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Wasatch
Topology Conference
Monday, June 9
9-9:40: Danny Calegari, Caltech
Planar groups and circular groups
9:50-10:30: Jon McCammond, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Poset of Hypertrees and the - Betti Numbers
of $\ell^2$-betti numbers of $P\Sigma_n$
break
11-11:40: John Meier, Lafayette College
Cannon Pairs
11:50-12:30: Kai-Uwe Bux, Cornell University
Thompson's Group F is Maximal Non-Convex
lunch
2-2:40 Kevin Whyte, University of Illinois at Chicago
The theory of coarse fibrations
2:50-3:30 Steve Ferry, Rutgers University
Epsilon-delta surgery over Z
3:40-4:20 Sasha Dranishnikov, University of Florida
TBA
Tuesday, June 10
9-9:40 Daniel Biss, University of Chicago
Decomposing, Out(F_n)
9:50-10:30 Jason Manning, University of California, Santa Barbara
Pseudocharacters on groups and quasi-actions on
trees
break
11-11:40 Inna Bumagin, McGill University
TBA
11:50-12:30 Eric Swenson, Brigham Young University
TBA
lunch
2-2:40 Kim Ruane, Tufts University
TBA
2:50-3:30 Joseph Maher, Caltech
Period three actions on the 3-sphere
3:40-4:20 Tim Riley, Yale
Planar graphs, duality and filling functions for
groups
Wednesday, June 11
9-9:40 Daryl Cooper, University of California, Santa Barbara
A combination theorem for Kleinian groups
9:50-10:30 Ben Klaff, University of Illinois, Chicago
TBA
break
11-11:40 Emina Alibegovic, University of Utah
Makanin-Razborov diagrams for limit groups
11:50-12:30 Walter Parry, Eastern Michigan University
TBA
lunch
Cannonfest
General Interest Talks
2-2:50 Ric Ancel University of Wisconsin, A brief
history of geometric topology
3-3:50 Bill Floyd Virginia Polytechnic, Shapes of
tiles
4-4:50 John McCammond UC Santa Barbara, Finding
parking when not commuting
5-5:50Michael Starbird University of Texas, Austin, Shallow
Enticements to Deep Ideas: Bringing Mathematics to the Masses
7 pm Banquet at Yarrow Hotel
Workshop in Geometric Topology
Thursday, June 12
9-10 Martin Bridson
break
10:30-10:45 Bob Daverman, University of Tennessee,
Fibrator Properties of Manifolds determined by their
Fundamental Groups
10:55-11:10 Eric Freden, Southern Utah University
TBA
11:20-11:35Craig Guilbault, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Compactifying Manifolds with Boundary
11:45-12:00 Frederick C. Tinsley, Colorado College
Do tame ends of manifolds have semi-stable second
homotopy groups?
lunch break
1:10-1:25 Daniel Biss, University of Chicago
A core dump on the stable homology of Aut(F_n)
1:35-1:50 Inna Bumagin, McGill University
On the coherence of coherent-by-cyclic groups
2:00-2:15 Kelly Delp, UC Santa Barbara
Almost periodic flows and hyperbolic 3-manifolds
2:25-2:40 Reva Kasman, Grand Valley State University
BNS Invariants and the Initial Tree
2:50-3:05 Steve Humphries, Brigham Young University
Actions of mapping class groups on rings
Friday, June 13
9-10 Martin Bridson
break
10:30-10:45 Anton Kaul, Tufts University
Finite Split Extensions of Right-Angled Coxeter
Groups
10:55-11:10 John Ratcliffe, Vanderbilt University
Hyperbolic 5-manifolds of finite volume
11:20-11:35 Tadek Dobrowolski Pittsburg State University
On the topology and geometry of $L_Z^2$
11:45-12:00 Andreas Zastrow Univ. of Gdansk, Poland
On the (Non-)Uniqueness of Cartesian Products of
surfaces
lunch break
1:10-1:25 Hanspeter Fischer Ball State University
The fundamental groups of subsets of closed surfaces
inject into their first shape groups
1:35-1:50 Julia Wilson SUNY Fredonia
The Croke and Kleiner boundaries really are distinct
2:00-2:15 Ben Woodruff Brigham Young University
On Psuedo n-manifolds
2:25-2:40 Tom Thickstun Southwest Texas State University
The 3D Resolution Conjecture: Ideas and Notions
Saturday, June 14
9-10 Martin Bridson
break
10:30 problem session
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