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Hyperbolic orbifolds and topology of projective varieties

Geometry/Topology

Speaker: Michael Kapovich, UC Davis
Location: 2112 MSB
Start time: Tue, Apr 17 2012, 3:10PM

I will explain how to use 3-dimensional hyperbolic orbifolds for constructing irreducible projective varieties with prescribed finitely-presented fundamental groups.