Topology seminar, November 30 1999;
    Title: A Gromov norm for foliated manifolds
    
21. U Chicago Geometry/Topology seminar, December 2 1999;
    Title: Taut foliations (are?) transverse to product structures
    
22. Wasatch Topology conference, December 16-18 1999;
    Title: Foliations and group actions on the circle
    Title: A Gromov norm for foliated manifolds
    
23. Brown University special seminar, January 29 2000;
    Title: Product structures transverse to taut foliations
    
24. Texas Geometry and Topology Conference, February 25-27 2000;
    Title: Taut foliations with one-sided branching
    
25. AMS conference at UC Santa Barbara, March 11-12 2000;
    Title: Taut foliations with one-sided branching
    
26. SUNY Stony Brook, Geometry-Topology seminar, March 28 2000;
    Title: Intrinsic and extrinsic geometry of taut foliations I
    
27. SUNY Stony Brook, Complex Analysis and Geometry seminar, March 29 2000;
    Title: Intrinsic and extrinsic geometry of taut foliations II
    
28. Berkeley Topology seminar, April 26 2000;
    Title: Foliations and circles
    
29. UC Santa Barbara Topology seminar, May 9 2000;
    Title: Useful branched surfaces which carry nothing
    
30. Plenary talk at Foliations: Geometry and Dynamics, Stefan Banach Center, Warsaw, May 29-June 9 2000;
    Title: Foliations, circles and hyperbolic geometry
    
31. Lecture series at Tokyo Institute of Technology, September 1-10 2000;
    Title: Introduction - Foliations and arboreal topology
    Title: Foliations and pseudo-Anosov packages I
    Title: Foliations and pseudo-Anosov packages II
    Title: Gromov norms for foliations
    Title: Useful branched surfaces which carry nothing
    
32. Yale Topology seminar, September 21 2000;
    Title: Useful branched surfaces which carry nothing
    
33. Harvard Riemann surfaces seminar, October 11, 18 2000;
    Title: Circles and hyperbolic geometry I
    Title: Circles and hyperbolic geometry II
    
34. Harvard Gauge theory and Topology seminar, October 20 2000;
    Title: Promoting essential laminations
    
35. U Chicago Geometry/Topology seminar, October 26 2000;
    Title: Useful branched surfaces which carry nothing
    
36. pre-AMS-meeting mini-conference, Barnard College, November 3 2000;
    Title: Useful branched surfaces which carry nothing
    
37. Caltech Department Colloquium, January 16 2001;
    Title: Foliations, circles, and the geometry of 3-manifolds
    
38. Brown University Topology seminar, February 28 2001;
    Title: Commensurability of 1-cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds
    
39. Boston College Topology seminar, April 4 2001;
    Title: Commensurability of 1-cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds
    
40. Talk at the Cornell Topology festival, May 4-6 2001:
    Title: Promoting essential laminations
    
41. Talk at the Georgia International Topology conference, May 20-June 2 2001;
    Title: Promoting essential laminations
    
42. Talk at 3-manifold Topology conference at CRM Montreal, June 25-29 2001;
    Title: Promoting essential laminations
    
43. Talk at AMS-SMF joint meeting, Ecole Normale Lyon, July 17-20 2001;
    Title: Promoting essential laminations
    
44. Minicourse at Foliations and Geometry 2001, PUC, Rio de Janeiro, August 2-11 2001;
    Title: Essential laminations of hyperbolic manifolds
    
45. Oberwolfach meeting on Topology, September 9-15 2001;
    Title: Hyperbolic manifolds and actions on circles
    
46. Rice Department Colloquium, October 11 2001;
    Title: Hyperbolic manifolds without taut foliations
    
47. Harvard Gauge theory and Topology seminar, February 15 2002;
    Title: Bounded cochains on 3-manifolds
    
48. Columbia Topology seminar, March 8 2002;
    Title: Bounded cochains on 3-manifolds
    
49. Yale Topology seminar, March 28 2002;
    Title: Laminations and groups of homeomorphisms of the circle
    
50. Princeton mathematics department lecture series, April 15-19 2002;
    Title: Laminations and groups of homeomorphisms of the circle I
    Title: Laminations and groups of homeomorphisms of the circle II
    Title: Bounded cochains on 3-manifolds
    
51. Melbourne University Topology Seminar, June 24 2002;
    Title: Laminations and groups of homeomorphisms of the circle
    
52. Plenary talk at Geometric Topology conference, Shaanxi Normal University China August 12-16 2002;
    Title: Bounded cochains on 3-manifolds
    
