Summer
2006 Wasatch Topology Conference
The Mathematics
departments of the University of
Utah and Brigham Young University
along with the National Science Foundation are sponsoring the
Twenty-third Semiannual Wasatch Topology Conference to be held August 1
to August 4, 2006 in Park City, Utah.
The conference is
being organized by Mladen Bestvina, Ken Bromberg and
Greg Conner.
Speakers
Peter Brinkmann,
CUNY
Algorithmically improving train tracks
Tullia Dymarz, U of Chicago
Tukia's theorem and boundary theory for
solvable groups
Anna
Lenzhen, UIC
Teichmuller geodesics that do not have a
limit in PMF
Lars Louder, U of UT
Accessibility of Limit Groups
Soren Galatius, Stanford
Stable homology of automorphisms of free
groups
Howard Masur, UIC
Ergodic theory of translation surfaces
Alexandra Pettet,
U of Chicago
Cohomology of some subgroups of the
automorphism groups of the free group
Ben Schmidt, U
of MI
Blocking light in compact Riemannian
manifolds
Juan Souto, U of
Chicago
Heegard splittings and minimal surfaces
Kevin
Wortman, Yale
A finitely-presented solvable group with
a small quasi-isometry group
Unipotent flows on moduli space for genus 2
If you are
interested
in attending the conference please
contact the organizers at wtc@math.utah.edu.
Some funding is
available for graduate students and post-docs. Those interested should
also contact the organizers at wtc@math.utah.edu.
The conference will
be held at the Treasure Mountain Inn on Main St. in downtown Park City.
Participants should contact the Inn directly to reserve a room:
Winter
2004
Spring 2004
