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).
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Thursday, June 10th |
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8:15 - 8:55 AM |
Coffee and chat ---
Skilling Commons |
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8:55 - 9:00 AM |
Announcements |
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9:00 - 10:00 AM |
Robert Ghrist,
Penn |
Topology Applied I |
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10:15 - 10:40 AM |
Chris Mooney, |
The geometry of spheres in
free abelian groups |
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10:45 - 11:10 AM |
Chris Hruska,
UWM |
How to cubulate
groups |
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11:15 - 11:40 AM |
Jim Fowler, |
Rational PD Groups and
Controlled Symmetric Signatures |
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11:45 - 1:15 PM |
LUNCH |
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1:30 - 1:55 PM |
Carrie Tirel,
UW-FV |
Z-Structures on Product
Groups |
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2:00 - 2:25 PM |
Lenny Rubin, |
Universal Spaces in Cohomological Dimension Theory |
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2:30 - 2:55 PM |
Schroeder, |
Weighted $L^2_q$-homology
of Even Coxeter groups |
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3:00
- 3:25 PM |
Eric Swenson, BYU |
On cyclic CAT(0) domains of
discontinuity |
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3:30 - 5:00 PM |
Informal sessions |
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Friday, June 11th |
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8:15 - 8:55 AM |
Coffee and chat ---
Skilling Commons |
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8:55 - 9:00 AM |
Announcements |
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9:00 - 10:00 AM |
Robert Ghrist,
Penn |
Topology Applied II |
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10:15 - 10:40 AM |
Craig Guilbault, UWM |
Embedding the Plus
Construction |
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10:45 - 11:10 AM |
Denise Halverson, BYU |
Local
G-homogeneous Busemann G-spaces |
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11:15 - 11:40 AM |
Wiktor Mogilski, UWM |
Geometric Proofs of
Discrete Four-Vertex Theorems |
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11:45 - 1:15 PM |
LUNCH |
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1:30 - 1:55 PM |
Ric Ancel, UWM |
Unknotable Sets |
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2:00 - 2:25 PM |
Eric Freden,
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Growth in Baumslag-Solitar groups: Asymptotics |
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2:30 - 2:55 PM |
Greg Friedman |
Additivity and non-additivity of
perverse signatures |
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3:00
- 3:25 PM |
TBA |
TBA |
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3:30 - 5:00 PM |
Informal sessions |
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Saturday, June 12th |
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8:15 - 9:00 AM |
Coffee and chat ---
Skilling Commons |
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8:55 - 9:00 AM |
Announcements |
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9:00 - 10:00 AM |
Robert Ghrist,
Penn |
Topology Applied III |
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10:15 - 10:40 AM |
David Wright, BYU |
The Whitehead Contractible
3-manifold |
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10:45 - 11:10 AM |
Joao Nogueira |
Incompressible surfaces in handlebodies and boundary reducible 3-manifolds |
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11:15 - 11:40 AM |
Problem session |
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11:45 - 12:55 PM |
LUNCH |
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1:00 PM |
Outing for those staying
over until Sunday |
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