53. BATS at Berkeley, October 15 2002;
    Title: Bounded cochains on 3-manifolds
    
54. Berkeley Topology Seminar, October 16 2002;
    Title: Every 3-manifold is a BG
    
55. Berkeley Geometric Group Theory Seminar, October 18 2002;
    Title: Laminations and groups of homeomorphisms of the circle
    
56. AMS conference at Salt Lake City, Utah, October 26-27 2002;
    Title: Bounded cochains on 3-manifolds
    
57. UBC Department Colloquium, November 22 2002;
    Title: Foliations and pseudo-Anosov packages
    
58. Lecture series at Seoul National University, February 18-23 2003;
    Title: Universal circles for taut foliations
    Title: Monotone maps and pseudo-Anosov packages
    Title: Bending laminations and pinching laminations
    
59. Pomona college Topology seminar, March 25 2003;
    Title: Planar groups and circular groups
    
60. UC Santa Barbara Topology seminar, April 1 2003;
    Title: Planar groups and circular groups
    
61. University of Arkansas spring lecture series invited speaker, April 10-12 2003;
    Title: Planar groups and circular groups
    
62. Cassonfest University of Austin, Texas, May 19-21 2003;
    Title: Planar groups and circular groups
    
63. Jim Cannon's 60th birthday conference; Park City Utah, June 9-14 2003;
    Title: Planar groups and circular groups
    
64. Conference on topology, plenary speaker ANU Canberra, July 14-25 2003;
    Title: Foliations and asymptotic geometry
    Title: Laminations and groups of homeomorphisms of the circle
    Title: Planar groups and circular groups
    
65. University of Chicago Geometry/Topology seminar, October 14 2003;
    Title: Analysis and bounded cohomology of groups acting on the plane
    
66. UIC Department Colloquium, October 17 2003;
    Title: Foliations and dynamics in low dimensions
    
67. UIC Geometry, Topology and Dynamics seminar, October 20 2003;
    Title: 101 Loose ends in the theory of planar groups
    
68. Northwestern Dynamical Systems seminar, October 21 2003;
    Title: Loose ends in the theory of planar groups
    
69. Caltech Geometry+Topology Seminar, January 9 2004;
    Title: Dynamical forcing of circular groups
    
70. Princeton Topology Seminar, March 23 2004;
    Title: Dynamical forcing for circular groups
    
71. Princeton Topology Seminar, March 25 2004;
    Title: Homological Classification of Surface group actions on the Plane
    
72. Caltech Geometry+Topology Seminar, April 16 2004;
    Title: The Euler class of groups acting on the plane
    
73. Talk at Trends in 3-manifolds conference at CIRGET Montreal, May 2 2004;
    Title: Quasigeodesic flows and universal circles
    
74. Caltech Geometry+Topology Seminar, May 7 2004;
    Title: Quasigeodesic flows and universal circles
    
75. Public talk at Caltech Alumni Seminar Day, Caltech May 15 2004;
    Title: 3-manifolds, Tessellations, and the Million Dollar Question
    
76. Talk at KOOK international conference, Awajijima, July 8 2004;
    Title: Homological Classification of Surface group actions on the Plane
    
77. Topology Seminar at Nara Women's University, Nara, July 16 2004;
    Title: Universal circles for foliations, laminations, flows
    
78. Topology Seminar at Tohoku University, Sendai, July 21 2004;
    Title: Dynamical forcing of circular groups
    
79. Topology Seminar at Tohoku University, Sendai, July 21 2004;
    Title: Universal circles for quasigeodesic flows
    
80. Plenary talk at 48th annual meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, RMIT Melbourne September 28 2004;
    Title: Shrinkwrapping, and the classification of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
    
81. Talk at Teachers' Day seminar, RMIT Melbourne September 29 2004;
    Title: 3-Manifolds, Tessellations, and the Million dollar problem
    
82. University of Melbourne Department Colloquium, October 6 2004;
    Title: Circular groups, Planar groups and the Euler class
    
83. University of Melbourne Topology Seminar, October 6 2004;
    Title: Minimal surfaces and shrinkwrapping
    
84. UIC Geometry Seminar, October 18 2004;
    Title: Dynamical forcing of circular groups
    
85. University of Chicago Geometry/Topology Seminar, October 19 2004;
    Title: Low dimensional dynamics I
    
86. University of Chicago Geometry/Topology Seminar, October 28 2004;
    Title: Low dimensional dynamics II
    
87. University of Chicago Department Colloquium, October 29 2004;
    Title: Shrinkwrapping, and the classification of Kleinian groups
    
