These are notes based on a series of talks that the author gave at the "Interactions between hyperbolic geometry and quantum groups" conference held at Columbia University in June of 2009.
The (twisted/$L^2$)-Alexander polynomial of ideally triangulated 3-manifolds
Four-free groups and hyperbolic geometry
Group rings and hyperbolic geometry
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