^.       INVITED TALKS:

2006

Teichmüller Space (Classical and Quantum),
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach,
May 28 to June 3, 2006
Time:9:00 a.m., Monday, May 29, 2006;
Place: Library
Speaker: John D. McCarthy;
Title: Simplicial representations of surface mapping class groups

Oberseminar Topologie, MPI, Bonn, Germany
Time:3:00 p.m., Monday, May 22, 2006;
Place: Hörsaal MPI, Vivatsgasse 7
Speaker: John D. McCarthy;
Title: On the action of the mapping class group on the arc complex

Oberseminar Differential Geometrie, MPI, Bonn, Germany
Time:4:30 p.m., Thursday, May 4, 2006;
Place: Hörsaal MPI, Vivatsgasse 7
Speaker: John D. McCarthy;
Title: On the actions of the mapping class group on the arc complex, the curve complex, and some other flag complexes

2005

Braids, links, and mapping class groups,
a conference in honor of Professor Joan Birman,
Columbia University, New York
Time:3:10 p.m., Thursday, March 17, 2005;
Place: 312 Mathematics Building
Speaker: John D. McCarthy;
Title: Automorphisms of the Complex of Separating Curves in Genus 3

2003

Topology Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Time:4:10 p.m., Friday, October 31, 2003;
Place: 3096 East Hall
Speaker: John D. McCarthy;
Title: Automorphisms of surface braid groups

SLU Colloquium, Southeastern Louisiana University
Time: 12:30 p.m., Thursday, November 20, 2003;
Place: 123 Fayard Hall
Speaker: John D. McCarthy;
Title: A different kind of geometry

SLU Topology Seminar, Southeastern Louisiana University
Time: 3:30 p.m., Friday, November 21, 2003;
Place: 325 Fayard Hall
Speaker: John D. McCarthy;
Title: Automorphisms of surface braid groups

2002

Geometry/Topology Seminar, University of Chicago, June 6, 2002
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: On the first cohomology group of cofinite subgroups in surface mapping class groups

Geometric Topology Seminar, Columbia University, November 1, 2002
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Automorphisms of surface braid groups

1996

Topology Seminar, Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France, June 10, 1996
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: On injective homomorphisms between Teichmuller modular groups

1992

Geometry Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 27, 1992
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: A gluing operation for symplectic manifolds

1987

Lecture delivered to the Topology Seminar State University of New York at Buffalo March 5, 1987
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Domains of discontinuity in projective lamination space

Lecture presented to the Conference on the "Geometry of group representations" American Mathematical Society Joint Summer Research Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences University of Colorado at Boulder July 5 to July 11, 1987.
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: An introduction to Casson's invariant for oriented homology 3-spheres

1986

Lectures delivered to the Topology Seminar Universite' Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France September, 1986
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: An introduction to Casson's invariant for oriented homology 3-spheres

1985

Lecture delivered to the Topology Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park April 22, 1985
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Pseudo-Anosov mapping classes

Lecture delivered to the Topology Seminar, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut April 30, 1985
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Pseudo-Anosov mapping classes

Lecture presented at the Michigan Topology Conference University of Michigan, Ann Arbor December 7, 1985
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: On certain linear representations of surface mapping class groups

1984

Lectures in Seminarraum, Max-Planck-Institut, Bonn, Germany November 14-15, 1984
Speaker: John D. McCarthy;
Title: Geometric structures on orbifolds - a theorem of Andreev

Lecture delivered at the Harder/Hirzebruch/Zagier Oberseminar Seminarraum, Max-Planck-Institut, Bonn, Germany November 29, 1984
Speaker: John D. McCarthy;
Title: Group theoretic properties of surface mapping class groups

Joint lectures with Jean-Pierre Otal delivered to the Kleines Colloquim - Differential Geometrie University of Bonn December 11, 1984 and December 18, 1984
Speaker: John D. McCarthy;
Title: Hyperbolic structures on polyhedra - after Andreev

1983

Lecture presented at the special session on "Surfaces and 3-Manifolds" 806th Meeting of the American Mathematical Society Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut October 28, 1983
Speaker: John D. McCarthy;
Title: Automorphisms of surface mapping class groups - a recent theorem of N. Ivanov

1982

Lecture presented at the special session on "Geometric Topology" 799th Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan, November 12-13, 1982
Speaker: John D. McCarthy;
Title: Free subgroups of surface mapping class groups

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