Winter 2012 Wasatch Topology Conference
The Mathematics
departments of the University of
Utah and Brigham Young
University along with the National Science Foundation are
sponsoring the 31st
Semiannual Wasatch Topology
Conference to be held December 14th to 16th,
2012 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The conference is being
organized by Mladen Bestvina, Ken Bromberg, Greg Conner, Jessica
Purcell, Eric Swenson and Kevin Wortman.
All talks are in LCB
323 on the University of Utah campus.
Speakers
Yael Algom-Kfir, Yale
Mapping tori of small dilatation
automorphisms
Grigori Avramidi, U
of Chicago
Symmetries of aspherical manifolds
Jon Chaika, U of
Chicago
Quantitative shrinking targets for IETs
and rotations
Vaibhav Gadre,
Harvard
Word length statistics for Teichmüller
geodesics and singularity of harmonic measures
Eriko Hironaka,
Florida State
Quasi-periodic mapping classes
Ilya Kapovich, U of
Ilinois, Urbana Champaign
On the Cannon-Thurston map for hyperbolic
free-by-cyclic groups
Michelle Lee, U of
Maryland
Dynamics on the PSL(2, C)-character
variety of certain hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Sang
Rae Lee, Technion
Variation of Houghton's groups and its
applications
Ben McReynolds,
Purdue
Distinguishing metrics via spectral
properties
Justin Moore,
Cornell
Nonassociative Ramsey theory and the
amenability problem for Thompson's group
Kasra Rafi, U of
Toronto
Geometry of Teichmüller space
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 University Guesthouse
on the campus of the University of Utah. Participants should contact
the
organizers to reserve a room.
Past Conferences:
Winter 2011
Summer 2011
Winter 2010
Winter 2005
Spring 2005
Winter
2004
Spring 2004