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2005

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Monday, March 21, 2005;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: John D. McCarthy;
Title: Automorphisms of the complex of separating curves in genus 3. I

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Monday, March 28, 2005;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: John D. McCarthy;
Title: Automorphisms of the complex of separating curves in genus 3, II

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Monday, April 4, 2005;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: John D. McCarthy;
Title: Automorphisms of the complex of separating curves in genus 3, III

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Monday, April 11, 2005;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: John D. McCarthy;
Title: Automorphisms of the complex of separating curves in genus 3, IV

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Monday, April 18, 2005;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: John D. McCarthy;
Title: Commutators in the extended mapping class group, I

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Monday, May 2, 2005;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: John D. McCarthy;
Title: Commutators in the extended mapping class group, II

2004

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Monday, February 2, 2004;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: John D. McCarthy;
Title: Homomorphisms from mapping class groups, I (according to Harvey-Korkmaz)

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Monday, February 9, 2004;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: John D. McCarthy;
Title: Homomorphisms from mapping class groups, II (according to Harvey-Korkmaz)

2003

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Monday, September 29;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: John D. McCarthy;
Title: Automorphisms of surface braid groups, I

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Monday, October 6;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: John D. McCarthy;
Title: Automorphisms of surface braid groups, II

2001

Gauge Theory
Time: 4:10 p.m., Wednesday, October 17;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: The Donaldson - Smith paper: Lefschetz pencils and standard surfaces, I

Gauge Theory
Time: 4:10 p.m., Wednesday, October 24;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: The Donaldson - Smith paper: Lefschetz pencils and standard surfaces, II

1999

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Monday, December 6;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Twisted symplectic products of the circle and 3-manifolds, II (joint with Wladek Lorek)

1998

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Monday, October 12;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: On the asphericity of a symplectic M³ x S¹, I

Symplectic Geometry
Time: 4:10 p.m., Tuesday, October 13;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: On the asphericity of a symplectic M³ x S¹, II

1997

Symplectic Geometry
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 p.m., Thursday, March 13;
Place A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Constructions of Symplectic Manifolds - Symington

Gauge Theory
Time: 4:10 p.m., Wednesday, March 26;
Place A-517 Wells Hall
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Symington's construction of symplectic manifolds

Symplectic Geometry
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 p.m., Thursday, April 10;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Symington's 3-fold sums and rational blowdown

PI MU EPSILON (Mathematics Honor Society)
Time: 5:10 - 6:00 p.m., Thursday, April 17;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: A different kind of geometry Abstract: The talk (about Symplectic Geometry) is sponsored by PME and the math department and is specifically for undergraduates.

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Monday, September 22;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: The mapping class group, Teichmuller spaces, and Gromov hyperbolicity, I

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Monday, September 29;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: The mapping class group, Teichmuller spaces, and Gromov hyperbolicity, II

1994

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Mondays, Spring 1994;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: On injective homomorphisms between Teichmuller modular groups, lectures on joint work with Nikolai Ivanov

1993

Nonlinear Analysis and Symplectic Topology
Time: 4:10 p.m., Tuesdays, Spring 1993;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Symplectic normal connect sum, lectures on joint work with Jon Wolfson

Nonlinear Analysis and Symplectic Topology
Time: 4:10 p.m., Tuesdays, Fall 1993;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Symplectic gluing along hypersurfaces, lectures on joint work with Jon Wolfson

1991

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Mondays, Spring 1991;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: On Witten's 3-manifold Invariants, after Kevin Walker, lectures on work of Kevin Walker

1990

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Mondays, Spring 1990;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Hopf algebras and braided categories, lectures on background material on Hopf algebras for the study of the recent 3-manifold invariants of Reshetikhin-Turaev

Gauge Theory
Time: 4:10 p.m., Wednesday, Fall 1990;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: The space of conjugacy classes of SO(3)-representations of a 3-torus

1989

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Mondays, Fall 1989;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Automorphisms of complexes of curves and Teichmuller spaces - lectures on work of Nikolai Ivanov

1987

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Mondays, October 7;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Casson's Invariant for homology 3-spheres, I

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Mondays, October 12;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Casson's Invariant for homology 3-spheres, II

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Mondays, October 19;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Casson's Invariant for homology 3-spheres, III

1986

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Mondays, Spring 1986;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Poincare conjecture - series of joint lectures with the members of the Topology Seminar on an alleged proof of the Poincare Conjecture due to Colin Rourke and Eduardo Rego

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Mondays, Fall 1986;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Discontinuous actions in projective lamination space

Colloquium
Time: 4:10 p.m., Thursday, Fall 1986;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Discontinuous actions in projective lamination space

1985

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Mondays, Fall 1985;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Casson's Invariant for Homology 3-Spheres - series of joint lectures with Selman Akbulut on work of Andrew Casson

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Monday, October 22;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Automorphisms of surface mapping class groups, I

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Monday, October 29;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Automorphisms of surface mapping class groups, II

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Monday, November 5;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Abelian and solvable subgroups of surface mapping class groups, I

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Monday, November 12;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Abelian and solvable subgroups of surface mapping class groups, II

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:10 p.m., Mondays, Winter 1985-1986;
Place: A-304 Wells Hall, Michigan State University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Hyperbolic structures on branched covers of three-manifolds - series of lectures on a theorem of Robert Brooks

1983

Topology Seminar
Time: 4:30 p.m., Thursday, May 12, 1983;
Place: 507 Mathematics, Columbia University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Free subgroups of surface mapping class groups (thesis defense)

1982

Topology Seminar
Time: 1:15 p.m., Fridays, Spring 1982;
Place: 507 Mathematics, Columbia University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Abelian and solvable subgroups of the mapping class group, joint work with J. S. Birman and A. Lubotzky

Topology Seminar
Time: 1:15 p.m., Friday, November 5, 1982;
Place: 507 Mathematics, Columbia University
Speaker: J. McCarthy;
Title: Free subgroups of surface mapping class groups

Last revised 3/12/10

John D. McCarthy