27th Annual workshop in Geometric Topology June 10-12, 2010

Schedule of Presentations

SCHEDULE: The Workshop will begin with a continental breakfast at 8:00 am On Thursday June 10, and end around noon on Saturday June 12. An outing will be planned for Saturday afternoon/evening for those staying over. Below is the preliminary schedule (Revisions may follow).

Thursday, June 10th

 

8:15 - 8:55 AM

Coffee and chat --- Skilling Commons

 

8:55 - 9:00 AM

Announcements

 

9:00 - 10:00 AM

Robert Ghrist, Penn

Topology Applied I

 

10:15 - 10:40 AM

Chris Mooney, Michigan

The geometry of spheres in free abelian groups

 

10:45 - 11:10 AM

Chris Hruska, UWM

How to cubulate groups

 

11:15 - 11:40 AM

Jim Fowler, Ohio State

Rational PD Groups and Controlled Symmetric Signatures

 

11:45 - 1:15 PM

LUNCH

 

  1:30 - 1:55 PM

Carrie Tirel, UW-FV

Z-Structures on Product Groups

 

  2:00 - 2:25 PM

Lenny Rubin, Oklahoma

Universal Spaces in Cohomological Dimension Theory

 

  2:30 - 2:55 PM

Schroeder, Murray State

Weighted $L^2_q$-homology of Even Coxeter groups

 

 3:00 - 3:25  PM

Eric Swenson, BYU

On cyclic CAT(0) domains of discontinuity

 

 3:30 - 5:00 PM

Informal sessions

 

Friday, June 11th

 

8:15 - 8:55 AM

Coffee and chat --- Skilling Commons

 

8:55 - 9:00 AM

Announcements

 

9:00 - 10:00 AM

Robert Ghrist, Penn

Topology Applied II

 

10:15 - 10:40 AM

Craig Guilbault, UWM

Embedding the Plus Construction

10:45 - 11:10 AM

Denise Halverson, BYU

Local G-homogeneous Busemann G-spaces

 

11:15 - 11:40 AM

Wiktor Mogilski, UWM

Geometric Proofs of Discrete Four-Vertex Theorems

 

11:45 - 1:15 PM

LUNCH

 

  1:30 - 1:55 PM

Ric Ancel, UWM

Unknotable Sets

 

  2:00 - 2:25 PM

Eric Freden, S Utah

Growth in Baumslag-Solitar groups: Asymptotics

 

  2:30 - 2:55 PM

Greg Friedman

Additivity and non-additivity of perverse signatures

 

 3:00 - 3:25  PM

TBA

TBA

 

 3:30 - 5:00 PM

Informal sessions

 

Saturday, June 12th

 

8:15 - 9:00 AM

Coffee and chat --- Skilling Commons

 

8:55 - 9:00 AM

Announcements

 

9:00 - 10:00 AM

Robert Ghrist, Penn

Topology Applied III

 

10:15 - 10:40 AM

David Wright, BYU

The Whitehead Contractible 3-manifold

 

10:45 - 11:10 AM

Joao Nogueira

Incompressible surfaces in handlebodies and boundary reducible 3-manifolds

 

11:15 - 11:40 AM

Problem session

 

11:45 - 12:55 PM

LUNCH

 

1:00 PM

Outing for those staying over until Sunday