The Mathematics departments of the University of Utah and Brigham Young University along with the National Science Foundation are sponsoring the Twenty-seventh Semiannual Wasatch Topology Conference to be held December 13th and 14th in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The conference is being organized by Mladen Bestvina, Ken Bromberg, Greg Conner and Kevin Wortman.
Tom Church (U of
Chicago)
Groups of mapping classes that cannot
be realized by diffeomorphisms
Matt
Clay (U of Oklahoma)
Twisting out fully irreducible
automorphisms
Alex Eskin (U of
Chicago)
Counting closed geodesics in strata
Ilya
Kapovich (U of IL, Urbana-Champaign)
Schottki-type subgroups of Out(F_N)
All talks are in JWB 335
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 on the campus of the University of Utah. Participants should contact the Guest House directly to reserve a room:
http://www.guesthouse.utah.edu
801-587-1000
1-888-416-4075
Past conferences:
Spring 2004
Winter 2004
Spring 2005
Winter 2005
Summer 2006
Summer 2007
Summer 2008