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The 24th Annual
Workshop in Geometric Topology
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan |
The following schedule is tentative and will be updated as the time of the workshop approaches.
All talks will take place in Room 110 of the Science Building on the Calvin College campus. See the campus map for location of the Science Building. Click on the title of a talk to see an abstract (pdf). Click here to download a printable one-page schedule.
| Time | Speaker | Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 6:30 - 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast at the Prince Center | |
| 8:15 - 8:55 a.m. | Registration and Refreshments | |
| 8:55 - 9:00 a.m. | Welcome | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. | Ian Agol | Survey on volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds |
| 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. | Break | |
| 10:30 - 10:50 a.m. | Eric Swenson | Constraints on the size of the Tits boundary of a CAT(0) group |
| 11:00 - 11:20 a.m. | Christopher Mooney | Examples of non-rigid CAT(0) groups from the category of knot groups |
| 11:30 - 11:50 a.m. | Tim Schroeder | On the Singer conjecture for Coxeter groups |
| 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch | |
| 1:30 - 1:50 p.m. | Robert Daverman | Conditions under which a sewing of crumpled n-cubes yields Sn |
| 2:00 - 2:20 p.m. | Kei Nakamura | Fox re-embedding and Bing submanifolds |
| 2:30 - 2:50 p.m. | Leonard Rubin | Absolute co-extensors and inverse limits |
| 3:00 - 3:30 p.m. | Break | |
| 3:30 - 3:50 p.m. | Violeta Vasilevska | Shape msimpl orientable fibrators |
| 4:00 - 4:20 p.m. | Tadeusz Dobrowolski | A Polish AR-space with no nontrivial flow |
| 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. | Free time | |
| 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. | Supper at the Venema's, 2637 Golfridge Drive SE. (Click here for map.) | |
| Time | Speaker | Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 6:30 - 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast at the Prince Center | |
| 8:30 - 8:55 a.m. | Registration and Refreshments | |
| 8:55 - 9:00 a.m. | Announcements | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. | Ian Agol | Finiteness of arithmetic hyperbolic reflection groups |
| 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. | Break | |
| 10:30 - 10:50 a.m. | Shawn Rafalski | Immersed turnovers in hyperbolic 3-orbifolds |
| 11:00 - 11:20 a.m. | Christopher Atkinson | Volume estimates for ideal hyperbolic polyhedra |
| 11:30 - 11:50 a.m. | Roberto Pelayo | The complex of minimal genus Seifert surfaces for hyperbolic knots |
| 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch | |
| 1:30 - 1:50 p.m. | Robert Edwards | A colinking property of ENR's in Menger manifolds |
| 2:00 - 2:20 p.m. | Denise Halverson | Detecting codimension one manifold factors with the plentiful piecewise embedded disks property |
| 2:30 - 2:50 p.m. | Craig Guilbault | Group actions on manifolds and complexes |
| 3:00 - 3:30 p.m. | Break | |
| 3:30 - 3:50 p.m. | Dubravko Ivanšic | Converting side-pairings to handle-decompositions |
| 4:00 - 4:20 p.m. | John Ratcliffe | Chordal Coxeter groups |
| 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. | Free time | |
| 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. | Dinner in the Willow Room East, Prince Center | |
| Time | Speaker | Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 6:30 - 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast at the Prince Center | |
| 8:30 - 8:55 a.m. | Refreshments | |
| 8:55 - 9:00 a.m. | Announcements | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. | Ian Agol | Applications of Kleinian groups to 3-manifold topology |
| 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. | Break | |
| 10:30 - 10:50 a.m. | Eduardo Martinez-Pedroza | Combination theorems for quasiconvex subgroups of relatively hyperbolic groups |
| 11:00 - 11:20 a.m. | Chris Judge | The arithmetic of pseudo-Anosov mapping classes |
| 11:30 - 11:50 a.m. | Fred Tinsley | Strategies for characterizing tame ends of manifolds |
| 12:00 - 12:30 p.m. | Problem Session | |
| 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. | Lunch | |
| 2:30 - 10:30 p.m. | Outing to Saugatuck and Holland (weather permitting) | |