88. University of Chicago Geometry/Topology Seminar, November 10 2004;
    Title: Quasigeodesic flows on hyperbolic 3-manifolds
    
89. Northwestern Dynamics Seminar, November 11 2004;
    Title: Euler classes of planar groups
    
90. Stanford Geometry Seminar, December 1 2004;
    Title: Shrinkwrapping, and the taming of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
    
91. UC Davis Geometry/Topology seminar, January 19 2005;
    Title: Shrinkwrapping, and the taming of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
    
92. Ahlfors-Bers Colloquium, plenary speaker, May 19-22 2005;
    Title: Shrinkwrapping, and the taming of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
    
93. University of Melbourne Topology Seminar, August 1 2005;
    Title: Distortion in transformation groups
    
94. Public lecture at Swinburne College, August 18 2005;
    Title: Continued fractals
    
95. Rice Department Colloquium, September 8 2005;
    Title: Shrinkwrapping, and the taming of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
    
96. Pomona college Topology seminar, October 25 2005;
    Title: Distortion in transformation groups
    
97. Partially hyperbolic dynamics, laminations, and Teichmuller flow workshop at the Fields Institute, Toronto, January 5 2006;
    Title: Quasigeodesic flows on hyperbolic 3-manifolds
    
98. UCLA Department Colloquium, January 12 2006;
    Title: Shrinkwrapping and the taming of hyperolic 3-manifolds
    
99. Manifolds in Melbourne, Conference at University of Melbourne, January 17-20 2006;
    Title: Real places and torus bundles
    
100. Austin Mathematics Department Topology Seminar, February 8 2006;
     Title: Distortion in transformation groups
     
101. Austin Mathematics Department Topology Seminar, Feburary 13 2006;
     Title: Real places and torus bundles
     
102. MSU special RTG lecture, April 4 2006;
     Title: Shrinkwrapping and the taming of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
     
103. MSU Topology Seminar, April 5 2006;
     Title: Real places and torus bundles
     
104. Georgia Topology Conference, May 17-21 2006;
     Title: Length and stable length
     
105. Meeting at Oberwolfach, July 23-29 2006;
     Title: Length and stable length
     
106. University of Melbourne Topology Seminar, August 7 2006;
     Title: Length and stable length
     
107. Stanford Geometry Seminar, November 14 2006;
     Title: Length and stable length
     
108. UC Riverside Department Colloquium, November 15 2006;
     Title: Shrinkwrapping, and the taming of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
     
109. Austin Mathematics Department Topology Seminar, December 18 2006;
     Title: Length and stable length
     
110. Minicourse (4 lectures) at Conference held at Independent University of Moscow, February 19-23 2007;
     Title: Hyperbolic 3-manifolds, tameness, and Ahlfors' measure conjecture
     
111. Penn State Center for Dynamics and Geometry Colloquium, February 28 2007;
     Title: Quasigeodesic flows on 3-manifolds
     
112. Penn State Department Colloquium, March 1 2007;
     Title: Shrinkwrapping and the classification of Kleinian groups
     
113. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Topology Seminar, May 9 2007;
     Title: Real places and torus bundles
     
114. Cornell Topology Conference, May 21-24 2007;
     Title: Curvature and stable commutator length
     
115. Melbourne University Topology Seminar, June 6 2007;
     Title: Word length in surface groups with characteristic generating sets
     
116. Melbourne University Topology Seminar, June 8 2007;
     Title: Combable functions, quasimorphisms and the central limit theorem
     
117. University of Tokyo Topology Seminar, July 10 2007;
     Title: Combable functions, quasimorphisms and the central limit theorem
     
118. Hiroshima University Topology/Geometry Seminar, July 31 2007;
     Title: Combable functions, quasimorphisms and the central limit theorem
     
119. Paul Schweitzer's 70th birthday Conference, PUC Rio de Janeiro, August 6-10 2007;
     Title: Combable functions, quasimorphisms and the central limit theorem
     
120. Lars Ahlfors Centennial Celebration, University of Helsinki, August 20-24 2007;
     Title: Positivity of the universal pairing, and the topological Cauchy-Schwarz Theorem
     
121. Osaka City University Symposium on Intelligence of Low Dimensional Topology, August 29-September 1 2007;
     Title: Positivity of the universal pairing, and the topological Cauchy-Schwarz Theorem
     
122. Akita University; Topology and Computers 2007 Conference, September 5-7 2007;
     Title: Combable functions, quasimorphisms and the central limit theorem
     
123. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Topology Seminar, September 12 2007;
     Title: Positivity of the universal pairing, and the topological Cauchy-Schwarz Theorem
     
124. Invited address at Fall annual meeting of the Japanese Mathematical Society, September 21-24 2007;
     Title: Positivity of the universal pairing, and the topological Cauchy-Schwarz Theorem
     
125. Encounter with Mathematics, September 28-29 2007;
     Title: Euler classes of surface group actions on the plane
     
126. Categorically Not, October 28 2007;
     Title: Inside Out
     
127. Topics in Teichmuller Theory and Kleinian Groups, MSRI, November 12-16 2007;
     Title: Positivity of the universal pairing in 3 dimensions, and the topological Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
     
128. USC Department Colloquium, January 23 2008;
     Title: Positivity of the universal pairing in 3 dimensions, and the topological Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
     
129. Caltech Geometry and Topology Seminar, January 25 2008;
     Title: Positivity of the universal pairing in 3 dimensions, and the topological Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
     
130. Cornell Topology and Geometric Group Theory Seminar, February 5 2008;
     Title: Stable commutator length is rational in free groups
     
131. Cornell Department Colloquium, February 7 2008;
     Title: Unitary TQFTs and the topological Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
     
132. G3 conference March 20-23 2008;
     Title: Stable commutator length is rational in free groups
     Title: Combable functions, quasimorphisms, and the central limit theorem
     
133. University of Chicago Topology Seminar July 9-10 2008;
     Title: Stable commutator length is rational in free groups
     Title: Combable functions, quasimorphisms, and the central limit theorem
     
134. Wasatch Topology Conference August 9-10 2008;
     Title: Stable commutator length is rational in free groups
     
135. The 4th William Rowan Hamilton Geometry and Topology Workshop August 28-30 2008;
     Title: Stable commutator length is rational in free groups
     
136. Oberwolfach meeting on Topology, September 7-13 2008;
     Title: Stable commutator length in free groups
     
137. ENS Lyon Seminaire interne, September 15 2008;
     Title: Combable functions, quasimorphisms and the central limit theorem
     
138. ENS Lyon Seminaire de geometrie et dynamique, September 17 2008;
     Title: Stable commutator length in free groups
     
139. CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar, November 20 2008;
     Title: Combable functions, quasimorphisms and the central limit theorem
     
140. Columbia Geometric Topology Seminar, November 21 2008;
     Title: Stable commutator length in free groups
     
141. Berkeley special Topology Seminar, December 9 2008;
     Title: Immersed surfaces with prescribed boundary
     
142. Berkeley Topology Seminar, December 10 2008;
     Title: Stable commutator length in free groups
     
143. Lecture series at Paris Ecole Polytechnique, March 30-31 2009;
     Title: Stable commutator length in free groups
     
144. Lille Topology Seminar, April 3 2009;
     Title: Positivity of the universal pairing in 3 dimensions
     
145. ETH Geometry Seminar, April 6 2009;
     Title: Scl, sails and surgery
     
146. ETH Geometry Seminar, April 22 2009;
     Title: Faces of the scl norm ball
     
147. Princeton Topology Seminar, May 7 2009;
     Title: Scl, sails and surgery
     
148. Georgia International Topology Conference, May 18-29 2009;
     Title: Scl, sails and surgery
     
149. 2009/10 Clay Lectures; Melbourne: July 23, August 3, 10, 14; Sydney: September 16, 18; Canberra: September 22, 24; Adelaide: September 25, 28 2009;
     Title: Surface subgroups from homology
     Title: Faces of the scl norm ball
     Title: Scl, sails and surgery
     
150. SUNY Stony Brook Department Colloquium, September 1 2009;
     Title: Faces of the scl norm ball
     
151. SUNY Stony Brook workshop, September 2 2009;
     Title: Stable commutator length in free groups
     
152. Nevanlinna Colloquium, Kyoto University, September 7-11 2009;
     Title: TBA
     
153. SUNY Buffalo Department Colloquium, October 16 2009;
     Title: TBA
     
154. Rice Texas Geometry and Topology Conference, November 6-8 2009;
     Title: TBA
     
155. AMS special session UC Riverside, November 7-8 2009;
     Title: TBA
     
156. Minicourse at University of Queensland workshop on Geometric Group Theory, December 14-18 2009;
     Title: TBA
     
157. Plenary lecture at AMS western sectional meeting UNM, April 17-18 2010;
     Title: TBA
     

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