Winter 2011 Wasatch Topology Conference
The Mathematics
departments of the University of
Utah and Brigham Young
University along with the National Science Foundation are
sponsoring the 30th
Semiannual Wasatch Topology
Conference to be held December 15th
and 16th,
2011 in Kimball Junction, Utah.
The conference is being
organized by Mladen Bestvina, Ken Bromberg, Greg Conner, Jessica
Purcell, Eric Swenson and Kevin Wortman.
Speakers
Will Cavendish,
Princeton
Finite-sheeted covers of 3-manifolds and
the Cohomology of Solenoids
Jeff Danciger,
U of Texas
A geometric transition from hyperbolic to
AdS geometry
David Dumas, UIC
Real and complex boundaries in the
character variety
Tullia Dymarz, U of
Wisconsin
Rigidity and enveloping discrete groups by
locally compact groups
Ilya Kapovich, UIUC
On spectrally rigid subsets of free groups
Robert Young,
U of Toronto
Higher-order filling functions in solvable
groups
Abstracts
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 Newpark
Resort in Kimball Junction. Participants should contact the
organizers to reserve a room.
Room
rates are:
Deluxe room: $89/night
Luxury suite: $119/night
Past Conferences:
Summer 2011
Winter 2010
Winter 2005
Spring 2005
Winter
2004
Spring 2004